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She’s there, in a tin, loosely wound
beneath sepia tissue paper, a braid
to worry in your fingers.
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poets can kill, or at least they once could:/
perhaps poems tamed us, if they are any good.
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On the Rocks What matters these, to all, below the crest… If privilege of mind-blankness is the bay's? Remembrance breeds no fathoms of its rest- As plumb the circuit lulled, at each rephrase Of capture,…
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now the days are empty
and time has lost its head
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With green and silent industry, the plants/
convert our shit to fiber, food and breath.
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The Muse//has used/ me up
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I’ve been hacked.
Someone has taken over
my body,
is living my life in another way,
is telling racist jokes
at a party
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She asks me what she should do, and I say I don't know because I'm no good at handling fragile things. She says, let's talk about you. I say I can't - phone signal, you know. She calls me anyway, twice, then leaves a message saying that she just wanted to
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So where was I? On the curb, the stingy, gritty curb of existence, hard on the ass, as usual on the rim of it all, the ledge of success, well to tell the truth far from the ledge but about to fall off, floating on the circumference of meaning, riding a c
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hunting after dark,/
in the quiet they seemed to appear/ with every new poem I read, each new workshop, some hunting carried on/ by both animals.
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Got something inside me
hard as nails
keeps me walking upright
ain't never failed
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“Lightning has more longevity than I,”
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1.Oh yes, I'm just kicking around in the leftover moon dust you could say I'm certainly not waiting around for your satellite feed anymore certainly never ever hoping to see if your free falling hair strands still look…
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I made him stop at an AM-PM. We bought a bag of barbecue chips and a yellow rose. Those days, we were testing our keels, sloshing against whatever rose most wicked. On the way to Beth Anne's apartment, we passed a man on the shoulder heaving a couch back
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I knew I needed to visit a beach / made entirely of sharks’ teeth
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It’ll all make sense when you're sitting on an éclair chaise longue by the morning pool of coffee.
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Other pathways are more satisfactory. They are more closely attuned to music of the other world. Even so, the heat eventually burns them up.
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What are the odds of August rain in Texas?
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She parks the car and trudges insidefor her daily visithoping that the new rouge hidesthe old tears.Five years now she has been comingto see himHe looks nothing like the pictures toanyone but her.They say she should go homeand rest, relaxShe doesn't know how…
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I ordered biscuits and gravy
at the Sunset Grill,
Just before the Amber Alert
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He liked to take pictures of her, and she liked to pose. It made her horny, she said.
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Here's how it works. The clock in my therapy office ticks off the minutes I get to spend talking with each patient, forty-five in and out, regardless of the amount of distress. Less distress has the option of being shoved out earlier but…
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He just up and dropped dead one day, Charles said. Pretty tough on Karen, I opined. Charles looked the other way.
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Phoebe-Lou Adams wrote this of them
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Every morning if I don't have to go potty....
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Mosaics are a trick of the eye, seeming
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“Jesus fall the second time. You want a map? Ten shekels.”
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I offer you a peanut butter sandwich full of unconditional love
and you say I'm being controlling, so I let you eat cake, eat cake.
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