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The Scoop
Ice cream is the only food that comes with rules. You be good, you get ice cream. You be bad, you no get ice cream. Ice cream is the only food that serves…
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Restless Driving
This morning started ok, but, when I headed towards the interstate things got all kinds’a fucked up. I spent 20 minutes playing chicken
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Send
Darling, you send me this color heart, two kissy faces, one smiley face, and three pink unicorns and how am I supposed
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The Vaquero and the Fire
Light goes out from it in concentric circles fading gradually chiaroscuro until it ends. A lot of people
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I Couldn’t Rest
I thought I couldn’t rest until I saw her sleeping for myself. Then I saw her sleeping and even that was no help. I’m exhausted, but
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If You’re Curly-Headed
Well, my grandma said one day they’d kill me for ‘em. All the girls and the ladies at the beauty-parlor payin’ for a permanent wave. Blonde, brunette, or gray
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The Great Buzzalina
She will’a dazzle you with her umbrella on’a the high-wire. She’a make’a the pizza pie taste’a better, like come’a from the pizzeria.
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silence of the lawns–
silence of the lawns-- I'm about to take that leaf blower and stick it up your ass --July 19, 2019
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Pastoral Insomnia (previously titled: Broken Lullaby)
Where on Earth is my little sheep-counter now? I haven’t slept in countless hours. She said, “Now, one, two baby, for you, and
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Draw Bridge
anymore, and most people hate them anyway. Not me though, boy. I seek-‘em out. I’ve got maps, charts full.
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Pea Farm Girl
Saw an angel in an orange vest on the shoulder of the road her diamond eyes they sparkled and her raven hair it flowed I went on up to tell her though I…
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Japanese Storms
If something were really written on the wind, how best to interpret it? Read the swaying of the swaying trees. --July 5, 2019
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Seascape
We’ll get your silhouette with a black brush framed against the moon How we’ll get the moon I don’t know. We’ll get your silhouette --July 4, 2019
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Ducking Francine
Some dinner plates broke the sun awoke a waitress in a flowered apron walked into the scene She was spoken for I held the door,
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The Stuffing
Something knocked the stuffing outta me. But, I gathered up what I could and stuffed my heart back full. The little was left I stuffed in my head.