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The box thuds at your feet: mug, plant, wedding photo, the 25-year pen.
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When we say "Nanoism is looking for twitter-fiction serials for its current contest," this is one example of what we mean.
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I hate turnstiles and revolving doors
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Unless we see it, probe it,
Name it, star by star, and feel
This awful, tenuous gratitude.
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She connects to you
via snarling vines
& worm-woven tunnels.
Drops Roman numerals
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they were open weekends if we needed to bring him in for euthanasia.
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and watch the bird play and squirrel play/
and the twitching of cottontail noses
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I am sitting on our porch in the middle of the night. I can't sleep. The stars look like runway lights. Out of boredom, I reach out my hand to connect the distant dots. The tip of my finger hits…
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I want you to kiss me like you’re listening to my tongue. I want you to hear the rhythm of my heart through my lips. Can you feel what I’m telling you? If you’re entering my borders, it doesn’t matter where - my mouth, my pussy, my ear... you’d better pay
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I talk wands and magic and how women aren't supposed to care,
but I do, and she talks length and girth.
Her fiancé has neither,
she makes an illustration with her pinky
and says that if they don't marry within the year,
she's dumping his ass
and we
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You wanted a love poem written just for you. / Here it is. Don’t look askance.
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...when they entered eager lungs hungry from deep and sweaty love
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--"Look at us," she murmurs. "Tristan and Isolde without the adultery."
--"Well, you can't have everything."
--"No? I heard otherwise."
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Practice has perfected disengagement.
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There is a small church in the south of Italy, with a stained-glass window depicting the sister of John The Baptist.
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It is indisputable that poets love roadkill...
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The police states of German National Socialism/
and the Soviet Union are but pencil studies
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Before my mother died, she developed an unhealthy relationship with Sylvia Plath. Under the faded florescent lights of the university they would speak to each other, as I quietly did my homework. I was only seven, but I knew something was the matter. I…
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By Jackson, you called and said, I'll be too drunk to drive. Hell, if I do my very best, I could be blind by Shreveport.
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I am constricted by rings. The weight of self crushes me.
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WπHπAπT with its pi signs denotes the way the inquiry felt and follows in strategy those inventors in language I estimate highly.
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Inevitability: it's what's for dinner.
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I caught sight of him standing near the nails.
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The one thing I believe in is collapse./
Abandoned buildings collapse. Civilizations//
collapse. Financial bubbles collapse./
Stars and galaxies collapse. Falling//
is something that comes quite naturally/
to puffed up things.
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I'm slim, baby, caramelized as a Slo-Poke buried in the fatty acids of some old dog's guts. The way they creep, frantic with finesse, free, locking their eyes in the dental mirror. It's wrong, maybe, but who'd dare to declaw them? Look at it from their angle, the one that…
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Breasts don't make you a woman, but no one told me that.
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Light slunk in from under a door, but just a sliver.
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I dream of benzene rings/
and polymer shrouds
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