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Mezzanine

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I am i said pursued by the feeling of being watched.You are she said -- by yourself. As in a dream, a dream you know you're dreaming. Which changes nothing.We are she said watching from the mezzanine, half-above, at once a part and apart.

Driving at Night

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Some of the Time I Am There

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is just- well idk....

Please Don't Love Me

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Lester Young, Grand Daddy of Cool

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Young is credited with the first use of “cool” as a expression of approval, and he embodied the concept in his life and in his playing. His only problem was he was born too soon, in 1909.

Hemingway for Gloria

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He disliked intrusion and very specifically innocuous intrusion, nice guys, one might say, those who tried to be near him to learn something from him or who admired him but who, as in that passage, came merely to disturb his work.

Orson Welles & Peter Bogdanovich Shop For Tomatoes

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26. Dragonflies

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in my dream I was grasping / the cellophane silk / of their wings

The Ringlet: Part II

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Ashford Garth Willingsham IV stood looking out at the Gulf of Mexico from his mansion on Longboat Key. In his right hand was a letter from his divorce lawyer, Reynard Foxx...

Two Hundred Miles

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Why I Don’t Drink

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He had that kind of connection / with his cocktails, intimate / sort of like a boy and his dog. // Cocktails have in any case / saved him from the bottom / of many dark wells. /

Rx

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He tips the last pill into his mouth. Tower bells begin to chime. Swallows unlatch from a trellis and flutter into the square, peck at crumbs around the fountain. A woman reaches into her carpet bag and pulls out a handful of teeth, tosses them to the birds. They crunch…

Mother Tender

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Rain brings you back June and blooming darkness looming behind summer ahead sticky green and hot air in nostrils you pick me up each last day of school humidity hanging after the June shower, polka dotted umbrella, I let go of once to see it…

Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley Present: 'P.I.S.S.: The Reunion Tour'

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['BOOBLESS' CAN BE SPELLED ON A CALCULATOR IF YOU TYPE IN '55378008' AND HOLD IT UPSIDE-DOWN!]

Snake Eyes

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Traveling with a live chicken on a city bus is an experience I hope never to repeat.

Beware the Armed Man

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who wears his knife on his tongue.

An Exercise in Obstacle Course Writing

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There's a commercial I have seen a few times for a television show on HBO about people who collect things. Their collections, as evident from the ads, are serious. These people have somehow managed to hold onto a lot of stuff. ‘There are a lot of really…

Fabulous Bird

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Just let there be that self-moving thing, a sweet girl mentioned by innocence in an off moment because of her skin, because of the way rain beads up on it.

Message in a Bottle

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She eventually learned everyone had their own truth, and some of them were not true at all.

Restland,

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He died a printer finding late/ after so much selling himself selling/ a craft that pleased and paid enough

Autocorrect loves u

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Best hex ever.

The Oscillating Escalator, 2011

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We can imagine an escalator as being a (conveyor) belt between two different states of consciousness. On the one hand (beginning or end, depending on how you see it) the lower (or higher) level, and on the other hand a progression or pro-‘motion’ of the f

The Skull Beneath the Skin

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"Your father is in the emergency room. You should come."

Technique

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Killzone Excerpt: The Island (Day 128)

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He went to sleep that night with one thought. He said it aloud, to make sure the island heard as well. Cuddled into his tarp and weeds, he whispered, "When you need me, I'll be ready."

Cold

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I told her I didn't love her. She said love wasn't important; she wanted to marry a man she could respect.

This is how I'd like to remember you

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You became drunk rather quickly, which stands to reason since you eat so little. You set the pace by drinking two, sometimes three drinks, to my single beverage, and when I finished my drink you'd hand me yours. You didn't know it but I would usually abandon your cast off…

Do I hear Ten Thousand?

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I cannot begin to list all the ways this conversation can go downhill from here, so I hang up the phone quietly.

A New Woman

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George didn’t move when Cindy punched him in the nose. He just stood up and walked to the fridge, poured a glass of water and dropped a few ice cubes into the glass. The ice cracked in the glass as he walked back to the couch.

I Liked My Giant Friends

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When you say they were too big, too wild, they weren't too big to be giants. Giants are meant to dwarf things. They can't help it. They're not trying to make you feel helpless to give them a haircut. They just grow fast. But they…