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In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried

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"Tell me things I won't mind forgetting," she said. "Make it useless stuff or skip it."

The Serious Writer and Her Pussy

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One can smuggle drugs inside a pussy. (also, see tags!)

Dear God, know me, from Adam

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When God created Adam and then Eve, he thought they were fucking awesome. It's true that Eve grew on him but even so: awesome.

Space Man

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His girlfriend's probably surfing somewhere in California right now. She is an astrophysicist and a veteran and a triathlete, but she's never been up in space, like he is now, in a failing spacecraft. He knows it's failing by the way the engine sounds, like…

Mars

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Charlie pours coffee from an enameled red percolator into a white cup and the coffee is black. A colossal dragonfly, a canted helicopter, drifts left to right across the window view over the yard, making loud chugging noises, churning up snow dervishes.

A House

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an after-thought of scattered pines

Something Better Than This

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It's one of those raw, wrung out Yonge Street Saturday mornings. The smog-gray sky is just congealing into blue over the buildings and concrete.

Sanctuary

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On the seventh day of their travels, they wander through a gap in the high walls on an avenue between Chelsea and The Village. An ivy-framed plaque reads "Grace Cathedral." Grace defies…

My First Serial Killer

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My serial killer can't commit.

Recent Rejection Letters

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Dear Meg, Thank you for submitting your breasts to our evening last night. Your cleavage has been carefully considered, but unfortunately I've decided not to explore further. That said, remember that I am a fan of women in general; my tastes, biases, and opinions…

The Big Dipper

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She was proud of her breasts, which were large, adult size. I didn't have any breasts yet, but the doctor said not to worry.

10,000 Dollar Pyramid

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During the course of her life Cleo screwed every single President.

Pleiku Jacket

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Our flag-draped coffins float to the surface of an uncharted sea and we appear together—patriots both—on the cover of Life Magazine.

In the nude

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The Italians live on top of the ruins of Roman cities and medieval settlements, of the towns and villages of the Visigoths and the Vandals, gesticulating, fornicating, craving poems, like all of us.

Bad Marie (An Excerpt)

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Marie knew that she should get out of the tub. She understood that Ellen was at the point of explosion. But Marie was too invested in imagining the picture she made at that very moment. As if through Benoit Doniel's eyes. As if it was a scene in a movie.

Problems Pretty Girls With Pretty Faces Face

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I think about my husband, who is dead, who has left me in this position.

Making it Right

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A girl stretched out on the long backseat of the Greyhound bus, her head resting on a bright pink overnight case decorated with colorful stickers announcing the places she intends to go: Paris Cairo Hong Kong Rome.

This Is Cactus Land

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I cannot regain my balance

The Hollow

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They live on the edge of town. There is a cornfield behind their house. When the wind blows, it is like the hands of many children clapping.

Sit In Here

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"You," he says, "Sit in here."

What Some Boys Do

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I squeeze the soft bag tighter between my legs.

I Am Not a Corpse

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A corpse cannot cry.

A Certainty and Not the Poem I Meant to Write

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fluorescent pastries behind glass

Naked Ladies

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She said she wanted to find a man who could appreciate a woman who gave great head.

For Carol Novack

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Touching one of these special stones will bring out your own unique song.

The Artist Alone

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all sinew and shade, soft curve of the hip

Like a Pop Song This Is the Head of a Sunflower

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This is the head of a sunflower as well as the butt of a beetle as well as the membrane with its busy veins of traffic between sky and cloud as well as the upsidedown skeleton of a raindrop as well as the groove twisting in a line around your sweet kissable…

A Scattering of Rivals

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I planned to go to the ends of the earth to avoid rejection.

Moving Day

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I didn’t hear that Duncan Pratt had been killed until I’d been out of the Army for two weeks and had gone four days without a single thought about that final year in Vietnam.

Pig Girl

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"In the camps we ate whatever garbage they gave us." This according to my mother. "We had no choice." But I had eaten pig with gusto at an anti-Semite's table. Somehow this had to be undone. Burial in soil was all I could imagine.