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20th Century Boy

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The night I screamed you out of my life for good, I fed your confettied photo to swirling toilet, a ticker tape parade and dead fish burial rolled into one. Later I found the box, a jiffy…

October

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October Unruly flocks of geese trumpet and bleat, wings beat, hidden in a shroud of mist over still water Newly fallen leaves lay sodden and silent on the stony path, their season spent Cornstalks lean in rusty fields, crepe paper strands fluttering like feathers on…

evening cigarette

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It's short.

to a gregarious stranger

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Three lines.

Acclimation

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Before I grew used to it I would wake to the sound of the Amtrak whistle echoing down along the tracks behind our trailer park and wonder who was hurtling where through the dark night and across this wide Illinois prairie

Empires Of Mice

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[...] a population so conspicuous in their compromise they fail to see the nakedness of their condition.

*cute little space bat with scissors*

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I AM A FIRE SWAN! THIS IS MY QUILT! YOU ARE MY QUEEN!

The beautiful young girls from high school

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Can you tell me how much the elephants are please?

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Of course sausages don't say a lot. I cannot cook. Evasive some have even called them enigmatic. I think by which they mean that were you on a nature trail they would be difficult to see or find. Brought up well the best mostly smile. The elite of these smiles is given by…

Honorary Shaman

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The Strummer on my page thrashes his guitar in the back seat of a cherry red Cadillac convertible

Why Men Compete

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It starts on the Fallopian Speedway:

Becoming

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Ego bereft of consistency Betrays a heart hungering to toll. Unable to trust its will Or harbor imaginary gods, It gains a hold melding into a role whose proven viability Can give convincing cover To buy time to fabricate An identity that feels unique, Yet…

LH 1787

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How did Hannibal get elephants through that?

Date

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Good morning, blind date; like Milton's daughters, I will read to you.

Prayer to Ray Bradbury

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Dear Ray Bradbury, yesterday was my thirteenth birthday, and I could not stop thinking of the Mennonite girl in the milkwhite bonnet, the squint of her eye, the twitch of her anxious finger on the trigger, sudden holes bloomi