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    The Tracks

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    I had my hands on your ass for blocks until we crossed the tracks and got back to your place. We walked the same route

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    You floating through the air

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    You floating through the air like e e cummings’typesetter --November 5, 2018

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    okay corral–

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    okay corral-- the sound of cattle rustling in the distance --November 5, 2018

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    across the table–

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    across the table-- would you be an absolute angel --November 5, 2018

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    Blue Diners

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    Someone on TV said, “blue diners” and I thought of blue diners and I thought of blue diners

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    Razor

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    He went and got a good razor to kill me with. Sharp, the handle fit his hand. --October 29, 2018

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    Age of Sail

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    The floor of the ocean is covered in lengths of rope with knots in the middle no one could untie. --October 27, 2018

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    Morgan Street S.

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    We don’t need the story of how the window got broken as long as we got more cardboard. --October 25, 2018

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    I’d Rather Hear My Story Waltz

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    I’d rather hear my story as my sister tells it when she tells it to the people to the people gathered there. --October 23, 2018

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    For Halloween

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    For Halloween she went as the color blue. Not a fall color, nota fall color at all. --October 23, 2018

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    Lost To

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    And I’m lost to Indiana. Lost to the plains however far they stretch. I’m lost to the country. --October 20, 2018

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    Luddite

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    Nothing good ever happens when people time-travel. Bring on wrinkles. Bring on death. --September 21, 2018

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    Mariposa

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    Do you think it would be considered old-fashioned, or a fetish,

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    A Girl Named Daytona

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    Ok, so, fuck all y’all one night I’m gonna meet a girl named Daytona. And that’s

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    tip-toeing–

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    tip-toeing-- it’s not the minefield you’re used to --September 25, 2018

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    Morgan Street S.

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    That girl, she hadn’t graduated from the school’a hard knocks, yet, but I’ll tell you what she’s enrolled in the right place. --September 24, 2018

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    You Little Thief

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    St. Helena couldn’t hold me Leavenworth couldn’t hold me Tower of London couldn’t hold me Folsom Prison couldn’t hold me

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    Polynesia

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    I’ve got Polynesia and they say there’s nothing they can do about it. Medically defined, Polynesia is: the chronic inability

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    Stay Away

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    So, there’s only one thing you should stay away from in a poem and that’s the right-margin. --September 14, 2018

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    The Superintendent

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    Jesus, I’m just asking you to come down here to the 35th Floor like you said you would, and take a look

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