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You load the pipe and suck in the fireworks. Whistling missiles, slithering sparks, shivering teases, dripping embers. You fall asleep with flashing neon outside and the Fourth of July in your veins. When you wake up, your room is the saddest place o
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The Chicago River is an artery of great renown in the history of the city, and it connects the lower waterways that lead to the town of Lockport and beyond. Near the old neighborhood where I used to live, the river divides the district, from Chinatown, do
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“Do you think she paints?”
“Her face, a little, But don’t you find her kind of bony?”
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collars of obedience /
discarded in the pyre /
with draft cards and bras
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He stopped the shower and recounted his life, now Kin-less and plain.
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I’ve just moved to New York City and, somehow, Scarlett Johansson is at the same party I’m at.
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Some books are like old friends and when you read them, you no longer feel alone.
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So I lopped off his head and reworked the creation...
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everything plus zero stays the same
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O’Toole signaled again with two fingers. The night was young. Suddenly I had to go home to my lovely Penny. All I knew was I didn’t want to end up drinking at a hole like this with my head down on the bar.
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Andrew had learned the art of being a chameleon at school where his school uniform provided an exoskeleton. Beneath was no costume, just the fragile skin of adolescent ego.
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I love how you touch me, your hands warm on my shape...
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I saw a woman / at the bar tonight
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Time is the / gravy of the bloody roast beef of / emptiness.
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I had the hair of a metal god, cracking it against the air whenever the stereo belched fists.
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Our banter has shifted, like wading from the shallow to the deep end. He taps his foot. “Your underwear reminded me of my grandma’s underwear.”
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But I am delighted to inform you that through our computer added softwareness, YOU have to been chosen as our Nigerian contact for the transfer of fundage used to research global warming. How ‘bout them apples?
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Len and I sit on Harpo's porch, drink beer and gab. It's hot, even for July. Len and I joke and laugh, and Harpo stares off into the middle distance.
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I want crazy at my funeral. I want clowns, a petting zoo, fireworks, craps tables, male and female strippers, and a three-person band composed of old men wearing striped vests, black pants, and straw hats: one plays a banjo, another on tuba, and…
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The tubing unwound in her hands, unreeling like a garden hose... it wasn't always that easy...
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Juan’s tío, Richard, who works for the city and is the kind of Mexican who thinks he isn’t, took care of the lawyer. Juan checks himself in the mirror, didn’t know how good dressing fancy would feel.
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Everything I understand / is in danger.
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She feels ugly but ready for anything.
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Can't please everyone / Or sail in all directions / Sail on / Stay the course / Still the ill-pleased storms come / To suck the wind from my sails
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Loving himself. Loved by no one. Loving no one.
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And here you are. Before your time. Behind the glass.
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“Jesus fall the second time. You want a map? Ten shekels.”
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I lie on the floor of the hut and for some reason I start to think about the Harvest Days carnival and that game where you have to toss a dime in a dish to win a stuffed animal. Next thing you know I’m a little tiny guy in there in that world of plates
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Warren Jeffries left this girlfriend of his named Karen, who was also a poet, and overnight she announced she’d gone back to being a lesbian, she’d so had it with MEN! She did a reading of her new series of Sappho poems at Cody’s Bookstore,
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