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I dreamed that coffee grounds had spilled on my Buffet. There was another clarinet, a silver one, that belonged to a man not in the room, that was clean of debris.
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The night she left she claimed she fucked Bukowski.
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Shit, Marcie, I thought you were taking something. I mean you did say you were on the pill. I don’t want no screaming brat. Get rid of it.
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338 53 22
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Assholes are assholes
who do asshole things.
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Dexter is a demon. He called me an over-accessorized hot spot yesterday evening and FYI: he didn’t even kiss me. I slammed the door and left my own apartment. I slept in my car.
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He'll tell you if you listen long enough the words run together like the teeth of a zipper.
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We got this new group man--it's dynamite! I'm up front--no more bass--just front man--and this cat Jack on lead and Stokes the drummer and this outasight piano--he used to be with the Dead--
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I see his look, his impatient look.
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wear that short skirt and those high-heeled boots
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The night my mother dies we'd watched Solaris at the Quad Cinemas Afterward Hauser and I videotape each other, ask probing questions like where do you go when you die, and what is God, and who are you now? …
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The second thing Annie Riser did after receiving her diagnosis was to find a realtor in the Yellow Pages and put her house up for sale.
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I lie here sleepless and wait for the moment when I will touch...
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2096 15 11
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For one glittering moment
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if we stare into the dark long
enough, we see ourselves at some end or
beginning –
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The streets have terrible breath, it’s said, and everyone hides but the young, who have slick, naked shoulders and fragrant tobacco shreds in the linings of their empty pockets.
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I walk by the hotel where Esenin hanged himself.
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Water and its damages followed Bianca. Every time she looked up. Everywhere she looked up. Up up up up. Water stains, in darkening whorls, curling across the drywall or fiberglass panels, filling them with rot and mold.
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1748 40 24
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What used to be a scene has broken into fragments and blips of her on a screen I can’t control or manipulate.
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Acts have no meaning, but they do have / trajectory
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So, have your whiskey like a good son.
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We were always thrilled that the moon worked the night shift. In high school, often bored with the two drive-in movies, we'd sometimes go to tent revivals on our dates and get healed or get saved depending upon what that “tent-housed”…
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A cartoon of my personal insight to publishing as I know it.
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1991 36 26
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I watch my mother and my daughter, each wondering in her own quiet way about where this story will go next.
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2160 15 15
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What happens in heaven stays in heaven.
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2472 38 23
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The last time he saw his psychic, she told him you're gonna die within six months.
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I didn't notice or care that I was stripped down to just high heels, that he had placed a mirror next to the bed. I just wondered who we were looking at.
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At first when she walked in, I thought she looked like a wet dog. Then after a minute, I’m trying to wrap my mind around how perfect she is.
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I popped open the wine
with a Nike shoelace, a trick I learned on the internet
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The field opens up to us like something born.
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