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"Living is easy with eyes closed."--John Lennon "While there is no basic difference between human and animal capacities for suffering and pleasure, human beings are different in one important way. We have the ability to reflect on what we do, the power to act…
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Looks Like the Sea is Alwaysdreaming of doing somethingelse besides quietly sloshingaround but can't quite manageit. And I can't find properwords I know so believe meright now. Honestly the onlything speaking directlyto me here is that softlycurled pink cloud…
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Billy the Kid is more bloodshot than / Jesus’ eyes the day after, and his head hurts / more than the dog / he kicked in the side / this morning.
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Clear of the spiders, witches, and /skeletons hung / from the cherry trees downtown / he steers, no, pilots / the Plymouth down North 61.
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My soul was pulled out the pupil of my eye
/ into a nigger playing guitar / (it’s red and old, there’s a cross there) / He pushed a shopping cart full of loudspeakers / down to the furthest street of Me
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You only gain what you giveaway in measure. I like howyou've managed to eat an enormousamount of time off the clock.It's your face, too, I want you to see.After you've collected all themust-have experiences whatare you going to do with them?Now we'll…
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"I like God alright but I don't understand anything he's talking about."--Sarah GambitoThe moon is asdull tonight asa broken tooth;each wideningstar softly drips.I can't help itif you were theone able tolet go of ourcertain dream. Thismoon is a lostshoe,…
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Day One: the Blind Stupidities make a movie, leave popcorn messThis is the perfect shape for the hole you leftin my head. What good is a heart really? Nothingworks like love did and everything quits after love leaves.Every action is a lie picked up and carried awayby a…
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"All life is present every moment."--Clayton Eshleman"If life is the teacher then there are a lot of bad students."--Mariana Caplan"Grief is love too.'--Tim Farrington Thanks for asking: I think apoetics of grief is correct. Becausegrief knows no…
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I dreamed my ship came in yesterday. Sorry but I've already been booked. I'm not about to leave you the map. You'll find your own way someday. Still if…
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Hope wakes starving/
in the storm,/
to off and hunt.
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2nd revised versionSometimes I forget how strange theworld is. I'm not so worriedabout following their rules. I'm muchmore interested in being real. I'venever believed in their definitions ofbeauty. Yet I've alreadyseen many miraculous things on justabout every…
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A Novel (First edition) A single slice of leftover yellow birthday cake has taken quietly to the air like the most natural creature alive but only because a small white saucer pushes it along. This still…
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I have a memory of rooms I never leave but have invisible walls. These are rooms I never leave, these are rooms where I exist but don't live. These are rooms where it is dark but I know they can see everything. They can even see inside of me—even my heart beating…
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waking mid-motion derailed mis-seeing twisted tree trunks for drunken suited men with washcloth faces wiping off the wasted nightscape of midnight misplaced before a caked men's room mirror wipe saliva thickened glass last night's travels grime not to see…
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