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....the first/
in a long history of indignities.
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Just a little shop girl in for the summer. Working on a typewriter. Barely knowing where the keys were. That was her. She was terrible at it. He was in a suit. He looked short, and thin, but something about him was captivating. He was in his own way hands
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His eyes begin to glisten like hot green wax pooling around the
wick
of a
pretty little candle.
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Paris was a better place for African Americans in those days. Josephine Baker sent a spray of roses. James Baldwin helped him find a good apartment.
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Myrna came home from her new, midnight shift, waitressing job at the Waffle House saying she was sorry but she couldn't take any more gray-haired Jesus-types with their dollar bills held high, releasing a few so they would flutter, as if borne by wings, onto the tables as…
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Of course then I did it all over again. Got married, that is. Fortunately, this one worked out.
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And if I lived a thousand lives...
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He thought of it as magic, but magic that he understood, the way a magician knows about the hidden compartments in his hat and trunks.
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Bud Light, B. O.
and Freeloader Heaven,
they step onto the
back of the bus without a cent
We pass by the Karma Wash
but no one gets off the bus
We pass by the
Endless Soup and Salad Kitchen
where we witness a crowd
swarming over a ch
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The night my mother dies we'd watched Solaris at the Quad Cinemas Afterward Hauser and I videotape each other, ask probing questions like where do you go when you die, and what is God, and who are you now? …
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There's a man sitting in my room holding a jar of my ashes. That's what he claims.
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She said, “I think I’m pregnant,” but I thought that the sidewalk looked cleaner than usual,
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“I am the Successor of Peter!” he said, supporting himself on the shepherd’s staff topped with a crucifix: “And you are trespassing on Holy Ground.” Baal said: “No ground is Holy for me.
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Of red snappers, flaccid on porcelain slabs...
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I clearly see the squirrels of
negativity all around me
or at least I sense that
they are there,
filling in the blank spaces
as I read down the page
prior to arriving at
the meaning of everything.
The greenness of figs
before they
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44 miles out
the gauntlet of Red River pines
cast shadows pointing north.
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Schrödinger's Cat twitched and nodded as he picked up the discards, casting his mind back to 2014, when local confidence seemed at its peak . . .
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Tarzan peers through a telescope. Earth, in its aphelion, is approximately 40 million miles away. A star. He lives alone. He is old. He worries about going blind. Mars is cold. But there are ways to keep warm. He reads poetry. He lets out bloodcurdling…
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last night a girl came
to me in the shape
of my suicide.
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What in the name of God’s green earth does this say? “Chifferobe if you can of Aztec in coffee can”?
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The thumb, incarnate, knows/
the moment of the misplaced hammer blow;/
the tongue, incarnate, the cool invigoration/
of water drawn from the dark well.
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saw the world was a mess
I did nothing about it, poured myself some apple juice
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a half-moon hung straight up and down
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like a reflection vanishes
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“If your work is good you will get published. Just keep at it."
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Why was the broom late for work?
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She left knives and hot pots with handles akimbo. Like a guardian angel, he turned them in. Like an ungrateful Eve, she turned them back out.
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The one that I love - doesn't love me.
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I approached him slowly. His voice was soft and raspy. He said, "Kneel down my son, I've been expecting you."
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