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JESUS
SAVES.So says the sign.
I
wonder. Is it the sign
or
the sign putter-upper
who
has such intimate
knowledge..
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I
bought a fake Rolex
in
New York City
the
night of December 31st.
I
wasn’t even drunk.
I
was cold. Manhatta..
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Not
black!
The
pair stands alone,
naked,
without power,
two
words
uttered
by a professional
liar,
neck deep..
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C’mon.
Get real. The saints
don’t
march, neither coming in
nor
going out.
I
doubt the anointed of Go..
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One
dark night I lay down
on
the tracks, twisted wires
around my ankles, connected
wire to
steel, steeled myself
f..
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I
wasn’t born with the skill set
needed
to climb the Matterhorn,
or
with the flow of cash requested
by
the..
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Little
things
make
a morning:
coffee,
or hot
tea,
scrambled eggs,
a
bagel-
but
the paper isn’t
de..
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Midnight
is the cruelest hour,
being
the hour of an elder’s death,
while
a future lies still and silent,
bordering
on ..
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Don’t
look down when down is
in
the dumps, when you’re feeling
like
the rump of the world,
a
ham or slice..
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My
teacher, Mrs. Barron, was aptly named - old enough
even
then to have been a baron’s bride, the ceremony
like..
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