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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?”

Removals

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Her mother was worried.

Feets You Fail Me

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San Bruno avenue, six shops in eight blocks. Those Vietnamese ladies thrive on the pedicure trade.

Big Hot Day

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There is an emotion out there I can feel it already in me swimming around in my blood like a big hot postulation. Like a big hot hand of light.

The Model

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My art teacher hated Salvador Dali.

Playing Boggle with Lowell's Mind

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lewd sinew swine

Cloud Gator

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First it makes me think about the time I held a live, albeit tranquilized, juvenile gator at a zoo in Florida when I was twelve. (Somewhere these's a photograph, no doubt, of me looking terrified and a gator looking asleep.)

The Sham Wedding

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Mary Jo told me to hire somebody to marry us in a ceremony in the living room up at the house on Fairlawn. This was to take place in two days. Her divorce was final, and she had to get married or else it was all over for her child custody. I guess I was

gravelortian part 23

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Can't believe I was able to drive this far

Swan Song of the Pareto Optimalists

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I nearly burst out laughing when I heard myself telling him in my accented English that she’d confided in me that she was preparing to sacrifice herself as part of an elaborate snuff film produced by a band of psychotic artists hell-bent on making up for