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It’s like faith. My battle buddy is out there, I know it, but I can’t see him, nor can I hear him. I just know he’s there, trusting he’ll do what he’s supposed to do, and he’s trusting in me.
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A sardonic moon/
surveys our plight and cackles.
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Walking those damned dogs is a pain… a PAIN every night. If it’s not urban skunks, it’s Mormons on bikes… the bastards
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sentinels in a frost-blackened field
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A dirtied light falls through/
the grimed windowpanes.
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If I should wake/
before I die,/
just shoot me through/
the one good eye.
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I watched as the light fled
from your eyes,
No slowly dimming lamp,
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they’d been pumping him
with Dilaudid at night,
to adjust his palette for what was
coming, in the soft lamp light he
watched his long fingers sprout pink
caterpillar fuzz, knuckles morphed
into hinges for Monarch butterflies,
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When the planes crashed,when the levees broke,when the ground shook,there was a song I dreamed of,humming subsonic,a chorus of voices and prayersuncorked like the little brown jugthat holds all the love and memories.In the outback, Aborigines believewe create the world by…
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She was not the usual member of the band, not the girl nextdoor, not next to any door, not a regular housekeeper or woman. She was a ditch digger, a pied, circular piper, a mouse hugger.
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They ask about WWII and he claims no kills...
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Poor, pocked Ceres- dwarf planet/
trapped among mere asteroids-
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Betty, batty from hormones, in a fanciful fit, named her daughter Lavender. Husband Don winced. Brothers Donald, John, Billy, and Tom were puzzled and pleased by this sister, this girl, who was a little bit like them, yet not like them at all. …
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He sat at the bar and waited for her. He looked at the noon drinkers with indifferent eyes.
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I told him he was just paying for his sins. He gave me a look. "Why me?" he asked.
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She learned the difference between listening and hearing, between looking and seeing.
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The three of us traveled seven hours that day and Al traveled as far in the service of finding the right tool for his writing.
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You make your art when you can and Perhaps vice versa. You really Don't know what that means? Consult your tarot. You make your Art and visualize your mind As a large pool of water. You Make your art and if you're lucky They may…
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"... I knew Willie had gone— out the back door or out the side window. I knew he probably slipped over the fence behind my house into Lou C.’s backyard..."
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It was 14:24 official eBay time. Louise had spent hours looking at over 30,000 items under “Elvis Memorabilia"
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Coward, cuckold, she taunts: So be it. He's not a young man anymore, nor as clever as he once was, or thought.
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Over his usual ham sandwich and Pepsi for lunch Uncle Waldo used to often say, “Going out in the dead of night without a flashlight is dangerous” and I'd nod but I kept slipping out, sneaking down my secret path and take a dip in the rich neighbor's pool because…
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I have become interested in Carracci / Ludovico Carracci
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chains across all the old doors
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He grew red-faced at her quiet words, "I'm pregnant."
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is every word is a small step takenaway from you that arcs back to me likea mamba's mouth. I'm not going aroundin place so much as running in circles. You can see my devilry here. You arethe truth here and that makes me the lie. You'renew morning. I'm much, much more…
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Every Monday you brought your Sunday finest to the bus stop...
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The shop is swarming with little women.
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Let’s play a game. I’m thinking of a word.
Do we have to?
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