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A Sound RequestFriend, there are certain sounds I love at night, | like the ongoing opera of the crickets, | the ...
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Before DawnThe pussycat | Remembers the jungle | Her incisors | Biting deeply through | The fur | Into the warm ...
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Dust On The Flydust in the joints from the galaxies, | dust on the sill, the desk around | the lamp and the glass of ...
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Harold’s Purple CrayonI live in a postmarked envelope, |      in a pair of socks, |      in a bull and matador ...
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Heavy Barrel HolinessSometime around 1970, | Todd Moore sighted in on | the linguistic hostage takers | high threat reading ...
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If You Wanti’ll bite if you want | i’ll spank if you want. | i’ll whisper in your ear if you want. | i’ll ...
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It Had To Be The AccentI don’t believe you | or your cats | or your hush-hush Southern upbringing. | | you just turned 30 | ...
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Loneliness Of The Long Distance DrinkerAfter last call, lights down, | the loneliness of the solitary | drinker, nothing moving but | the ...
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Loving YouIs not as liberating as travelling thirteen whimsical days | From Brindisi to Milan with nothing but ...
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Picasso's HandsLast night I dreamt | I was Picasso | summer of ‘21 | and you were a model | for Three Women | at the ...
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RegulationsPlato hates me: all cold | toes and symbolism. | Banished, my next meal | comes from a can, cold ...
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Screaming MimeI should speak out when they abuse | This pasty-faced artist who decided to choose | Being trapped ...
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The Case For Ping-Pong TablesI hear respectable people use the word “apocalypse” | and I see other respectable people cringe ...
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The Current Political Situation Of The RomaThere is progress, yes. | There are scholars and lobbyists, | journalists, philanthropists and ...
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The Day Scott Wannberg DiedThe Orthodox calendar on top of my refrigerator | tells me today is the feast of the ...
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The Divination Of SoilI find life on the undersides of stones, | | in the damp perforations of dirt | where beetles dig and ...
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The Endingit didn’t seem to matter | as night fell harshly | none of us were there | to witness | the event | | ...
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The Sayings Of The Evil Buddhaonly if you drink the ocean | will your thirst be truly ended, | | only if you become a hunter | will ...
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UntitledSpruce | Bringsteen my dopamine receptors to acceptable levels | Pleaseeee | Assimilate fever and ...
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A Mutual InterestMY LITTLE FLAT SMELLS OF FERTILISER whether I open the windows or not. It filters in through the ...
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Halloween and Neo Paganism at the LibraryJACKSON IS RESEARCHING PLYWOOD AT HIS LIBRARY drone desk for mild diversion, an obsession with ...
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Old Weather VaneLAST TUESDAY, MY DAUGHTER AND HER BOYFRIEND invited me to dinner at the boyfriend’s parent’s ...
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Real BeastsI WOKE UP WITH A PISS-BONER and kind of enjoyed the pressure. I slept another two hours before ...
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Stories That Defy Literary ConventionsThe Summation | | “YOU'RE PROBABLY ALL WONDERING WHY I called you into the parlor. But the ...
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That Obituary SummerI’D GO IN AT 4:00, climbing stairs past a landing where linotypes clattered behind frosted glass. ...
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Dispatches from Atlantis #11July 2001 | | I’m walking home down California Street, combing the outer Avenues of the ...
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Untitled MeaningDO YOU EVER SAY SOMETHING AWFUL AND INSTANTANEOUSLY REGRET THE WORDS; WATCHING THEM FALL FROM YOUR ...
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