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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…

Harmony in D Major

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What shattering tranquility! Such a devastating hush! The flora in its element, the sky a flaccid red. Dreaming just a little, more or less awake, the people shift, capitulate, move like animated trees, dropping their leaves on pathways, on subtle …

After Appomattox

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The renegade states- Virginia, Georgia,/ Texas, and the rest- should have lost their names

The bridge

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as long as you have some snacks up there I can be brave

Baby Carrot

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In my choppings, I come across a tiny carrot amidst the baby carrots. The runt if you will.

Remedy

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the last, best// analgesic--/ guaranteed

The Actual Poets

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And here’s a picture of you at the end of the line to the great toilet of fiction, waiting to relieve yourself, quick before the poetry gets to you. Or worse, the actual poets.

Just Stopped In For A Raspberry Slushie

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Certain disorders lend themselves to poetics.

Poem in A Dead Language Only I Understand, Translated for You

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I used to be a poet, you know. / Better, in many respects, than you.