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I visited his loft last week. There were many exciting new pictures. Francesco was your main money earner before, now he will be again.
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Cockroaches may be falling through the holes
in the floorboards of heaven, but we will not be disturbed.
We are agents, free and clear, even if a little bit mean.
I want to quit worrying about money,
but the angels upstairs won’t let me.
The
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You were always goingto connect the dots. I was always goingto overfill a bucketwith poems. You wouldeventually drive off wavingyour hand like astar on a spring. I'dshoulder up another notebookfor the walk. Myhand would rather holda pencil. Yours wouldaccept a kiss…
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My head was swimming with nicotine, the coldness of the first snow, and unfinished love thoughts.
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If you want job security on this planet, you'd better study art.
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When nothing's coming in All I have are fragments Cloudy memories Uncompleted projects Disappointments loom large and threaten to define me I am only as good as what I produce And now I feel empty So how do I shine How do I find the spark that…
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I never looked at her face.
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because you pay/
for it to matter to me.
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"...she's been seeming like she's been dreaming while awake lately..."
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I was so used to the silence of late summer afternoons, when I could roll my hoop through the empty, sunlit piazzas without meeting another shadow, that at first I mistook the footsteps for the beat of a metronome spilling through an open window.
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a poem about things exploding/burning down/scattering for miles.
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Across the placid sea/The only moving ship/
Was eyed by Blackbeard
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This is why I’ve decided to assign myself a position in life similar to that of Stuart Sutcliffe with the Beatles.
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—Now that’s a hell-of-a-painting, Frank, he said. Those colors are engaged in warfare. How the hell did you do that?
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the wind mistook your arms for wings
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are speaking clear enough, through their open and bleeding wounds, for you to at least try and understand. Waving their massive arms like living lighthouses, bobbing in and out of the floundering waves, they are splashing out an…
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The blood is memorable/
as is the copper taste of that/
momentary certainty of lockjaw.
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Slip me in Between the cracks in your schedule Between the sheets of your bed Between your memories and your fears Between your eyes and the moon where I'll twinkle at you Slip me in somewhere, I won't disturb you Won't make you want to push me away Let…
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The four Grannies say, “GO!” and leap from the window. King's pickup is below, and he has lined the bed with his mother's throw pillows. Sundresses fly. Blue plastic diapers billow. They want cigarettes. I light their smokes with King's pearl-handled lighter as…
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You hold me now, and pay attention.
Everything is new.
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you tell
a stranger's story...
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In need of help, he bought his first self-help book at the age of twenty-nine.
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She’s a gourmet cook who can fake a great orgasm.
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Someone must bear witness//
at a comfortable remove.
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“Choices overwhelmed us,” Thomas continued, years later, “like waves crashing.”
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There he was, naked and covered in green mud
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