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I know you,
ladies and gentlemen
We see the near future
through you
Your factual face
as you sit indoors
Youthless
In your ordinary chair
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this is one of those
"there are two kinds of people"
sort of things.
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It's important to sound
human, I know
To get fragile
near your
mother
I myself
get glimpses
now and then
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After too much
I had forgotten how to fly.
There was a small owl with me
on the old dirt road by the wind.
It was a very dark gray,
like an ash.
Its beak moved, it opened and shut,
opened and closed,
but I had also forgotten the language
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standing hereknee deep in daydreams watching the day sky changepinks and bluesmelt with smooth yellow huesif i could only tastethissunset taffyridingat night in my uncle's convertiblewatching the…
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She chalked her breakfast companion up to a hallucination, thanks to the fun sized amount of painkillers splashing around in her system and promptly fell asleep, excusing herself for being such a bad hostess.
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to get someone
anyone
to warm up to him
and come out of their
cloaks of uniformity
like the glazed
doughnuts of the
human soul
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Other womenother writershave not hadthis easy lifethat I endure.Struggling tolive by theirwits, their workthe klink of coinsin their handswhat they haveearned themselves.Children thy haveraisedperhaps raisingthemselves;neglected, alone.Or not havingenoughto eat, to read.My…
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Inside my body she lives in the darkwhich is sometimes a forest that she cannot traversesometimes the thickness of tar that she cannot escapesometimes the dark is in her, sometimes she is the darkthat lives inside my body.Her frail girl's body, long braids hanging down her…
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A bunch of punk lambs
standing around eating lion
at the Lamb Eating Lion Buffet
How can they go on
eating like that
knowing what they kno
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That’s not just a
trinket on her finger,
that’s a rock, a fortress,
a castle. No one
can scale those walls
except Joe Sixpack,
slumped beside her
at the airport.
They’re not a match.
I give it
5 years, max.
Not even.
Joe
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i was jus countin' your heartbeats, Emmie
and you know what?
i think they's the same as mine!
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A rock group named Stuck Gas Pedal. Another named Tweezer. A group of young punk-rockers wearing neckerchiefs named Mein Kampfire. But wait, there’s more.
A song called “We Were Being Facetious,” co-written by them all.
Lost Flyswatter. That
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“Economic Stress in the U.S. is Easing More Slowly”
brought to you straight from the office of Mumbo Jumbo
in Wash D.C. (as in Wash your Dirty Closet)
All day long the junior interns sit around their
squeaky clean, orderly desks
thinking
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