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Sophie's Choice

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Sophie is a cat. I tell you this upfront so as not to get you all wound up about moral angst, Nazi's or a mother's love.

Fatuous Dialogue #1

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—Was it true, what you wrote in that poem? —Pretty true. —What do you mean “pretty true”? Was it true or wasn’t it? —It was as close as you get to truth in poems.

The White Dogs Of West Emerald Street

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I wondered if Mr. Slane even knew/ how many dogs he owned

where horses stood ground

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Where horses once were tethered grows their grass . . .

Through windows dimly lit

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Burren-grey, the sky through sky lights is cigarette ash smashed across July.

mort

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how alike, breakup & death

Sunday Service

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How they all beat the small drum/ of the word within the world

Stockholm Syndrome in Glasgow

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Dos Equis

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dos equis ambar sits cool and dark by my side

It's Not Enough

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I'll never forget the way you tasted that last morning that I ever saw you.The blurry eyed look on my face as I searched your bed for my tshirt, and you in a hurry because you were already late for work bending down onto the bed and grabbing my chin the…

Do Not Spank the Truth

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Do not spank the truth Whatever else you do You do not ever Spank the truth If you let the truth be spanked You will be diminished And it will never let you Be finished, instead When you are dead You will dangle in the land Between

What I Saw in Mexico

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"I wanted to see cities whose names sounded like sad sighs...Oaxaca, Guanajuato, Reynosa, Camargo..."

Parcel

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you hear the knell of kindness long before its cathedral voices -- a recessional -- barters better times.

Sorry to have missed you

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1. Allowance 2. Tooth fairy 3. JFK coin savings bank in clear plastic beveled skyscraper tower 4. Ben Franklin iron coin bank

The Water

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The phenomena of this water formed the first definite link in that vast chain of apparent miracles with which I was destined to be at length encircled.

from insomnia

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soap smells tangy, but/I wouldn’t eat it: scent and/nutrition diverge.

16 Rules to help you become a Writer

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Get comfortable with criticism

Malady

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When the malady struck and the world fell dark at noon, she and I groped the walls and found our front door. Outside, bewildered, we heard the whine of jets in free-fall, explosions in the imagined distance. And we heard a car — or was it a truck that veered…

Rabusongu

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March

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The lungs forsake their love of breath. The arms/ resist throwing off the small weight of sheets.

If I Felt

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If I felt like reading a book then I would read a book

Hand Grenades, or The Child in Your Eyes is Exploding the Known Universe

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There is a war, but is it not In my heart? There is a war, but You are not the reason. There is a War, but we're all doing what we can. There is a war, but it is not just Your fight. There is a war, but I Wished you still walked…

The Walk of Shame

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There it was One abandoned high heel shoe on the sidewalk Could have been Some kind of robbery Though Maybe it was just The beginning of the Walk of shame

Strange Times

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From my place, down here amongst the earth, we have many names for you.

Cathy

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"Merry Christmas, Willie."

The Commodore

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The commodore drives a 67 Caddy rag top All fin and boatish power

Sharp-shinned

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Survival is often violent.

John of God, Painted by Murillo

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NO ONE CAN BE A BASTARD FOREVER

From the Notebook of John T. Cacciopo: A Brief Biography of Ann Coulter

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"When Roach # 7845 awoke this evening, she found herself transformed into Ann Coulter. "

Those Brain Motility Blues

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Philosophy: a muscular exercise of throat, jaw, tongue, and brain.