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Erma's last task, as it happened...

Testosterone

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"All he wants to do is watch the Hallmark Channel"

December 15, 2012

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Already, I can see that, whenever Harold moves, some of his soul escapes, like an accidental exhalation, like breath on powder.

Do you dream?

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Megalomania is a kind of backwards leprosy. It rots your insides out while your skin glistens and grows tighter around your bones.

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I follow what pulls me forward.

Honeymoon Bike Ride

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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.

Travel

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I texted a wickety-split, tax-declaring New York-based international escort, a moonlighting, all-pro Kit, whose day job on Wall Street yields no bonus.

I'm Face Blind. Who The Hell Are You?

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The real problem with being face blind isn't that you can't recognize faces. It's that people expect you to be able to.

Off Island

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There were only six passengers aboard the small ferry...

Laundromat

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Who am I?

Man on a porch with beer and shotgun

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Lo and Behold, there you are beside me

Poems I posted on social media, late night, when I was drunk.

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my God, I have no time, no time

SNOWSTORM

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long lines, short words

Mating for Life

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Mari thinks that's all fine and fucking dandy.

When To Break Up With Your Gynecologist

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He asked what I used for birth control and I told him, “prayer”. He smiled the kind of smile you smile at young girls who don’t know any better.

Heartlong

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... reason never lies...

Jacques Derrida, 9/11, And The Democracy Which is Yet to Come

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The decision to wage war on terrorism gave to terrorism its political legitimation.

Puddles

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The first inkling that I might be in love with Josie came at our high school senior day outing at, oh, what's its name, state park. I forgot, but it doesn't matter. She smiled, did a little wave and stepped away from her friends, lifted her sundress a little to keep it dry,…

The Vote

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God had decided to resign. Not even two weeks notice. He just resigned. Point blank.

Valentine Day

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Valentine Dayso excitingit means he really loves herwhat will he bringshe waitshe comes home with a hang dogexpression on his faceher valentine was leftat the gambling table

News from a Distant Relative

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(Suddenly, too lazy to pull even one title from his shelves, he thought: if it's now the “Dao De Jing”, shouldn't it also now be the “I Jing”? Alas, he was no translator.)

Still Strangers.

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I didn’t question any of it and instead sat motionless as she dropped my wrists and walked away seconds later.

Baking Bread

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the champagne foam cascades like cherry blossom ensnared in the first gales of spring

A Shot at Pool

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New waitress/bartender draws my attention to bare ankles and red hair

Meanwhile

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I saw/ star shine in/ my silver pail

The Prince of Arthur Avenue

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There’s things you can change in this world and things you can’t. We have to figure out which is which. Though I never was much good at it, I guess.

The Parade Route

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There will be no more internal birds like singing clocks, not like the lovely ones I know and still look forward to hearing, ringing like little bells in the church y belfry of the newly sprouting mornings to come, not unless the birds…

Toothpicks

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27 words with title.

randy the ram

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For you I bring the circus, I reinvent the shine

The Secret

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It was always your body that told so much -- lips working some secret out