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My parrot Poe freezes when a crow soars outside the window the same way I do when you approach my door. You come knocking late at night. What do you want this time? I yell. To come in you say, please. Go the fuck away, I respond but you keep…
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my heartis a brokenstandpipefanningcity water cayenneacross sidewalksgutters ripple redover fast food bagsand cigarette buttsover the feetof priests and pit bullsover the handsof drunksand babiesand into the mouthsof ratsand raconteurs you never oughtadrink…
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We shut the door of her new apartment while Andy went back down to the car for one last load. Terry went into the bathroom and pissed blue. Blue, for God’s sake! Some pills she was taking. But she came back into the living room completely naked and pulled
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I was a peasant girl, believe me, and nothing much to look at--- close set eyes, one blue and one green, wispy brown hair and a chin that dominated every other feature of my face.
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Rerunning, now it's published.
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It’s layer VII we adore/
and mourn
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I dreamt I was spinning down the coast in a convertible. It was warm, and the top was down.
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1,919 followers in 105 countries come to this site every day looking for breaking news on the number of white kittens promoters are required to provide Mariah Carey at each concert.
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over taking the sky before near blindness, a clipping occurs
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Z. takes lewd/suggestions/with little blinks/of his everlasting/eyelashes.
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One day we turn a corner, and two fat little doggies spot us and come running up. Oh, they are so glad to see us!
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The boy in the elevator with round glasses, /
who carried a newly-purchased broom, /
was tall and burdened with clothes
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You say you want a resolution
Well, I got one
Let's start with nothing at all
No logic, no war, no whiskey or bombs
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Rocky, Arne’s elderly cat, was perturbed by invisible phantoms that provoked him to leap up on his hind legs, batting his front paws at the air like Don Quixote attacking windmills.
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We are the miserable, annoyed, dismayed sick. We slouch on black naugahyde chairs too pathetic to reach for magazines. The computer is down the young receptionist has explained to each of us in young, florid style, complete with “I…
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An anorexic middle-aged woman walked up and watched me..
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not of time, but of all the clocks/
that tick along toward the end/
of all the possibilities.
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A dirty-blonde woman in a little black dress,
her face a picture of chagrin/
Was similarly looking around as if lost,
other’s heads ending at her chin.
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he wanders the house/ crying for the hairless tomcat/ (gone for the night/ on an overnight job).
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This is Jorge. He was a good little monkey. And always curious.Like the time he and his friend, the man in the amarillo sombrero, had to fly to Japan. *Jorge sat by the window. Watched the ground get further away. Until they were above the clouds. He looked out…
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sprang straight up to their full galloping heights roaming over your hills like constantly shifting eyes, your strange approximated illuminating hair like ghosts giving birth to a tender smell of green sea foam. This was all I saw, but it was quite…
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The blade was wielded by a spunky brunette with a German accent and a laugh that made me weak at the knees.
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She laughed as she stuck up the word flaccid,
it kept falling down
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The drip of rank meat, his muzzle, his back-barbed tongue: red.
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They couldn’t have done it better if they’d waved guns around in the air.
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lost in a taxi cab, 4:30 am
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Every year people came from as far away as Des Moines and Halifax for Elephant Day. They came to see the elephants.
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Girolamo Dente was nodding off in his studio at Découvrir Art when he heard the alarm.
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He didn't hide it. He told her he was a mortician when he called. He had responded to her ad in the Lonely Hearts section of the newspaper.
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this elegant silver wrench/
which from the opposite side/
becomes a golden Phillips-head
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