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Trees Today

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are my only real friends. They don't seem to mind my shuffling down the dirty sidewalks without acknowledging their mere scraggly presences like friendly tombstones. They are growing their hair out again. I've noticed that much. We've got a…

Paulie in Albuquerque

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Savvy as a nine-year-old playing poker with high rollers in Las Vegas, that was Paulie. She'd finally thrown Dick Weasel out the night before, but that morning Diana'd shot down their plan of sharing the house in a “man-free”…

Bog Crossing

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Written within five minutes, being a parody of the artless vacuity of observational 'poetry'(By Tedward Weeney and Seamus Spews) The large wind in the treetop tells the blackbird its own voice. The yellow grainyard resounds to the clodding of my farmer's…

Snatch 8 (the zombie flash sequence--it never dies)

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Oh, gracious mercy, oh...

From the discovery of fire to a crypt slash restaurant

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When To Wear Mascara

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it's time for the cold, antiseptic cloth to briskly remove the evidence.

The Judge's Wife Part 9

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Suddenly something clicked.

The Fourth Prague Defenestration: 14

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“Gentlemen, how could I go about attracting the KGB?” Now that got the attention of Boris and Vladimir. Their eyes bulged right out of their heads. They both started huffing and puffing. “What are you, crazyman or something?” said Boris. Vla

A Body Unable

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Once again there's too much to handle and no space to process

How to Get Fans For Your Band (or book, start-up, app, whatever)

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You’re finally in a band that can get through a rehearsal without someone strangling someone with an amp cord over creative differences. No one’s in jail, rehab, or MIA from a multi-day booze binge. The group has laid down a few quality tracks that don’t

The Drone

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"He turns in his bed, and reaches for a body, like the blind to braille."

Dark Matter

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The darkness isn’t evil but invisible/ in the otherwise excellent light of day

Puzzles

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The man went into his backpack and pulled out his book of crossword puzzles. The deluxe edition with fifty percent more puzzles for free. It had been an impulse buy from the bookstore, cost him four…

A Shadow on the Summer Sun

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Shadows are so admirable in film noir less so on x-rays and mammograms

Depictions of Buddhas knee-deep in angst

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the way you make me feel

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out in space/ platonic forms/ dazzle with/ voluptuous grace

Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.6 - c.4

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A large shadow cast overhead as the sound of sirens blared in the distance. People looked up at the white clouds consumed by the pitch black cloud.

The Fourth Prague Defenestration: 13

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The next thing we knew, the KGB started tailing us everywhere we went. They must have heard about Lenin’s Paintings, was all we could figure. Because, what if they were real? That night we went out to a pizza place where we saw the worst graffiti in t

A Lovely Ghost Sings a Haunting Thing at Her Own Reflection

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We've come this far. That's all we know. We've watched others reach their abrupt ends. They've given us this exact moment and we've taken it from them, sometimes without thinking. It's time for the next communication. I know what concern is…

The Judge's Wife Part 8

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—You're convinced I'm crazy. I'm convinced you're incompetent.

Agents of the Anthropocene

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Perhaps they serve/ a God’s twisted will// as they accelerate extinctions

The Hangman's Poor Gift

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of placing the rope just so; of settling the veil with care --

"Hadrian's Farewell" as Tanka and Haiku

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Little rambling soul,/kind guest, friend: leave me laughing,/pallid stiff, and bare.

Snatch 7 (come 11)

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...the scream and the face...

Time shall have revenge

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Prompts

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Write a poem in which your father is a dog and you are his leash.

Write power

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Write power like a purring kitten eyes wide without an idea of exactly how small he is.

Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.6 - c.3

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Mother’s eyes stared outward in a trance, on her throne, visualizing the world Azure made. Though it was right before her, she could not reach it.

The Fourth Prague Defenestration: 12

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Ellen and I stepped out into the hall to discuss the situation. Maybe we should make some sort of offer to purchase these paintings, because if it did turn out that they were for real, well, the value could be endless. Think of it. Vladimir Lenin, the pai

The Chair

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His thoughts drifted to when he was a kid, to the monthly trip to the barber.