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You can't always get what you want, and fortunately, that's sometimes a good thing.
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At this stage of the game you don't even matter enough to have an asshole.
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I hold a key to feel its pull, and follow where it leads. Once, because the moment, key, and direction felt so right, I ended up on the streets naked. A police officer threatened me with handcuffs. I laughed, mesmerized by the cuff's clink, their never-ending circles,…
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He's kneeling on the floor of his West Village apartment, by the door, asking me to leave. He first said he saw someone once a week. But what he means is that they sleep together every night, as they live together, and spend their Sundays together.
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Your honour stinks of failed fishing trips to Galway.
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Grasping for control over
social consciousness Because cigarettes are too deadly
and so is anorexia
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Enumerate the small delights/ this bright first morning
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Shhhh, my husband is trying to write...
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Is every librarian a poet at heart? I don't know, but a group of librarians recently put their heads together and came up with these library-themed Valentine's Day poems: Roses are red Your book's overdue You've had it for months Which is…
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I assemble myself daily//
from the ready-mades/
of a fast talking world,
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Life is not always quixotic.
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I. he leans his messy head against the walland contemplates his wild mistakeshe discovers a nest of red spidersoutside his rotting basement doorhe watches television in his socksand…
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A nun once told me to watch my tongue. This is not an easy thing to do.
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I'm complex. You're complex. We're all complex.Who gives a shit? Man's fallen and he can't get up.I consulted Jacques the Atheist for advice: he toldme to beat it. "But I lack the proper stigma!" I cried.Once a month, I volunteer at the dressage parlor.On Tuesdays, I…
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It wasn't the same as taking a course with Ginsberg. Everyone knew Ginsberg. Nick Cave, too, everyone knew him. Waiting lists were full months in advance for those classes, everyone sent in resumes and writing samples, praying, begging to be included. Lish was just an…
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Hold your breathThe smoke here is thick, I knowIce underfoot, let it burn, let it go, but don't ask me to take your handYou have never been so patient as to sit and waiteven for the sun to riseWatch, now, here it comescresting over the hill as one large eyeboiling the…
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He was entirely guilty of what he had done and wanted that to be acknowledged and understood by the arresting officer.
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neon carrots and atomic tangerines
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Six months later, she was teaching theology / to refugees from est.
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I could have written her as is with long bushy hair, skinned knees, overhauls, blueberry stains on her fingers and teeth because she eats them too much. I love her better this way, blueberry-stained and wild....
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How to Boil Water
How to Cook an Egg
How to Eat
How to Think
How to Love
How to Die
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A full moon in the morning sky, the sun hasn't bothered to rise and why should it, see how unnecessary it is, left over from a sleepless night, it stayed there, in suspense, waiting to see what you could possibly get up to next. A patron saint for lost ca
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We were over Casper, Wyoming, when some terrorists tried to take over the airplane. They had concealed weapons.
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I’m a suicide prevention counselor for teens. Most of the time I answer phones and tell kids not to kill themselves over their boyfriends and girlfriends and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, etc. I’m not even sure what the number is—1-800-DONT-DIE or something li
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Our disappearance would register/
as the movement of a sand grain/
on a windy beach full of sand.
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For Sale: Clean Depends, Never Worn
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I lay on a table in a cold room in one of those little blue gowns that open in back.
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If you find a nickel-plated Colt .38 lying on top of a worn copy of King Lear, you’ll know who you’re dealing with.
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