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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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Let's walk through this park. We can talk until dark. You have the look of a wolf. I'm not stupid, Jack. I'm a lamb, you'll see, once you get to know me. That tat is fierce and your leathers tight black. My ink is old and black suits me, I'm told. …
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I have known a head become / a callus, matriculate, stop / shaving, move to Vegas
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“‘Dial Back the Snark’ is an attempt to fight the cynicism that’s corroding America’s social fabric,” Myers says, mixing his metaphors. “It’s spreading like wildfire."
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In my upper room, a sermon/
was playing about sundry.
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"The carpet's hot lava," my son cries, pointing at the ground from the sofa."Yeowch!" I say, leaping next to him.We sit together for a moment, silently contemplating our predicament."We need to get downstairs," I tell him. He nods, but does not move. He stares at the hot…
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I do not know the species of birds here. /
The two I see playing on the balcony at night /
I can never call back.
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We descended directly from Charlemagne
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This tanka poem was inspired by news report that the Macy's of "Miracle on 34th Street" fame has a white Santa in front and a black Santa in back.
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Anatoly Gringovitch was listening to the dress rehearsal of Hausenstockmann’s Constellations at Auditorium Rainier III in Monte Carlo.
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A man of action would take to his rake/
but Sloth would rather watch and wait/
for snow to erase each leaf on leaf.
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Coffee comes in KCups and you can't fight five wars at the same time.
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