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no one else comes in my back door but you
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At night, I wake up, and Daddy's in the bathroom with a hanger in his mouth....
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. . . the greater length of the so-called “Montebaldi Corridor” can still be walked without the least exposure to direct sunlight as long as the traveler is not active from 9 am to 3 pm local time.
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It is not unusual for farmers to see the future before it’s begun—but I am not speaking here only of the need to hope but more. . . .
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Thank you for the flip book with the woman dancing, bird wing elbows, knees this way and that.
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She wears a green and pink bikini and walks real slow, poking her chest out so people will notice her.
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The leaves/
that clung through February/
fall, dung brown,
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There were avocados splayed across menus like 1950′s pinup girls–all thigh and curve. Avocados in California omelets. Avocados split and diced, sprayed with lime, slapped on bagels, served with tomato.
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Infinity occurs as an afterthought, for discoverers like Columbus as for countries like America.
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You’ll say you should have known. You’ll blame my music.
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Love me like a crutch
Love me when I'm strong
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With the sudden thrust//
of April green, we can forget/
our drought continues.
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The man she loved did not love her. At first she prayed to Athena for strength and steadiness. She began to knock on wood, spit on her…
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She believes that this started with a phone call when she walked out of the deli yesterday. She believes that it started when it was snowing this morning in Brooklyn, waiting for her car to arrive, but the truth is, this journey began a long time ago.
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They were all sitting naked in a sauna and drinking Diet Coke, with droopy ball sacks and sweat rolling over massive man titties and paunches. Yahweh sat on an upper bench, wearing dark goggles to protect his eyes from the brightness of his own still radi
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All of those lovelies, pitched on the ground, ignored and ready to rot.
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Chuck woke when he smelled cooking.
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He started plucking at my back like it was a banjo. Lucky for me, he was no Earl Scruggs. My virtue was safe with my Earl. We would have been there until the Second Coming, my bra still safely fastened, if I'd have stuck around.
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I held her hand through two divorces, I warned her that gorgeous Geoffrey was homosexual when she was oblivious, and I fed her children when she was off at rehab (four times before it 'took').
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All the lights of Rekyjavik...
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In Honduras they say a prayer that sounds like screaming at the top of your lungs...
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Licking bowl and spoon taste and foretaste follow.
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...a falling forward that is sometimes so material that you get a look at your shoes as you fall past them...
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It's just another night in the old city, perched in the skeletal radio tower with my collection of telescopes
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Nine sated elephants and an ass sit around a decimated Thanksgiving table discussing the state of the union over the hacked to bits carcass of a twenty-three pound turkey. Two years in to The Great Communicator's Lame Duck term and the nine elephants, whose…
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It’s Independence Day. But I’m not feeling independent.
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These philosophic notions floated in my head for years and eventually helped inspire my pursuit of basic information in contemporary physics, astrophysics, astronomy, and cosmology when I was not reading or writing fiction or verse.
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