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March 16, 2006 My mail, e-mail, and phone calls go from the ridiculous to the sublime. Apologies for the cliché, but I can't resist its perfect applicability: In my mailbox today yet another catalogue of boob jobs in bikinis and an invitation to explore…

Drinking an Orange Julius While Listening to Pink Floyd

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I was strapped for cache

Love?

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How to Travel with Your Demons (2)

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The love of hundreds of people, seemingly, rain down from the sky, but its not like when the cock hits the good spot inside you. And everybody who is reading this knows this is true. We all know what that feels like, that aha moment, that eiphany, like,

Cymbals Guy

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cymbals guy — another way of saying hey turdshitface haul your skinnyass to the front of the bus.

We Used To Be Sharks

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I was sitting on the therapist’s couch in someone else’s boxer shorts.

The Boy who killed Christ

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He was on his way home from school on a dank winter afternoon when the attack came from nowhere, launched like a missile across the Gaza Strip. Suddenly he lay on his back with Jonathan Love pounding him in the face.

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what drives them here?

Things I Should Have Done - #4

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I should have created a first-date questionnaire heartaches ago.

Hands

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pressing my hands into the voice in the bed,

Strange Fruit of Unrewarded Labor

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Poets are more like Jesus,/ suffering the cross

She Waited for Him

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what smells like love may not be love at all

Windowers

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naturally, the windowless ones are the worst.

Sorrows Know How to Swim

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That night he dreamed about a duel with toothbrushes....

Sinister Age of the Draft

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The so-called good, a weak but whiny lot, who actually clung to that abstract of "justice for all," would tattle to Mrs. Pufry...Mzzz Puffy, she hit me...Mzzz Puffy he said the bad word...Mzzz Puffy, I gotta go...Mzzz Puffy, Thomas is hanging in the cloak

Stone Cold Sexy

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You drink in women's bodies, without reserve. You take a sip at the post office, a gulp at the gym, a teensy taste when we walk together. Tonight you even indulged as we were looking for a parking spot and passed some twenty-somethings, then followed up w

Exit 30

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They meant no harm when they flooded farms in its swirls and eddies

It Stops

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We made our escape on grimy streets under skies filled with crows, flapping like litter in the wind.

Twenty.

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His face is lined, lost, resigned,

Self Portrait with Google

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Try it with and without/ middle name or middle initial.// Try different keywords.

First Job

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I thought each day died inside the clock.

Bad Back

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Sharpie marked, Free Still Works

Disassembly

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Maybe the thing is over by now. They have gathered up all the pictures and mementos of our dad’s life and hauled them away.

Not Calculable

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saw the world was a mess I did nothing about it, poured myself some apple juice

Transformations

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Some nights now I sit at my window

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The Intervention

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Ethics

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If I wanted cautious I wouldn't be in her bed. She would only sleep with her husband. Adultery is not for pussies. So I dive back into the conversation which has made my dick limp and ask where I'm wrong in our post-coital chatter and she says it doesn't

Prairie Yields

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The river’s not/ a river but/ a FEMA map/ of flooding probabilities.

Minnesota Menage

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I talk to her, whispering endearments and flattery. I tell her how incredible it feels to be between her legs.