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Each angry man leaps from a boy tempered by existential harm.
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With such demeaning precarity, I can’t read/
anything more than a thousand words
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I say her- it might be him-/
but from a distance I supply the details I prefer.
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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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No twinkle- so, planet, not star./
And bright, so either Venus/
or Jupiter. I’m guessing, Jupiter.
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They wear their bodies recklessly, these cempazuchitl,
these flowers of the dead.
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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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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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When you think I'm not looking,
I always am.
You say it's like nicotine, your best analogy as a non-smoker.
The kind of hit that is hard to live without and isn't it human nature,
you ponder.
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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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There's a witch in Laurel Canyon.She made Wes a promise.Her bungalow smelled like Parliaments. Parliaments, garlic frying in olive oil. Parliaments, garlic frying in olive, and a freshly opened pack of Red Vines. Wes could have curled up into a ball and fallen asleep on her…
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Magda drove up the road and circled the park — her usual route for shopping and other duties. She would attend first to her son Gino's piano lessons. Delighted, though quite surprised, at his choice of instrument, she opened her music book for beginners and played a…
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The cornbread for dressing cools./
The cranberries boil with one cup each/
of sugar and water. The aromas are nice
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When I got out I didn't buya new suit of clothes, stepinto a bar, or bargainfor an hour with a whore.I walked from McGee Streetover to Russell and wonderedif Bus 16 still went out of its wayto loop around the traffic knotat the shopping mall. It'd drop you thereif you had…
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Your first new politics of cruelty;
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Is every librarian a poet at heart? I don't know, but a group of librarians recently put their heads together and came up with these library-themed Valentine's Day poems: Roses are red Your book's overdue You've had it for months Which is…
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everything moved in circles
like the music, the booze and the drugs
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... and August's drought/
will yellow lawns, singe the shrubs,/
and amplify cicada song.
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The Muse//has used/ me up
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What are the odds of August rain in Texas?
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youthful pin oaks grant solemn attention to the aluminum gurney
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Dread and drudgery sour each day
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Lou Reed was sitting in CBGB,
I was sitting on Greenwich Ave. and West 10th street.
I didn't know him then and I didn't know him later either,
but we were both there.
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Let us not save each other
for special occasions.
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fog settles over the mountain laying a ghostly blue shroud
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