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4:01 AMBehind the window and through the blinds lies a man, who / stands and perches, naught but a silhouette outlined by the / brown, nicotine-stained glow of the sheets-called-curtains.
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Jul 4, 2010
Bad Habits****** again, / Post-hasted doubting and raving, / Confused why I torture myself so –
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Jul 4, 2010
Bicycle ******Boredom churns broad-in-brain / competing with petty volumes of alcohol / (white Russian, 1, Magic Hat #9, 1)
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Oct 3, 2010
Business as UsualUnbidden / the sun boils angrily / through ruptured cloudcover.
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Jul 4, 2010
Cheap Decorations (Haiku)Cheap Decorations / Falling from above, / splattering on the sidewalk,
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Jul 4, 2010
Christmas SnakeoilWater white like ghosts falls / into glass. Upended, / sickly-thick liquid encircles –
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Jul 4, 2010
Circle of Ash (Elegy)A circle of ash cascades down the column of cold air next to the stone-plaster ashtray, / each dead and grey particle entwining and encircling the other, forming and outfalling from double-helix sequences that nobody notices, / providing half-seen distractions for the one standing idly smoking a Camel – a Turkish Royal –, and he’s looking like he’s working something out:
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Jul 4, 2010
Dead Dog SeriesI - Held / I held the girl / as she held her dog
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Jul 4, 2010
Dogs (Haiku)Dogs / Today, my dog died / mostly because I shot him
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Jul 4, 2010
Failing in LoveShe's got that peasant stink stuck to her / radiating failed dreams and passed-over advice / speaking to the untold quantities
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Jul 4, 2010
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