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Near dusk today a car backfired on the street beneath my office window
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That black hole isn't really a hole.
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We suffer//
the one agony only- of having no longer/
any physical effect nor way to speak/
of what we watch to those we watch.
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over much howling of poetry and things that act as if they were dying
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What’s your favorite emotion? Mine is ripping the sky apart and standing on a star outside of time.
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If I start getting rambunctious, put me in a cab.
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Albertine had never loved Agnés. Oh! She had liked her very much. Especially her wit, the skin at the nape of her neck, even the two freckles on her arse that would bloom when licked.
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I was sitting at the barFeeling the blues after workDrinking my 64 0z pitcherOf beerBody hurting all overAnd this kid begins to talk to meAbout how drinking is killing myBrain cellsAnd of course i have heard thisShit all beforeYet i act dumb all the sameLike really? I did…
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A man who is sexually attracted to playground equipment was recently banned from “any location with a slide” after being caught having sex with one. Christopher Johnson, 46, was described by the newspaper who reported this item as having a “powerful…
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Seems I was in the wrong place, wrong time.
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Woman bites into pearl,
finds baby oyster.
Woman bites baby oyster,
finds baby pearl.
Woman blows on baby pearl,
it begins to grow.
Woman gets excited.
Now we’re getting somewhere,
she says.
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There’s a price / on everything
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Wafting wisps of fondness twinkling
in time with fairy lights pointing out lawns in cities
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It is imperfect,/
eroded by the optics//
of light, space/
and orbital mechanics.
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Frank was about to take the first bite of a chicken salad sandwich.
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Everyone asks that question. The short answer is: he brought it on himself.
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I've written of this and I've written of that, Have scriven as you have it either that or this: But if you strive against the wind when you decide to piss, They say, you'll find up firing against your hat- Like some old Brother who was broiled when…
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She was as beautiful as flowers in a dream
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the moon is coming back now the shadow hovering and shiftingthe clouds a passing shroud I didn't know if I would be patient enough but now the sliver of light is increasing filling in / filling out the circle I am surprised by how much relief I feel there…
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There is a false dawn,
when night still holds sway, but tempered with promise; anticipation.
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Also, our daughter had learned to splash, causing us each time to break into spontaneous renditions of “Splish Splash (I Was Taking a Bath),” which made us not mind so much that we were getting covered in water.
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My dog Alfie and I would get in my van and go out at midnight for a doughnut. Or an éclair. A French cruller, to be exact. Sometimes we would get Blondie's Pizza on Telegraph Avenue near the Berkeley campus, if it got to be too lonely and restless at nigh
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These days I wear a flag pin.
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In the gutter, the paper signs turned back to pulp.
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The mirror can never talk back/
unless corrupted creases of the brain/
and its recombinant physical maladies//
elect to answer...
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—Mazel tov, schmazel tov!
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