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She was always last.

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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.

An Italian Lunch (II)

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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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Should have washed our hands, we thought after, licking sugar-spit and dirt.

End of the World

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Dear End of the World. We're having a party. Stop by if you're in the neighborhood.

Last Poem

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or the voice that wants/ to be inscribed/ forgets the sounds

Couple Busting

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you had to actually cross a damn street, vacate your brain, and say, "you two hellions are going to combust from all this torrid public defilement."

Optical Delusion

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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,

Going Bananas

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I haven’t made the headlines yet. Maybe I never will. In a city like this, it probably takes more than this to get the helicopters in the air.

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The Uninvited Guest

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The first time I see her, she is slouched in a tire swing, pushing off with one foot and dragging the other beneath a dying pecan tree that probably hasn't made a nut in 20 years.

Touching the Ceiling is Touching the Floor, Only from Above

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1. It uncurls in your hand like an autumn leaf but fails to recall your happiness. 2. A triangle is the sum of its angles a priori. 3. Leaning on the lens of psychotropics leaves you with restless legs and akithisia. 4. Body…

Why Things Are Just OK with Me

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With such demeaning precarity, I can’t read/ anything more than a thousand words

wanna be a cowboy?

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no one likes a bitchy cowboyhike up yer britchespull yer brim down'nshut up and ridestop making petsout of peevesand idolsout of gossipinsteadmake a hobbyout of yer horseand fer godsakesseason that saddle

You Have Something I Don't Have

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So, as the lines on my face grow more pronounced, the lines on my finger prints are fading away? All I can say is that it's a damn shame it's not the other way around.

Mussel Memory

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Andreas Cappelanus taught that the word / “love” comes from the word meaning / “to fish.”

Getting There

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The monarchs that migrate to Mexico and California in the autumn every year live for only a month.

Foreign Film

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They are watching a movie about a man who cheats on his wife, whom he loves, and is so disconsolate that his wife eventually loses all patience and leaves him. They are at the point in the film where the man considers his many blunders as he walks…

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My wife thinks I should be committed.

Turbidity

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Where seldom is heard an encouraging word

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No One Will Ever Give You This Poem

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and say did you know it was written just for you? But I will. No one will walk up to you on the busy street one day and say did you know he loved you this much? But I'm telling you now. What good would a pyramid be or a hanging garden or a starry…

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Did we get Jihadi John?/ And the highway to Mosul?// What’s the score?

Galactic Butterflies

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will we become artifacts?

The Book Mind

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severe snow storm coming. I'm looking for a parking spot and listening to Machito & Charlie Parker

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@#$!

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The bungalow was unlocked. The screen door was unhooked. The trout on the counter was deboned.