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Dear Brandon Lee: I know that you're dead and can't respond to letters, but I've always felt a connection to you.

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The jail, where I stayed for 48 hours, gave me enough information to write a 180-page book, something I resisted setting out upon due to the insult of it.

My First Winter in Massachusetts

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My first winter in Massachusetts feels medieval: cold, dark, and endless.

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At five o’clock in the afternoon, at five o’clock / in the afternoon

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friends come in dreams

Let’s Us Not Exaggerate

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Call him a hobo or homeless or bum or junkie.

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Went back to his cab and returned with a whip...

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No. No. No.

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We discussed the epic poems/ and agreed to write a new one.

The Ballad of the Summer Grains

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It is a day of swallows and grasshoppers, of white clouds and suntanned arms. In the yellow field wheat ears burn, lit by fantasies. One of wheat, one of rye. Summer love, holiday love is in the air. Under the thickness of the harvest, their roots search, call each other.…

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I couldn’t parse the grammar of her body nor decode the secret softness of her neck.

Paris in the the Spring

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he thought of her / longingly

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Five micros

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Children imagine dying all the time, especially when someone in their life, someone close, has died. Children's games often include pretend dying, flopping around after being shot for about three minutes, choking, falling to the ground and…

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We'll Thelma-and-Louise it, I urged, Bonnie-and-Clyde it, she bettered, Sundance-and-Butch it, I proffered but she was already leaning in for a kiss.

The Right Thing

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His feet are the size of thumbs, the segments of his toes no larger than grains of rice.

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How could he care less what those below thought, when everything below him was demonstrably beneath him?

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I visited the grave of Rimbaud. / It was pale blue

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Mortality

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The list of things to live for/ shortens with age. The list of regrets/ lengthens.

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Love hurts... Really.

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Stupidity is not a mask; it is the face / and it is the face that betrays us / always.

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Maybe it takes as much fortitude To forget As it does To remember.