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Encore

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...something in her raw vulnerability and daring beauty drove these men wild...

Now

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I'm looking for the perfect/passage, a safe, sound/jettison to now.

The Art of Pizza

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He’d eaten every kind of pizza from the most sublime to the foulest.

The Sound Of...

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What if Everything I have been doing Hasn’t been heard By anyone?

Song of Unself

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nothing suffices as harbor / but a permit to claw at every yawing chasm

A Dream in Brick

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A man walks up and faces this new red brick wall The bricks are all perfect as you might expect in a dream And the cement is tuck-pointed without a dribble, anywhere He looks at the wall and puts his head through it And when he pulls h

The Scrawny Dog Gospel

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Opportunity, says Webster, is a, "favorable juncture of circumstances." In my Oxford book of quotations, there are seven famous lines about opportunity. Seven – that’s it! There are twenty-seven regarding failure. Seems it's been easier for the great

Time Passed to Time Present

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Four Quartets is a slender book which/ can be read with intensity in its entirety

Counterproductive

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A fat kid running; the sounds of an ice-cream truck —counterproductive.

The Mujahideen

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Eighteen-year-old Svetlana Kabalevsky was now the widow of the poet Dmetri Kabalevsky, soon to be another widow-whore on the Moscow highway.

Bliss

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When he got out of sick bay, they moved him into a room with three other alkies. A kid, a tree trimmer, and a Catholic priest.

Liquids

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The bar sounds grew (as bar sounds will) until everything rushed together -- clinking glass, tinkling ice, laughter and zippers going down then up.

7-Eleven, 2AM

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In this 7-Eleven at 2AM I can write the saddest lines. / Among these malcontents and degenerates I am Ovid

AnythingAnythingAnything

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I’ll sit up all night, I don’t mind. I don’t have to Go to work, Or Wake up early.

First Man ~ 1947

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By the basement washtubs, I watched him skin a squirrel:

My Book of Frozen Ponds

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We broke our hearts rather than sit in your reversible seats with the plain brown paper packages tied on our laps, we did so together. You don't want to hear about that. It gets too close to the actual murder of love. I…

The poet. Pt. 3

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I think I remember now why people write poetry.

Handiwork

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People speak of wordsmiths, as if they hammer text into shape; smelting down clunky prose, recasting from white-hot ink.

High Notes

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Jazzy midnights twisted like DNA

Street Trash

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You can't put recycling with regular trash and regular trash with recycling.

Exasperation Management

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We honor fierce, quick, cunning/ thought-in-action types

The President is Giving the State of the Nation Address Today

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But the world is smaller when I see it / from the crook of your neck.

Progresso

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I don't see why you didn’t get a dozen while you were at it.

Meaningless conversations

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“I wanted coffee, not art. That’s why I came here, and the coffee here isn’t even that good. We should have gone to the place across town, their lattes are the best.” “How do you determine the best coffee? Do you think they have judges that go from sto

Story for Ned's Edit

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Two nights before his heart burst its strings near sundown Shabbat, we met at my house to wait for paint to dry. We could make an evening of that.

Con Artist

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The name he was using this time was Paul Sterling.

The Second Vulture Has Landed and It's Wearing Patagonia

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The first vulture became very aggressive and began eating carry-on luggage The second vulture has landed and it’s wearing Patagonia

A Butterfly For A Married Woman

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A married woman requests a butterfly tattoo that won't please her husband from an old tattoo artist.

Upon A Time

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What we did was walk in on an amazing starfish convention, everyone lazing about, softly frozen against the timeless drooling currents like strange looking wind socks washing up and down with the sun. I am empty, hear me roar in blubbery bluster and…

Hearing the Usual Reports

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In its own defense against what is too concrete the mind allows a magical thought--