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So many one-player games to amuse us,
So many arm's-length social apps,
Tee-vee dinners and serial programs,
Movies on disks and vids on demand.
I..
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It's especially hard
To feel excited
About Friday night out
When you sit alone
At one's two-drink minimum
Funeral parlor.
The grain's been reape..
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The boy in the basement
Is no longer a man.
Haven't seen him in ages,
A whole triple-year span,
But I hear he's regressed
Back to embryo-hood,
P..
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To prepare:
Chew on some blue, grapefruit-flavored bonbons,
Sour motes that adhere to the nooks of your molars.
Rinse out the doll baby bottle and ..
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To ask to be loved
Is a colossal demand.
(Perhaps too great to ask at all!)
This is not the palsied sort of love
Bracketed in ironic quotation mar..
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In the fullness of time
I will stabilize,
I will find my proper orbit
Among the gassy giants.
Once in place and with a sense of purpose,
I will s..
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Everyone is a liar,
No one is sincere.
The selfish self is all that matters.
The achievements of the past
Amount to nothing.
Industry and honesty..
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As I read Anaïs Nin,
I think of all the things denied me.
Oh sure, I'm grateful for what I have--
Good health and financial stability--
But b..
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I am the pachinko ball
That fell too fast,
That landed too far
In the billiard blast.
I am the pellet
That does not score points
In the ping and..
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Many evenings as I approach the abyss,
The well of sleep,
My body is racked with painful spasms,
As if I'm nearing the event horizon
That fringes ..
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