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“When I was six years old, Dad came home from Vietnam and picked me and Mama up from her sister's house in Boston. We packed a U-Haul with everything we owned from T.V. to toothbrush. Dad hitched the trailer to the Rambler and drove us South, back home to Carolina. A…
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The generalized mania and rage was for anything prior, the rare and the bygone, anything that might have been overlooked, anything that might otherwise have been forgotten for good and forever.
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Our painter was killed by a bunch of kids who were making fun of him. A gun went off. What is a noodle? He wasn't sitting in the world, anymore. Where was his straw hat? His pipe? He desperately needed to smoke. What is a noodle? Why are trees…
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We don't watch the Honored robin's newspeak address the silent worm legislature on C-SPAN or CNN every week.Raccoons, skunks, snails and bears I'd wagerdon't congress to Robert's Rules of Orderyet are not their debates bloodthirsty exchanges between…
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The wildlife smuggler grabbed me while I was in winter torpor. He wrapped me in cloth, taped my wings down and put me in a pouch. We crossed the seas. In a new country he sold me to a bird collector. There I was in a cage, far from my…
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["Creed vs. discern" ... or ... "discern vs. creed"?]
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He sure can play piano
With those giant lobster hands
In his ratty raccoon coat
And his old black cowboy hat
His boots of Spanish leather
And face like sultry weather
His raspy croaking voice
Picking out the words so choice
They reall
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The suite of dark rooms/
extends forever./
It’s no big deal.
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when she says she's lonely
he hands her last week's TV Guide
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5. To hate one's race is always overrated;We built fair cities where there were no huts.The Frankfurt School should all have been castrated,And strung up by a noose made of their guts.Marcuse, you have caused the death of Europe,With Gramsci, Adorno, Freud and all…
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moonbeams unrecognized language
steadies my course
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Father, trouble me memory;laconic, idle, some glint on the dark. Recall us to me: what did we have, or what did we lose? Like some late affection, open me again, laugh it out of us. It is not loss I'm looking toput back together, papered over…
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Oh Triple-Crownéd who evades my sight,/ Guide me down proper crossroads in this life/ As you have promised to grant me your might/ And make of me eternity's fair wife.
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we, no matter our accumulation date,/
will settle down into tidy piles, no doubt,/
after the universe has torn through the place . . .
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powerless against the memory of the earth-bank and the river flows, through a susurrus field of a million quills
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Lonely kids only want this thing To not be lonely. The lonely Kids have learned to be absolutely Still. Who does this fall to? They Haven't read enough Vonnegut? David Foster Wallace? Remote Kids stand and prepare to leave the Planet. Any…
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I let go of my properties, my work.
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I have the fear of comedy
I have the laughter of war
I have the need of a commando
To come sack and ransack us
Over and over again, O
I am a pillow, a rock, an ant
A soft Southern deer in the headlights
I have the mask of Anonymity
Lyi
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I love the notion of uncertainty-/
which seems inherent/
at the level of particles-
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I met a girl with chia as her hairVerdant green waves from ear to stunning ear.So blew, without care, the wendigo air And I, a righteous knave, bought her a beer.I looked into her eyes of deep-set brownand said “hey baby, you some chthonicfertility goddess…
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Lena stood next to the river. How she arrived there she couldn't say. An unconscious move on the fringes of her reality. A bulrush plant was stalking up. She felt being stared at by it. She could see two holes for eyes in its spike. Some years back, she would have …
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The title of the overdue book returned to a public library in San Francisco 100 years after it had been checked out? Forty Minutes Late.(Readers Digest, 04/17)In 1999, Kathy McKeon, Jackie Kennedy's former assistant, went to a Halloween party dressed in a Marge Simpson…
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"The capital cycle is a bit like a first wife,” he said, and he heard a few laughs of surprise at the curious transition. "When you re-invest in a second wife, you're held back by sunk costs in the first one."
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FUN MOVIE TRAILER: 41 members of my family participated in a movie I co-wrote and shot with my wife. Have a look!:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA7k2r81iXEHere's the 64 minute film-noir-style…
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mind heart soul will blood sweat tears muscle, and bone,/and then always something else—not more, just else . . .
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You anchor the real
You make love to the true
I am bound to you in consecration
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Perseid meteors fly past their ship like cosmic fire-wasps.
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