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it's a memoir that is simultaneously erotic and about death. But there's a twist!
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Blaring ACDC
in a red Buick
with the windows down
is a fine thing
Listening to ACDC
in a grey Mitsubishi
is not
easy
to
pull ..
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My father loved horses. Our first Christmas in America, after the evening mass, I fell asleep in the car between my sisters. I wo..
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Face like a flower
I gave you—
without knowing—
not much of me
The pain, perhaps,
of calloused hand
splitting me wid..
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These are the songs that slaves sing---
F**k you
You can't
Break me
Just try
Try me
The lion sleeps tonight
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You smile and
your jaw does something to my spine
and I'm alive
and miserable.
And late, late, late
you tell me small, sad things
and I know ..
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it's mothers--
are uncharted territory for girls
our fathers we know
our fathers are strong, our fathers are good
our fathers are gone.
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My city is perfect because it is not
a city in Michigan.
I pissed on the baseball diamond, and stretched my naked back on the tin r..
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These long nights
in well-lighted places
where certainty of dawn
is nothing but rumor
are all that is left
of grace.
There's a bitter herb
who..
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Fear not, my
frightened kitten
your love is
the white cord
that ties me to
this awful machine,
earth,
but not the chain which g..
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