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Hurried, hassling suit in front of me is being awful to the barista. So she refuses to serve him, turning away.
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Just beyond the corkscrew slide / the President of Egypt was bleeding to death
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May the timing belt stand the stress again
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...Rabidosa rabida- no spinner/
of webs but a quick and cunning
solitary hunter. Anxiety overwhelmed
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Winter melts to ashes and now we walk where hillocks dip like pillows, where a warm pocket of air keeps the scent of spring beauties for itself. Sensitive vetch so easily shocked folds under a feather yet the earth trembles where trout lilies shove. Buds stall on lilacs…
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Your self-effacement hid/
so much of you//
until you died and the full/
inked legacy shown in light
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He nuzzled the breasts with his face for a moment, his leathery skin and tangles of hair tickling her in the process.
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When they were seven, he’d taken them out to the desert and let them shoot a .38 at rusted cans. The explosions rocked them back on their heels.
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His self-assurance says/
he’s practiced in the art/
of self-deception
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It seems that back in 1911, Kaiser Wilhelm came to this town
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The blues were born on the ghost train that rolled through the Delta and gave Memphis breath back in 1902. It's low moaning sound brought young black men running, dogs hot in pursuit, toward glory that danced in a moonlight…
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They wait for me every morningthese two furry four legged catswhen they hear my car,their eyes open wide and they nuzzle each otherin anticipationof the food I bring them
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Here was the situation, as I recounted it to myself: somehow, I was trapped in some unearthly dimension where Baltimore, actor Emilio Estevez, and myself had somehow collided in a big cartoon scrum complete with onomatopoeias and clouds of dust.
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“Why is it so warm? Do you feel that? I think it’s...pulsing.”
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They say I am filthy. On this high pillar I perch like a stuffed avian relic, flightless, no prey. The horizon before me is broken by scuff and foreign tongue, by atomized evil. Pleas, and there are many, are answered by the only prayer I know, the one prayer, which…
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I awake one morning to find that still,
the leaves continue to fall.
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Charlie Hancock missed the bus. Started walking.
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Essences of bull and bison,//
stag and horse, illuminate/
the stony underground.
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We keep a ruin of a house, but I suppose it's all right.
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Is it my imagination, or is her chair afraid of her?
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Altodog was dressed in filthy chef’s trousers and a long-sleeved purple dress shirt, somewhat dignified by a tattered black vest.
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communication/
with the dead
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Mama hung them everywhere. It started with just a few, in our apartment and outside on the brick. She made walls into windows.
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“Susan,” he says menacingly, as if he’s a husband who’s caught a cheating wife in a discreet liaison with another man. “I thought I made myself clear about this sort of thing.”
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I stand at the edge of the water naked as a newborn. Tiny ripples lick my toes.
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These words are dripping Delaware and these words are eating your eyes.
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Figures are a strip tease.
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