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They wink at me as if to share/
a cosmic joke whose punch line’s still/
a couple dozen light years out
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Little rambling soul,/kind guest, friend: leave me laughing,/pallid stiff, and bare.
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I was Orson Welles skulking in the shadows and you Alida Valli;
our time measured like footsteps advancing on Gethsemane.
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Whatever you have,/
we can monetize it
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so much of what we know with certainty is amazingly uncertain
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"It was John-Darren who once told me that he felt sorry for women."
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She sometimes ate her dinner standing up, in front of her living room window.
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In my life when I am pursued /
by some wildly delicate thing
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It's been twenty years since you left. I should call it a day.Even the Obeah woman said as much. But I don't listen. Instead I sit with old and proper ethnic widows in black, waiting for your return. One of them translates my story for the…
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Everyday the buildings seem to be getting taller and taller.
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Oh it's another one of those strange thrill rides slowly building from a buzz saw whisperinto cool morning's consciousness, coming on and crawling through the moon's mattress like a silver stream and under the dented pillow where…
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The world has long since been bootlegged by madmen. The new invisible con men are the same as the old visible con men, hiding and lying behind their walls of lingering death. There's a weapon wielding demon hell bent on an insane vengeance crawling around…
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If you want to be a writer, just write stuff.
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The man went into his backpack and pulled out his book of crossword puzzles. The deluxe edition with fifty percent more puzzles for free. It had been an impulse buy from the bookstore, cost him four…
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Have you heard this yet? The daughter flew home to care for the mother, whose pump is still tick ticking—though now with aid—which means she leaves the kitchen when the microwave clicks on.
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There's no rain--there hasn't been rain in weeks--but the clouds are dark without the sun, and I can't see the stars.
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He now knew the impossible to be possible.
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So, I rough her up with sand paper, and hit her with chains, making dents. She examines her surfaces, tidily and efficiently, indicating the spots most in need of filling in with scratches and scrapes.
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We are impressed and cheer them on/
in their struggle against the wild/
and unkempt ravages of nature
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Why is the sky grey he asked meI don't know, I saysudden flashes of light snowbloat the cloudssea gulls are squawkingexpect them to peck at my headI have nothing to feed them
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fanned lashes on rouged cheek
a glamorous sea creature
in violet perfume
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When you say they were too big, too wild, they weren't too big to be giants. Giants are meant to dwarf things. They can't help it. They're not trying to make you feel helpless to give them a haircut. They just grow fast. But they…
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At night, I fold your name in origami doves and blow, hard, and you are disassembled come morning.
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We were offered mannequins that had pubic hair that grew and swirled, and could visit like a pet, and sit in your lap
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One of the women is a brassy blond, and when she takes off her coat, I almost choke on a French fry.
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“I don’t see how anybody could do it.”
“I could do it. I could do it because it ought to be done. When a thing needs doing, it’s best to go on and do it.”
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...when suddenly I was pushed from behind, smack into the deep end.
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It was there, and then it wasn’t, the victim of a magician or a swooping seabird.
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