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Pretty Boy
Pretty Boy                London, 1795 Can’t say he walked the walk. Talked it, but everybody did that, everybody had a story to front, the essential mess of their life. He was pretty, though. Nobody messed with the sight of him because it messed with …
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Territory
… Territory All day I’ve followed roads. Have I come that far? Terre Haute, Greencastle. Kokomo’s not close, …
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The Year of Not Believing
… not even in the worst of it, I get hung up on. She died so suddenly all I can picture is the oxygen mask …
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Wandering Cataphasis that Begins Outside <br />My New Jersey Window
… Window Ex hiis clarissime constat maximum  absolute incomprehensibiliter  intelligibile pariter et … chamber the trees trace in              winter of the woman come from the tropics now              licking the marvel of … doxology the slope and solemnity of lemons soft yellow petals on a secondhand dress the yes to slow dance the parting …
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Time/bomb
… stay in the right.  We meet at the stop sign where the two points intersect. In the timeline of the atom bomb, … An early review of Whistler’s Nocturne series also describes it as wallpaper, suggesting there’s no … measure time is to play until you hear the coyotes and then come home, which is mostly, also, what lovers do.   …
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To wear a vigorous shirt. At See-See Coffee
… tank   says, It only takes one or two  seconds to become   helpless in flowing grain , or among flowering … ice.               I love her for pretending to die    a lie of such richness   and for being able to die, both of us              any moment, so that when I …
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