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Sundays after Mass, Sister Edburga gathered the team in the shower room, we stripped naked in a circle, held hands and said a prayer we’d win our game. A boy no one knew walked alongside her with a box full of jockstraps.
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The screen door slowly opened. I was expecting the second / coming of perfection.
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A spire
that had stood one hundred and forty years
fell in
a single second of the blackest day.
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1987. Recently, I told a teenager who was smoking a cigarette in an elevator that he should put it out. “You a cop?” he asked.
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I had dreams of being permeated with the heat of Caramelized sisters. A declawed cat kept creeping along my apartment walls.
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Get something cheap and light at Target. Trash hell out of it. Encourage baby to urp up in it.
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in late fall, Rome, sans wind, sans rancor,
sans sand or rain, sans hate ...
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what-ta-hell, fuck this
he snorts brushing
the dust from his shoulders
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B: Write a short story about men for the gym teacher. Write a candle for the century.
A: How do I end it?
B: Write a synopsis.
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I wondered if Mr. Slane even knew/
how many dogs he owned
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Imagine a morning without dawn, without daylight ... The night birds still hoot, the flowers wait for the light to change their make-up, black birds have locked their beaks. A morning unlike any other ... The moon above continues to reign over the milky way, the stars to…
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When I was fifteen and we were moving to Mississippi, my boyfriend in Canada told me I was going to live in the swamp with the alligators. I didn’t understand why my father would pick such a hick place. Rob gave me his cricket bat to hang over my bed, a
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The Buddha on my wooden desk says all things are Chaplinesque, that all's a self-containing joke, a cube of ice in a glass of coke, a sunbeam dragged thru autumn leaves, the residue a lover leaves, a kind of vein,…
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Everything is bound to change like / a damsel to the tracks.
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My table offers up the gutted calf/
with carrots and potatoes yanked /
alive and whole
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A year after we'd last spoken I can still remember your commentary, our ill-fated reunion at the baggage claim forever immortalized as this solitary instance of unobstructed joy.
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One day it was boring / to be alive.
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It is claimed we choose/
conditions of our servitude.
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"I tell you about ten other men
who want to love me and two I could kiss
in the smoking room of a jazz club,
you wonder if I’d love anyone."
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When the full moon changes trajectory and comes close it pushes you to different gravitational fields
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Anson Chi/
tried to kill my wife
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in their hunt for desires not felt on either side of the crescent /
called Gowanus
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They say
it was like an elephant
married to a dove.
Imagine, me,
a dove!
Ridículo!
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“Not all the birds are to be trusted, and there are other spies more evil than they are.” —J.R.R.Tolkien This may well be our own about time, time to walk out that comfortable front door forever into danger. Nothing will ever…
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I was little, very little, when Happiness went away. I moved the entire earth, walked in the ferns, poked in the river. Happiness had disappeared. I looked to the sky. I remember, the sun had the porous face of an orange. Not unlike my skin. My eyes fixed above, I saw it…
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A pinprick breaks the black/
and pins the spin of constellations/
around its still point.
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You left for the glittery wild of West Hollywood. I guess L.A.'s off-limits now. My heart goes fucking tachy when I drive over Kellogg Hill past Forest Lawn and see the skyline glowing through the rainbow haze of sunset. You're out there, out in the…
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Cultivate your vaginal tears
at the gates of Thigh and Holy.
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