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Each angry man leaps from a boy tempered by existential harm.
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There are things we must not say.
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Only scotch and cheap champagne/
retain their reliable flavors.
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With such demeaning precarity, I can’t read/
anything more than a thousand words
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One can watch the grass green/
in response. One can watch the world green/
in response.
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Bruce kept his seat, waiting for those in the aisle to begin filing out. But they weren’t moving, and neither was he.
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A starved hunchbacked figure covered in blanket gently steers a one eyed dog along with him. A four legged shadow serving as his longtime companion against the all-consuming vacuum of the universe. A friend for all times.A thin scar runs from his cheekbone to…
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No twinkle- so, planet, not star./
And bright, so either Venus/
or Jupiter. I’m guessing, Jupiter.
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It's the little things that trip us
up: a small hole in a level field,
an innocuous root in a well-trod
path, a disinclined sidewalk...
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I am not the wind./
I am a stone eroded by the wind
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They wear their bodies recklessly, these cempazuchitl,
these flowers of the dead.
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I couldn’t parse the grammar of her body
nor decode the secret softness of her neck.
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The list of things to live for/
shortens with age. The list of regrets/
lengthens.
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“Have the cousins arrived?”
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They left me on a gurney for hours...
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Cafés just aren´t cool anymore
unless they boast walls of exposed brick, pipes,
half a chair nailed to the ceiling,
mis-matched furniture back-breakingly uncomfortable.
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I invited Van Gogh over for some drinks and a chat. I'm talking about Vincent.
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It was all about the war.
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After becoming single at age 62, I joined an online dating site. After a year of perusing profiles and meeting men for coffee, staying single is starting to look better and better to me. But I've stayed on the site, in part for the pure enjoyment of…
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...a session/
of hide and seek/
among the syllables.
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2931510
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when the mirror cracks
my eyes won't cry
it's a perfectly
respectable (romance)
between her and i
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294209
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feeling empty as the
bottom of a bottle
dry as a bone
in death valley alone
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I was looking for a house in the French countryside. A small farm, to be precise, one I could buy and rent out. With separate accommodation for me to live in during summer. A place in which I could continue with my studies under a different sky, in the warm weather, the…
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rheumy eyes wink, gnarled hands pantomime
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