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Poets and Roadkill

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It is indisputable that poets love roadkill...

Rwanda Suite: Ape Woman

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I should have buried him on the saddleback and kept my mouth shut. I'll murder the bastard who did it.

Living but Dead, In-between

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You ask yourself, how can you be living but dead? It is not possible. Yet it can be and it can be slightly reversible, but realistically, for most people, it is not. Living but dead, is walking in the world of the in-between. Standing with one foot on the

Post-Mortem/Petites Morts

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I have things that I should do but I will lie abed with you in homage to our deaths last night.

Inside Out

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Who hasn’t at some point of the day wanted to dredge up everything in your pocket just to see what it is.

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Years ago when the smart of it was as nippy as this one.

The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of

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Now your dreams are headed for the Rhyme or Reason Convention where they try to convince you you can do this Trying to make sense of everything

Laundry List

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• Don’t confuse the virtues of bananas with the virtues of banana bread

I Saw the News Today, Oh Boy

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We are infused with fear and dread/ of the world we won’t engage/ except through flat screens and remotes,

we're already at the movies

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israeli flares light gaza/ casting incandescent nudity/ upon jumbled puzzle piece buildings.

A Sliver of Light

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Light slunk in from under a door, but just a sliver.

Right of Spring

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dicks, skulls and upside down crosses

Eighty-eight

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She realised that things you can't prove can be more intimate than the things you know to be true.

The Comedian

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Sitting near her desk, like a dunce cap, red

Nose

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At the conference her boss showed off his knowledge of wines.

gravelortian part 25

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I come up and out of the hole onto a village street in the middle of a parade celebrating the arachnid god.

Songs of Innocence

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I heard the worm was interested in the fat robin’s song.

Another Life Altogether

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{ a Triolet }A smile, a wave as I stepped out Into another life altogether ‘Twas little enough to talk about A smile, a wave as I stepped out And O' how after they did shout (Yet now we only talk of weather) A smile, a wave as I stepped out Into another life…

7th-grade haiku

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Against Disorder

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It is true that the college dogs spread vermin, reeked and shat on the soccer field...

If You Want To Work At Club Arseni

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I hev my girls shave.

The Seer

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They do exist though. They have for centuries and when one comes forward and is vocal and authentic, it pays to give a listen. How to know if they are authentic? They charge nothing, they fear nothing and they merely exist in the world, just as you and I

Longshot Down Undah

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He said stuff like ‘Crikey that's a knife',” she said, “it was bad, really really bad.”

Blessed

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The first thing Noah did, more or less, was plant a vineyard.

Wild Oats v. Shredded Wheat

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Written across an old geezer’s sweatshirt At the Farmer’s Market in L.A.

gravelortian part 24

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Outside cool fresh morning tiny fingers

love poem for the homeless man who was killed on wednesday night

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it was your hands—caked with years-old clay & quaking from too much solitude

Big Barf Theory

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We’re lucky it/ was chunky spew,

A little bit of babysitting

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Roy Williams was his real name. It had been for the last 15 years. Since retiring from the Firm he’d lived innocuously in an apartment near the Old City walls of Dubrovnik doing the occasional quick job for them. You never entirely retired from the Firm.

Gonadista Blogsdashiva

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"Shouldn’t I be able to easily get my arms around nothing?”