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When you need a vacation...from everything.
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How a breeze feels evaporating sweat on neck and forearms.
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a mere forty years/and maybe you become twelve,/maybe sixty-three.
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a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single
ticket
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you kissed me, once,/ kindergarten, recall--/ behind my ear./ called/ 'bee sting'
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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
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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
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO3RAM7-ciU
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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
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A favorite place doesn't always offer comfort.
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you are a necessary exercise in futility
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was about a girl/he never met/across cold steel tracks/at cold sunsets.
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Every day, a fresh new/
strain of Hell reveals itself
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You borrow words from platforms you could never build
Borrow morals from a party gone sour
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This is the world of an urgent art,
the room silent, except for the constant
sound of the camera.
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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,…
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Hope is the thing playing checkers
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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
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Last night as a duration spent hovering in electronic media-space.
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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.
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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
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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…
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"Lately I've been thinking a baby's the only way I might be able to hang on to you."
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edge of wolf howls and howls past sunflowers and skeletons
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One must be drenched in words.
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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…
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