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A Paris Stop

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Outside a cafe in Paris a discarded bicycle leans against a street lamp. Years ago a man cycling home from work stopped for a coffee and there, by chance, met the love of his life.Under gray skies, the awning dripped a single wet chill down my collar. We had…

Paddy On Crack

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He lies like a dead deer across the hood of his bed.

DISPATCH

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Go speak anarchy and wilderness in color deaf ears.

King Shit Kicker

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There is nothing at all frantic about this feverish process.

Tuscumbia, Alabama

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My dad at the wheel, my mother's ulcer inflamed, she puked her way across northern Alabama that summer, from Huntsville and the rusting rockets to Tuscumbia, the farthest any of us had been west. We drove through raw, blistered towns,…

Breaking Bread at Al Qalzam

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My first time alone with the women in Saudi Arabia...

The Nude Who Left The Painting

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Bisexual, crazy, an adulteress, I am not, was never in thought or deed--In Miami, I only took him to his home to be held by the gentle phallus of conscience, empathy, remorse--All we did was done...

Abortion Hallucination

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Carlight passing late at night on a street of an ugly / precinct lying deceiving the unwary who think that it leads home

Tractors

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Beneath their feet bedrock stretched a hundred miles

Uncanny Valley, Goodbye

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When not enough is left to utterThe syllables it takes to say,Goodbye--Disassembled and developed,Laid upon the ground,Like the girded gridlockOn your smog befitted brow...Goodbye.And what if I said, hello?What if I said, good day?Would it change your sunken bodyAnd repair…

Crass Rags

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The cold glazed ambivalence that abuses anyone interested in getting to know you.

feathering

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amusing, muse, music: lyriscissorcisms.

The Great Wall of Shame

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Had a dream where I’m standing by the wall of the Holocaust, reading the names, and it’s taking forever

That Train Went Off

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towards better, safer times. We were waving oh goodbye good luck to all our many selves leaning around the little quick rectangular windows like some kind of beatnik …

work in progress

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I want not your signature on a kiss Nor you to hold my cock like pen and ink.My skin should be no document for your hand. We will evolve our love Mux the breaking sands Suck on the sea food eyes. My tongue will do the talking Your …