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Here I am, holding
this vellum
next to you, my darling.
You, like
this parchment,
are thin and aesthetic and
Important.
I am ri..
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I knew cruelty
but I knew nothing of
the world
until I saw
a snake
shake with fear.
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You have an ugly face
and sigh in ALL the wrong places.
Why can't I leave you alone?
Something about your ugly smile and something
about your br..
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When the towers fell
I counted american flags
on jeep liberties
and chevy trailblazers
for almost a year
today driving
on the pa..
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My mother was no beauty—
long, thin face
straight brown hair and
mud-brown eyes.
Her charming,
blonde,
voluptuous daughter..
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I can’t wait
until the Rapture—
when America will return
to wild God’s country
Princeton will be choked
with sa..
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What a fresh-faced picture I must have made, leaning against her, face upturned like a goddamn flower.
“Say it again” I s..
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What did I learn
on summer vacation?
That cold baked beans
which should have been hot
merit
a punch to the jaw
in a public place..
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Night—
long past when the
jazz piano’s been locked
safely in the billiard room;
tall, long shapes
throw firewood on t..
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I do not want
to buy that dress
because
it isn’t
cellar door.
I am not, either,
cellar door,
but in a dress
I am
much l..
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