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Reprisal The bomb blew away hubris, shocked the arrogant bastards into humiliated silence. None of them had experienced hunger and they'd misjudged its effect. In the lobby of the palace, dirt, plaster, glass shifted, rumbled,…
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Thus, more people can drown//
and leave their bones
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I draw your location on my thighs. It takes up both legs; it’s far. I think about showing you but something comes up. The phone rings. I tell her I don’t want to donate to the PBA.
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Everything is at sixes and sevens.
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At first, it was tedious, those long Russian names, the convoluted story, but recess after recess he stayed in and became enchanted
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Noon sun, like a restless master
on my back
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Even word dancers need rest.
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It’s so uncomfortable being an Angel in a sack
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"The sheriff's mother-in-law made the smoothest 'shine in the county."
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I wander toward the midnight dock
a neon sine curve stabs my eyes
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After lunch I left my office and trickled along like a slow leak, a notch above meandering; gravity had become a lateral force that pulled me forward.
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Sometimes he would get up at night, go outside, and stand in the middle of their back yard.
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Imagine the poem written with a pistol at your head.
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She thinks she trusts this man; she wants to trust him. His face reminds her of a man who once took care of her on an airplane when she was a kid traveling by herself.
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April spit its greeting, toe to head.
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Carthage, Rome subdued:/itself, Rome never long tamed./Memento mori.
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A mile down the road, they found Denny’s. It was only four in the afternoon so there was no wait and the couple sat right away.
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Four ships anchor
Far off shore
Chains slip
Beneath the swell.
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Got me a 50 pound bat ray.
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This is the Minuteman tine/
of the three-tined fork//
we can stick into the modern world/
when it’s done-- a MAD triad.
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Pauleen tries to split open her legs because she doesn’t understand how to love someone without them.
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I clearly see the squirrels of
negativity all around me
or at least I sense that
they are there,
filling in the blank spaces
as I read down the page
prior to arriving at
the meaning of everything.
The greenness of figs
before they
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Too many sparrows flit and twitter here./
Let’s go inside. The sky is far too big/
and the sun bears down on us like searchlights.
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Extrapolate, interpolate/
to add imaginary flesh//
to fragmentary bones.
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I'll always remember those warm, weekend twilights on the beach after the frolic of the waves seemed to flatten with the impending dusk, sending the surfers home and, after the bait was spent, sending the surfcasters away, I'd claim a square of sand as my stage,…
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One final herculean strain, if it didn’t kill him might get him at least to his knees.
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And a delicacy
in the right regrets.
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That TV you got me? Ruined. And the ionizer fan? Ruined too. All your clothes you left over here, all my work scrubs and weekend dresses too, soaked with that river stink water. I kept thinking bout all the dead creatures.
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