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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

Wet funeral

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I know now, how she moves without verbs after you crushed her into the river.

Brexit

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Reams of saggy bunting intersect the streets.

Preaching to a streetlight

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Stone Cold Sexy

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You drink in women's bodies, without reserve. You take a sip at the post office, a gulp at the gym, a teensy taste when we walk together. Tonight you even indulged as we were looking for a parking spot and passed some twenty-somethings, then followed up w

Grief Has No Welcome Garment

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Twice burned, it buries its graves.

the true bliss of objects is entropy

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What the tumbler meant

fc1 (bee boo guy/ valio hansolo)

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poon fred / loop ilo/ bussy yubb tree

Where I Live Now

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The young man is back again, solo,

Neither star nor killer

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I am fantasy

five discards or less

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weep or go stark mad your amanuensic fool will bury your words

Rhapsody in the Rain

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so many bills to pay the list keeps shedding its skin like a snake

Cranshaw Engages in Debate

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They were discussing reincarnation, what animals they would come back as. "I'd be a vole," Cranshaw said. Is a vole even an animal? Connie asked.

Cake

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There I saw a man Lowering his head Close to the plate And just wolfing down His cake And that was all he ate It was like Solace He was enjoying it So much

Edward Ogle the Seventh

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Airwave candy lyrical brandy brass band singer.

First Streetlight

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What I'm going to do is grab this eight-year-old fellow down the block, and declare him a candidate for this Presidential campaign. I'll be his campaign manager, and our whole message will be based on the First Streetlight platform. It's old school but very…

mermaid tale

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your words that came crashing over me/ so cold the clear shock was like salt water

River Run

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yearning amid the waning

Big Heater

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they got some heat here in the West

Two poems by Kitty Boots

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To dance along the wrack line...