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My job was take the falls, act the dope, finish at the wrong end of the slap stick for the blow off. I was Auguste, the fool; I drove the clown car.
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After breakfast, he dresses and heads / for the blackjack tables.
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He was a tenth grade / messiah, famous for acts of attrition.
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He introduced me to key lime pie, and for this alone I would have loved him forever. It was an innocent time for me, and I was easy to please.
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They come to mind/
like ice flowers/
on the small panes
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Lying in the dewy grass in corpse pose, the stars of heaven above him, it was hard not to let worries take over his breath...
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At the bar, she told me her name was Natasha, but she doesn’t look like one. She’s too thin and flighty for one thing. And all Natashas have a Russian accent and talk of the Motherland as if it were never cold and before it turned to borderlines and j
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Everyone is botching everything, even the rescue team. They can't get to me. I am surrounded by people who don't know a fatal wound when they see one. I am so determined to live that I become bossy.
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I thought to tell him I do not love raspberries, but blueberries, but he did not attend to the things I loved.
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They will take you, naked,
and put their tongues and fingers
into intimate, erogenous openings
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Foxes haunted her dreams. Islands full of foxes, truckloads of vixen.
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I drove to you in April / and you loved me all through Illinois
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Whole frogs are/
too difficult.
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While you can,/
find the beautiful
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I heard today about your friend
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My father failed in business in the 1950's when Dutch Elm Disease killed the elm trees in our Kansas town. He owned a fabric store on a brick street lined on both sides by elms, the doomed trees that transformed every Midwestern town into a magical kingdom and sidewalks and…
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Highway 45N cost me four dogs when I was growing up. Actually, having our backyard abut the highway was the real problem. It got to be where I was afraid to get too attached. We lost Nicky,…
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Just bring me his head, that cerebral kiln of hot, ruddy verbiage and cadence.
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No one means to go that way, on an errand to the mall....
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Even solid seeming concrete creeps/
in time to form the faint smile of deflection./
A marble rolls along the catenary grin.
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He wore his hip in his hips, his lipsShe wanted to know if he would lick the edgesWhen he pulled the coffee cup from his mouthA bit of foam clung to his moustacheShe watched it there, wondering if he wouldTwirl it off with his fingersOr lick it, his tongue darting out like…
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On the eve of celebrating their patron saint at the public house, one of his particularly cabbaged mates was bold enough to ask him about his cranial deformity.
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I don’t remember the name of the boy in high school
or if I cried at his funeral
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The last time they made love she could feel the hint of pain and loss which would become her.
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His head was usually full of ah ha!, a luminescence that folded around obstacles like smoke.
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Jake remembers that Amy told him once that she thought that somehow he would always be a part of her life. That was before she went to Spain and married an American bull fighter.
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Within seconds, I strip her free of all that she wears. Her toes are polished the color of plump pink tulips.
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