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My poetry is bare, showing its pink and purplish imperfections and its injuries. I buy it a dress to hide its bruises, to ornate it a little, to make it smile. On its rather ugly and mishaped body, the dress looks comical, ridiculous, clumsy, like a bird with a broken wing.…
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One of my father’s friends never had a name so everyone called him Dickey Dew because he said that’s what everyone called him after he got his balls shot off in Vietnam. I used to sit on his lap while they played five card draw and he would pretend no
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If I had been a cat you probably would have kept me forever, even with an incurable disease. I think about that every time I clean the litter pan, especially late at night.
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Shakespeare was Shakespeare, after all, the greatest poet the language has ever boasted: why did Shakespeare’s contemporaries even bother with their paltry efforts?
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one day I will take you / to Grenada
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I'd kill a gas attendant in Playa Del Mar.
You'd read stained romance novels in motel rooms, while I oiled the gun and laughed on the phone, to no one.
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a poem about an abduction in my NYC neighborhood
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Mullah Omar was quoted as saying that “America will fall to the ground.” The extinction of America will come about if God is willing.
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I’m not sure if it’s Punkin or her pink fuzzy bunny slippers that I love.
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She wants to be an apple on a stick, a mop and handle, a brain attached to bones.
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People go through life all the time with only one kidney, or with some of their female-parts removed.
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...she lifts one shell, sips a little, then swallows the creature whole.
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He played real good
But never looked
At no one
Strong guitar
Weak knees
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She wanted one, she said. She wanted one who looked like me. I wanted one, because I wanted her. I wanted her for everything; I wanted her to fill every crack and space inside of me.
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Once, when I fucked Tinkerbell, thirty glowing lights sprang to life in the dark static air of the by-the-hour motel room. They were new fairies I'd brought to life with each thrust. "I feel like someone's watching," I said, unsure I could continue, but Tink said,…
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I sat on the top step and watched the woman go down and stand in the middle of the room, raising her hands as if to touch them and I half expected the moths to lift the ends of her hair, the hem of her skirt, and fly away with her.
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She watched an inky cloud suck all the color / from the trees.
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Toting a sawed-off shotgun at the altar
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A latch key boy, free/
to do the stupidest things-- like jumping//
off the carport roof clutching a homemade/
flying machine that couldn’t fly
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******WARNING: Long-ass story****** Click at your own risk.
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Can you see me dying? 'Not quite',
Said Mummy, 'because it happens
Very slowly all the time.
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I don't usually take bets, / but I took this one.
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At the Cimitiere Montparnasse he offers the girl his raincoat. I'm searching for Samuel Beckett, he says, and holds an umbrella over her as she consults her map. We're close, she says, pointing. I'll go with you. Then we can visit Simone de Beauvoir. My name is Scarlet.…
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He and I are still and somber at the kitchen table. We’re both wearing black and stare at each other through blood-shot eyes. The children’s thumps echo on the ceiling above. I think about the other family’s children.
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To envy faith, to envy love --//
is there a fate more hateful? Choices/
scatter like stars. Too many.
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We all got married — Suzanne, and Virginia, and I — and it was all we ever wanted to be at the time.
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There's always a sound, something triggering the fear.
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If you outlive me, she said, it won't be because I smoke but because of what you put me through when you quit.
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