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In the back garden the brambles are thick and wild, an old rusted lawnmower sits beside a small table with a half-empty bottle of Club Orange. I can see the pulp in the bottom of the bottle and wonder if it was Uncle Harry’s last drink.

Its edges fluttering in the dull breeze, today's town newspaper lay at my old feet, open to the obituary page.

The whale, in either the throes of suicide or leap of evolution, had beached itself somehow in a land-locked city.

“Man, that Fats just nothin’ but a powerhouse, nothin’ but ‘Jesus Rolled Away the Stone’ and them Cats his apostles.” La KeeSha replied, “Ya’ll a real Blues Daddy now.”

dishonest words of love poured / from her half-open cherry mouth /she clung to me / like she was my other nut / she licked the / salt from neck / held my shaved head / in between her small pink hands

We spun around and around in tatters and shreds, wearing time wearing it thin.

I am cultivating a willingness to devour anything. I will eat a chemistry lab. I will eat a perturbation if I can figure out how to cook a perturbation.

Somebody needs to call Frank. The pediatrician who fixes cars on the side.

Their hair--neon white in the sun—is cut Dutch boy-style over too small ears.

WANTED: a Muse. Former Special Forces solider turned poet seeking artistic inspiration. Brunettes preferred but blondes will not be turned away; gingers, however, are out of the question. Must have a voice that sounds like money, a self-destructive tem

Millennium jumped strumming lithium gum cumulative outnumber humiliated résumé jumpy instruments

“In diesem frame: Wir alle tanzen”

No CNN to sing obliteration,/ only Pliny the Younger/ to scratch what fell

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One was a guy named Rocco with a gooseneck trailer and truck. Another was known as just “Jimmy” By those who were down on their luck.

Then there was this short little girl, Jo Ann, who had a daughter and was divorced, who lived next door to my buddy Andy. She told me right after we did it one night that she had always wanted to have sex with me when she was growing up, as a teenager, I