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Don't look now, God, we're all right. All the suicides are eating Black Bean Soup;...

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I swam but the tide came in like ten thousand orgasms. I swam but the waves were higher than horses' necks.

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My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

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I was the girl of the chain letter,...

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All considerations for these human remains! They must have an escort! They are classified!

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And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in their stone boats. They are more like stone

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Your apple face, the simple crèche Of your arms, the August smells...

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The others died, the luck of it blurting through them. I could not, I was a silly broken umbrella...

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I hear the death of me, the murderous weeds, the stallion breathing sulphur, the hara-kiri rape,...

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never again would she lose her ball, that moon, that Krishna hair, that blind poppy, that innocent globe, that madonna womb.

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At the next town the local princess was having a contest....

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Faces, suddenly suspended above you; faces that you think it's your business to love if only you could remember their names.

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you come, a brave ghost, to fix in my mind without praise or paradise to make me your inheritor.

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her young years bungle past their same marriage bed...

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O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.

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The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death.

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I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home...

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you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street...

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the cement wall of the clumsy calendar I live in, my life, and its hauled up notebooks.

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You make a toast for tomorrow and smash the cup, letting your false women lap the dish I had to fatten up.

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