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The Globe is Cracking 2008.
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There is a 3% chance I'll find you here. But if in each pair of eyes I dip, I find 1/8 of you; I
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I don't write love poems.
We didn’t bloom together the way we should have. We never eyed each other across neat soil; both sel
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Ophelia, Rewritten
They said I drowned,
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but the truth is softer:
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I laid myself down like an offering.
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I spit rive
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Poet-Ex-Girlfriend Support Group
I picture them in a balmy hallway,
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far-corner huddled; quietly, urgently
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comparing their notes o
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Two Peas in a Pod, Two Gifts From God
He was born defeated.
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For eight months he sat at the delta to the world,
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stargazing in amniotic
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The Year of the Snake
In Đà Nẵng my friends cradled me like a child.
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We screamed Taylor bridges,
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tequila-toasted in ba
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Gypsy, Seventeen, Deeply Unhappy
It was the summer my
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feet tanned like a gladiator,
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my coliseum was more a
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city piled on dirt,
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3am, Here, again.
I try to live Here. Here is humid-sticky-underground-dance-hall hot. I’m caught tight in a mess of l
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you won't visit on Sundays.
I found it while unpacking boxes of old books in the basement.
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It slipped out of a Spanish to Engl
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swim until you can’t see land
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until names etched deep in cardiac tissue blur
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and fade, scored ov
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