1060 11 9
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So, as the lines on my face grow more pronounced, the lines on my finger prints are fading away?
All I can say is that it's a damn shame it's not the other way around.
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4131915
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"You're publishing too much too / quickly. We think that's unhealthy. We want you / to slow down. You're becoming a fame whore."
|
4162714
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At some point, my lottery number/
was in the mid 300s. I was safe/
for whatever reason. No need/
to burn my draft card.
|
2741814
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There are things we must not say.
|
2852213
|
Only scotch and cheap champagne/
retain their reliable flavors.
|
1912812
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With such demeaning precarity, I can’t read/
anything more than a thousand words
|
3412412
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One can watch the grass green/
in response. One can watch the world green/
in response.
|
2781613
|
The body is an endless safari
filled with rhino sightings
and encounters with antelope.
|
3221410
|
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3552311
|
|
2901712
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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…
|
2721612
|
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...
|
3232111
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I am not the wind./
I am a stone eroded by the wind
|
2911411
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They wear their bodies recklessly, these cempazuchitl,
these flowers of the dead.
|
2861711
|
I couldn’t parse the grammar of her body
nor decode the secret softness of her neck.
|
2471710
|
The list of things to live for/
shortens with age. The list of regrets/
lengthens.
|
2651511
|
|
1381611
|
“Have the cousins arrived?”
|
45688
|
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.
|
1831811
|
|
2792010
|
I invited Van Gogh over for some drinks and a chat. I'm talking about Vincent.
|
2921510
|
It was all about the war.
|
3221210
|
|
3131410
|
|
327139
|
"You've got white privilege and hot privilege," a Latina friend
told me in 2015 when we shared
the same taste
in dollar store blue lipstick.
|
193179
|
They left me on a gurney for hours...
|
338189
|
|
170159
|
heart-shaped stones
love, devotion
no way
|
226109
|
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…
|
291179
|
...a session/
of hide and seek/
among the syllables.
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