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Memory and Restoration

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How a breeze feels evaporating sweat on neck and forearms.

more horrid haiku

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a mere forty years/and maybe you become twelve,/maybe sixty-three.

Proverbs of the Converted

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a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single ticket

for the queen of lapis lazuli

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you kissed me, once,/ kindergarten, recall--/ behind my ear./ called/ 'bee sting'

A Matter Of Convenience

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Every retailer within my five mile containment zone is consumed with my convenience. It is incredibly comforting, this suburban fixation with access, proximity, speed, and ubiquity. If Marx were hanging out in American subdivisions today, he would likely

The Amazing Adventures of Macro-Microbe

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Macro-Microbe parked his car and proceeded on foot, which was a misnomer because he had no feet. Typical for Manhattan, no one gave him a second glance except for a homeless woman who tried to sell him hand-sanitizer. Macro-Microbe locomoted himself insid

Song: Three Good Hubcaps, music by Tom Casesa

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO3RAM7-ciU

Epiphany on a July Morning

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It's that day in July when you feel really bummed because you can't find your favorite white sleeveless shirt that you wear on the hottest days of the yea

Marine Forecast

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A favorite place doesn't always offer comfort.

The technological Judas delivers no kiss

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you are a necessary exercise in futility

she laughs now with wine

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was about a girl/he never met/across cold steel tracks/at cold sunsets.

Wounds

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Every day, a fresh new/ strain of Hell reveals itself

Placeholders

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Everyone falls,

confronting the nonconfrontational

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You borrow words from platforms you could never build Borrow morals from a party gone sour

The Model

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This is the world of an urgent art, the room silent, except for the constant sound of the camera.

After all

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The questions piled up so high I thought I'd neverget through the door.The ease of alcohol, the incline of submission. Guttural sounds and spittle.Wipe down the morning afterwith a shower.Redress in last night's clothes.There's coffee if you want it.Sincerity too -no,…

Edward Ogle the Dickinson

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Hope is the thing playing checkers

My Plastic Dreams

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Once, in the past or future, but definitely not in the present, I worked as a transportation minister for a friendly dictator, whose name was neither Hitler, nor Stalin, nor Kim Jong-Un, but whose mustache was toothbrush, whose smile was sardonic to the p

After getting sober through a bout of Bukowski

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Counter intuit

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I I I I

Crash

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My God. It never ends

July 16

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Last night as a duration spent hovering in electronic media-space.

Wednesday late, Friday early

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I wrote this during a poetry workshop at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with Carolyn Forché. January, 2015. So much more has happened since that stunning week.

Future Imperfect, a Jeremiad

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the birth of a long, dark age// where the wealthy will be eaten by the poor/ and the poor will be eaten by disease

Brain Cleaning & Repair

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You've been given some really cruel thoughts that are not your own.You've been given some really stupid sets of rules which are impossibleto follow. You can learn to manage for yourself. Remember who youwere before they told you who you were. You've been trainedsince birth…

You

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"Lately I've been thinking a baby's the only way I might be able to hang on to you."

Edge of Wolf

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edge of wolf howls and howls past sunflowers and skeletons

Hart Crane Pantoum No. 1

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One must be drenched in words.

Exploring Physics

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Our half-life, radioactive decay, particles shed leaving dust and bone."twilight years", "golden age", "evening of life"?Bullshit. I'm not ready to stop pumping high octane.You said, "I'll take you to Paris."Hemingway's address is still in your notebook, I saw it.I'll wear…

Guess I'm Finally Over You - song

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All this broken glass in the road Tells the longest story l have ever told Of how you lost your life and I my love And how you still go wandering above I don't know how I can return To the planet where we used to thrive Along this broken