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It renders the inner ears inoperative-/ Music that once reverberated inside 
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It's not loneliness I'm afraid of. It's how I would be happy to be alone too much.

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Denial

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Then for a few seconds, maybe even a minute or two, we wallow in a sensual shower of raw emotion. Our defenses are nonexistent and we are overwhelmed with care and gratitude. Suddenly, we love our enemies and are willing to forgive our trespassers.

Doorface

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Doorface has a door for a face. Thus his name. He was born with it. The door in his face, not his name. No one is born with a name. The naming comes later.Doorface finds his unusual physiognomy mildly inconvenient. People keep trying to enter his head. No one likes it when…

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I’m aware I will never be a woman the night you leave me for another city

circles, the round

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and skirts, lovely batiks, swirl around your ankles

Dealing With a Small Box Epidemic All On Our Own

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Cartoon Campfire

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Days of Thor

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Mars' circled state is slain, no bird of Jove That roosts protected in its green youth's flush; Its storms no more bring moistness from above, From blue beads cradled in one thunder's flash. The god of War was husband once to Love: Her arms were …

Things I Wish I'd Said to M--

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Treasure that first love. And that first heartbreak. Don’t let it be the last thing.

Instinct

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They coo and gurgle in the warmth of twig and down. They are so delicate, hard to look at without thinking of death. I tell them I want for them chief among all things strength, speed, resilience.

Manifest Destiny

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Will it take the rise/ of cyber guerillas to finish it/ in the way it should be finished

Our Enormous Fat Man

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Pity would have been appropriate. Yet, townsfolk whispered behind his back. Shouldn't he do something about it. So lazy. A gluttonous swine. Hadn't his mother kept him too long at tit, breastfeeding ‘til four? Look. Look at him now. A fat man. Our enormou

Migration

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A friend's remark about androgyny, "it's overrated," she said.

Flurry

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Road Trip

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I threw my hand / at the gearshift/ the car glided off.

Love Note to/ Legal Pads

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toe and hand-/ holds against/ the shear cliff

Jesus, Borges, Jelly Roll

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It was Judge Fogarty who said “Thirty days in the market—take him away. Give him a good broom to sweep with—take him away.”

Afterworld

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We suffer// the one agony only- of having no longer/ any physical effect nor way to speak/ of what we watch to those we watch.

The Undertakers of the Dead by Unseen Hands(Young Poet at the Bus Stop with Some new Vinyl in his Hand)

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A Next Step

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The first night I met her we slow danced to George Strait songs for most of the evening and when we took a break, our talking went warm and well as we sat eating hot dogs and sipping beers until she dropped a couple of bombs, first, telling me she was married and then, that…

The patient

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He switched off the light. His wife was breathing softly. At her bedside he told her of her friends the roses, of the pretty carnation brooch he had pinned on her silk scarf, of her coquettish hat which fitted her so well. Small, simple and bright memories the heavy night…

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What purpose other than misery/ can cancer serve? And Parkinson's,/ AIDS, and STDs?

Grand

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Rock the Rhombi

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This is the place you need a third hand

In My Nephritic Dreams

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In my dreams, I watch a sand shark sleep / on a coral bed

Awaiting the End of Time

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