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ECON 101I hear they hoard Picasso’s like diamonds. / Excess is common— / escargot at a diner, Parisian no more,

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Feb 17, 2017

LITTLE RED“Was it the backless back of a black dress that did it?” / They’ll ask, loudly / even though the wolves that roam these streets

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Feb 12, 2017

THE DOG IN THE ROOMThe owner bites the dog, I bit myself / I think / I ate my leash

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Feb 12, 2017

24Ex nihilo: you, refusing to apologize / I wonder / if the world that your eyes violate and consume

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Oct 12, 2016

Esse est percipiAnd I felt the universe explode behind my eyes. / The language and thoughts / and sensations that accompany such—

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Sep 21, 2016

Saturday At the CemeteryIt was raining and it was morning. / They sat in the car underneath a tree, upon a hill, overlooking the vast cemetery below. Clichès still have the potential to be beautiful, they know. Intellectual awareness allows for understood symbolism, the death of that which dies at a cemetery, the emotional downpour demarcated by rain, the interstitial distance of looking forward and down. / Silence and language working symbiotically as a stratagem to both hide and reveal vulnerability. The clichè of their location works with the conversation.

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Apr 12, 2016

Why was Pavlov so well groomed?1) It puts the peanut butter on its ***** / 2) Finna meat sum ******* / 3) Classical conditioner

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Feb 1, 2016

The Teenagers of the BayouThe teenagers of the bayou look down to their pocket God, summoning validation through divine vibrations; / heads bowed they pray for the prey, for the sensations of meaning, refreshed each second, / filed and cast aside,

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Sep 12, 2015

AnotherAnother cigarette in bed, / another sleepless night. / The cats have prowled,

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Sep 23, 2014

In This TownNo breeze stirs / so the heat endures / in this town

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Aug 24, 2014

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