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The Marionette
You’re the shadow on the floor who’s told to dance. The trot from an orange fox, willing to play the hunt. The hounds all bark at once. A...

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Language Lessons
You muttered under your breath I’m stupido, as though I’m too dumb to know what it means. While I grew up in Little Italy, you say I’m...

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2 days ago1 min read


The Auricle
Do not stoop and whisper your affections to my ear. Don’t stroke my bearded chin like I’m a cat, 3 ½ feet away, expect a murmur like a...

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2 days ago1 min read


Why I will never write another haiku
Basho’s frog was just a toad. Never had a wart in all the years. I mean Basho, not the toad. How can he write of life without the...

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3 days ago1 min read


Danger Noodle, or The Eyes of Eva Ross
Nothing is what it seems. You stared at the solar eclipse for twenty minutes, orbs of blue as naked as your birth, their flame like...

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3 days ago1 min read


why my history prof told me to get the fuck out of his class
I think he’s bigoted. Complains about the Muslims, the script of Arabic, its use of dots and sickles; unaware we’ve loved its digits...

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5 days ago1 min read


Holland, Michigan
Everyone here is racing yellow lights. No one likes to ponder life at reds. The fragility of tulips. The radio’s always playing the same...

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6 days ago1 min read


My Failure in Ekphrasis, or The Folly of Robert Frost, or Why I’m Banned from the Vatican
A poet cannot make a magnum opus. It’ll never achieve the stars. Two roads diverged in a wood ? No, trees won’t get it done, and a path’s...

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6 days ago1 min read


Les Empiristes
the only way out is in —Junot Díaz After lunch you’re pleading don’t sweep away the whits from the picnic table. Leave them for the...

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Oct 21 min read


Pastѐque, or The Glory of Nonchalant
As we sit upon a bench in Reynolds' Park, you say that I’m indifferent to your pain. Your neuropathy. Autistic bloody savant. Your...

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Oct 11 min read


Thoughts from a Double Driveway
Mr. Play It Safe, was afraid to fly —Alanis Morissette You click away Ironic, hear the morning gab on Radio Wire: Heroes come in varied...

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Oct 11 min read


On the Day of the Orange Shirt
—the 30 th of September They say nothing rhymes with orange. I find that rather strange. Maybe nothing rhymes with truth. Goes with...

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Sep 301 min read


Wings, or Overkill, or The Spirit of ‘76
It’s the proverbial sledgehammer/fly, a Captain Hook who’s gashed by his little itch, his cheek now lined by his lapse of memory. You...

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Sep 291 min read


The Incident, or The Proboscis
Incident is a funny duck of a word. It can mean a clean-up in aisle 7, the spill from a bag of salt. Your fear it will be re- taped,...

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Sep 291 min read


This hasn’t been written by AI
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans —Claude Shannon Dr. Chandra, will I dream? —2010: The Year We Make...

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Sep 281 min read


The Fall of the Nature Poet
and when her toddler lost his fingers in the shells, when the plumes arose like fungi— in the grass, mushrooms dotted about the...

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Sep 271 min read


Dinner in Farmingdale
Politicians love to say at the end of the day, like it’s some magical time of epiphany. Why is nothing quite as clear while having lunch?...

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Sep 251 min read


Clark Kent Talks Like a Douche
Superman never made any money Savin' the world from Solomon Grundy And sometimes I despair the world will never see another man like him...

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Sep 253 min read


Triage, or Cursing Samuel Beckett in July, or 96 Hours in Emerg
Your patience is a virtue is wearing thin, making me grind my molars 'til they’re smoothed like lakeshore stones: They’ve been carried by...

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Sep 231 min read


Over the Top
You like potayto, and I like potahto You like tomayto, and I like tomahto —Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off...

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Sep 221 min read
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