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The Strange Ones

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In the morning, I lay on my side and ran a finger down the girl’s back, lightly tracing her spine. I remarked on the whiteness of her skin.

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Pirate

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When I got out I didn't buy a new suit of clothes, step into a bar, or bargain for an hour with a whore.

Old Penny

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Nothing about it// is attractive- its color, it’s design,/ it’s market value. I leave it be and watch

Manet Nightmare

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the tall, thin ectomorph sat on the verdant, green grass as the unclothed naked woman on the Sunday-picnic blanket poured white cow’s milk into a vodka shot glass

Gecko

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“Hrrumph!” was almost audible as she turned/ to sniff behind the chifferobe for fresh/ green trophies.

SEPTEMBER GOLD or DAISY'S SONG

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We left Louisville two weeks after daddy died...

The Turning

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A brief colorful season/ and then the fall as winds/ break the hold the leaves have

Call to Arms

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I call upon all cashiers in dungarees... I call upon the baristas in rags... I call upon those whose sinister principles tax the weakness of their conscience... I call upon all those deracinated by dreaming big...

And We're Catching The Bus

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On the bus Jenna looked out the window at the bleak fuckscape.

Collectors

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what do you collect?

Low Dose Yoga

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Names are forbidden here. So is apology.

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Forever KAP

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She mustn't...

Claudine

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She lifts her head, nose heavenward. There’s a wet spot on my dress from our lovemaking, its aroma as heady as Claudine’s bouillabaisse. I hope she smells it.

But Not For Me

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So when they shake a finger, when they yell, she remembers Miss Whalen saying, “It’s not for keeps.”

When I Last Saw Gina

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Wings

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He knows I talk to angels, what he would call angels. I don’t talk to him.

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When you need a vacation...from everything.

Pork Rinds

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Precipitants

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we’ll never win/ the ongoing battle with dirt.

Removals

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Empty Spaces

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Who you are

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Straight Out of the Can

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My other brother, Mike, has been camping out with the Carter boys down the street. For breakfast, he had beans, straight out of a can, and they were the best thing he ever ate. “These are the best,” he told them. “The best beans?” Joe, t

Dementia

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They should have shot me when I turned 80, a bullet right between my sunken eyes.

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Boringer's Theory

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If Simpkin believed in reincarnation, which he did not, as he was a philosopher, not a religious fanatic, he might have thought he was Boringer reincarnated.

TRANSLITERALIZATION

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The snapdragon has now achieved absolute resonance, the gateways on either side are fully opened wide with beautiful iridescent curtains billowing out in high frequency spectrum waves producing a very pleasant ecstatic effect within observer's sensory app