Stories tagged death

Sleeping Through the Apocalypse

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The thing in the bed trying to see over the enormity of the loud and chuckling wife to the face of the Dad wasn’t real. It wasn’t You because You weren’t alive. You were neither the woman you’ve finally, impossibly become, nor the dead girl on the highway

Six Feet Over

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I’ve paid my dues in this dimension/ so show me where the rest of them are

John Bonham

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There is an empty space, between every note in rock 'n' roll, where they have buried John Bonham,

D Evil in the D

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when the devil dies he divides enough evil for everybody

Leaving like slow rain

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I used to dream about flying over the ocean in nothing but my shirt, now I dream about driving through fucking Kentucky.

Year End Closeout

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At some point, indifference// will swallow the small gasps./ The appalling will become the norm.

Moon collar

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I don't think dogs like to die with the pack. The smell of them rotting brings trouble in the wild,

Dust to Dust

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Perhaps archaeologists will unearth our bodies and miss our minds.

Velazquez in the National Gallery

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I visited you later that month, the tubes and lights and charts chronicling your descent. I held your hand in the brightness of that room, amazed by the translucence of your papery skin and the isobaric schema carrying blood here and there.

The Day Nixon Died

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"I remember thinking, 'Good.'

Venison

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It is hunting season in Jersey today. They say “There are too many deer in Jersey today.”

Death Is No Big Deal.

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The suite of dark rooms/ extends forever./ It’s no big deal.

What We Give

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Oh, what jealousy does to us! What love does to the living!

November Is The Month Of Dying

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Two weeks after All Souls’ Day, he trudges through the overgrown pasture behind the farmhouse, his head bent, intent on his footing, a shovel his walking stick.

Terror Management Theory: The Joy Knee

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I could reach out and grab this world by the p...