1375 19 9
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I know this: the sky is vast here//
and the sun unforgiving/
to any architecture not the best
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1323 11 8
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“The beginning was good. That’s what he likes. The moment when you’re driving in the open air and your hair is flying and your skirt is whipping up around your knees, and he’s smoking, of all things, and happy and looking at you."
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1031 18 9
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Each day, I lose more words-/
nouns and verbs- but especially//
proper names. People and places
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1461 12 9
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My man wears chartreuse shoes.!
He wears chartreuse shoes like a new king
right there on Main St.!
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1187 17 9
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let’s press our words into the clay/
in language so completely dead/
we have to re-imagine it.
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1329 13 10
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the ugliness will not be denied
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288 19 10
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1367 13 10
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1958 10 7
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I don't remember much before my brother moved out, but one thing that stands out in my mind was the bathroom we shared. He'd pull a stool up to…
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1316 10 10
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As if to ask if I'm okay, as if to ask aren't we the same two on this wet December morning as ever, as yesterday, a month ago even, she shoots me a look as I stand by the bed, then her sane mild brown eyes…
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1709 17 9
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“I found a recipe on the net and now my hair smells of pumpkin.”
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1214 9 11
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The brain taints everything it brings to us/
with its limited apparatus, its precepts,//
all the things it thinks it knows.
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1524 19 10
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A constellation appears in the shape of Van Gogh’s missing ear.
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1406 17 8
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"Your mother does sailors," the parrot screeched.
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2056 17 7
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Dear Erin,And people call ME a pussy. Fuck you,The Cunt
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1310 15 9
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We liked the orderly Newtonian/
with its fundamentalist action/
and reaction, its rules
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1785 10 10
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the Way that can be mapped leads nowhere.
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1916 11 8
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The voice in the sand: "If it has soul you must funk it."
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1711 11 10
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It was when the party hit a lull and a woman wearing too much rouge was going on about her parakeets that Tom decided to set down his bourbon glass and pull out his gun.
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1224 17 9
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This will be the century of infinite sadness,/
sadder even than the Twentieth/
with its expansive catalog of horrors.
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1241 12 10
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"S- E- X -- ever heard of it?"
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1184 17 9
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A woman who is, say, a culinary arts champion or an heiress devoted to literature such as Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman) or Peggy Guggenheim might be able to turn me on, turn me out, turn me around.
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1160 9 10
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Fine gradations of the fractional/
fissure the eggshell whole we crave
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1805 12 10
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by myself next to just one wide-eyed moment of wild blued out ocean. You know the one I mean. I don't want to have to speak to you, or even- alone- to myself. I'd like to be left inside the poem it makes me feel without having to get up and pee every…
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1835 7 5
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He was here and then he was gone. He wasn't at my ex-wife's house either. On Tuesday we were at the circus and that's the last I saw him. I jumped into my '68 Beetle, one step above a clown car, and I stopped by The Big Top. The carnies were there, smoking cigarettes and…
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1036 7 5
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I'm hearing a noise. I can't see it. It's hiding and seems to be coming from the other side of the creek. With boots on I slowly wade across. The water makes its light lapping sounds. Reaching the bank, I search for the noise. It must have a face, suntanned and warm, that I…
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1337 20 9
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feeling empty as the
bottom of a bottle
dry as a bone
in death valley alone
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1186 11 10
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1372 10 10
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I watch from the cabin window the death of the sun, hear the howl of the new-born storm.
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910 12 8
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My name's Barbara and don't call me Barbie if you want to be my friend.
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