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The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 11

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Michiko never telephoned Frank from Washington or Chicago.

STIFF NOW! The Early Embalming Craze Sweeping the Nation!

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Originally designed for para-morticians and pre-professional undertakers, the Protocol has now been certified and approved for over-the-counter purchase and is completely safe (check local regulations for sales to minors: not approved for veterinary use).

Selfie

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a few numbers/ and a handful of their operations,

For An Age That Needs No Patience

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Beyond the tattered flags of nature.Beyond all my love examines.Beyond the courtyard of Man's fever.Stands your mind of famines.More or less eclipsedby the darkness of my betters.I lay now down to ruinthe art of unsigned letters.To bypass Common Man'spremature…

I Can't Complain

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To tell the truth, I can’t complain. Look, lots of people have it tough. I don’t have it tough...

Crazy Eyes

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The kid with a testosterone chip Instead of a brain

Tuesday

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Only last Friday, he was introduced/ around, smiling, healthy,/ a fine young man.

perfectly...fine...

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You left for the glittery wild of West Hollywood. I guess L.A.'s off-limits now. My heart goes fucking tachy when I drive over Kellogg Hill past Forest Lawn and see the skyline glowing through the rainbow haze of sunset. You're out there, out in the…

stye

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poked in the eye

Kill it

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my dog had a tumor

Monet Clouds

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the slow stretches across the horizon

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 10

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Sounds terrific, but are there any strings attached?

chicken coup

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" I have no idea what's goin on out here, and I'm gonna find out one way or another."

Chapel of a Latter Day Agoraphobic

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The thrum and the thrust// have beaten conviviality out of me.

These Lines These Shadows

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From the movement of the silence and the stillness of the bells From all that stands unguarded in need of sentinels. My world concomitant with some other sphere, that refuses me admittance, elusive yet so near. A physical illusion, a blinding…

Potentially Naked Waitress

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just wondering what one does when age and job skills narrow one's career options

All These Poets

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All these poets with their wrinkled hands full of freshly poured over poems are driving me into the dried wheat fields like a black block of crows. Offering a collectable cigarette, they light the damned thing with another hand-rolled poem,…

Not by Choice but Circumstance

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With small and fleshy hands/ I scratch at enigmatic stones,

sabotage

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people keep trying to get me/ "out of the house"./ they see fun in me, and cool in me,/ and want to spend time with me,/ and i am flattered most sincerely./

It's the New Age of Bullshit

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They’re young and haughty. 27’s still a long ways off. They read about the famous, not the dead. Dusty dragonflies will not land upon them, and they are really only in love with the dishwasher. Now there’s a problem. Poetry is dead,

Kimchi Hatchet

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“You’re not Jesus"

Note from the wilderness

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It's a business, after all, all are quick to remind us. True dat, and the sun always rises in the east and sets in the west, and death and taxes...yup yup, we know. We get it.

He Brings Things Closer

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Behind the plastic kitchen, where the special children sometimes sit, a large boy in tight dungarees had grabbed Stephanie's hair in one fist.

Yes, the End Time Is Near

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We’ll just choke on all our shit

Lapses

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The body does what a body must

femme fatale

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her knife cleaves a single red hair

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 9

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Michiko stood in front of Steinway Hall on West 57th Street.

The Winds of Time

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Purple fades. Orange into a deeper blue...The deepest blue ever known.

Duration and Frequency

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for spirits and demons have no life/ but what imagination gives

Handy in a Denny's Parking Lot

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A compliment is candy to the heartbroken, oxygen to a suffocating flame. The best hunter picks his prey carefully, selecting his line like an archer pulling an arrow from a quiver, quickly and efficiently, then flick! the line cuts through the air and…