Just a Faint Line

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Tony The Lip

was older than he looked, was impressed by the smell of his own farts, lied about everything, never held a job for long, ate everything, drank anything, and changed his shorts no more than once a week. Tony had 3 bad marriages, 4 shack-ups, and that one month he never cared to talk about. i liked Tony.
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Poem read by by Soodabeh Saeidnia in the Farsi translation she created: https://soundcloud.com/soodabeh-saeidnia/a-messiah-morning This is one of four Silent Lotus poems included in the bilingual anthology Persian Sugar in English Tea, Volume II, published in March 2018.
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My mind is a musty record crate. Schlepped around. Only exposed to monthly swap meets, and nostalgic nights. Brush decades of debris from my mental music (re)collection, hoping to add freshly-dug earworms to proven, fossilized melodies. Casting moldy bait in binary streams, I hook the next big...
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The day was so tender it almost broke (us) in two the buds on the trees lime-toned and ready to uncoil the doves not yet married, nestless A squirrel carried one of last year’s nuts around in his mouth, forgetting there would be new ones (We) wondered out...
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The sex falls in flecks and sputters as the limousine windows slide down ...
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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. There will be a wide margin for relaxation to his...
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Glitch

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TIMOTHY

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Collision time

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One day on the back porch many years ago, catching some rays, sunning, as it were, after the wife had been fired for crimes against nature, self and child and the dream and the life and the job and the house and everything once loving to...
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Don’t ask me

for poetry, I can't give you poetry—I'm not one of those poets writing for four hour periods each morning with french-pressed coffee I can't give you words that will always make sense and fall into each other with perfect commas and strategy I spit these out like juicyfruit— and they always lose...
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I disappeared

into you and it felt like the womb I had left 5 days early. I crawled under you like winter cats in car tires I dropped my steel and stayed in your waters, risking air but I had your air I didn't need to hear words with your ears, but...
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The flame’s reflection on the television was so crisp like it was real and soon the stereo was on fire. Then the couch would light up and the smell would at least be pleasant, with strawberry and skunk meandering....
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What about us

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DOOR MAT

I can still remember how annoyed he got the first time I used it, “Door mat,” the way his mother let a brute of a man walk all over her. “Door mat”—you’d think I’d called his mother whore or bitch. Not strange, I went on, so many...
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F A M K E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NvHJSpI5Zs
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After

Steve Richmond was a mainstay of the American little magazine scene of the 70s and 80s. He gained notoriety not only for his extensive series of "gagaku" poems but also for his longtime association with poet Charles Bukowski. As...
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You can bitch about quality all you want & make your anal compulsive lists the best school the best fuck the best career the best italian sausage & then 30 years removed or maybe 40 you realize no one gives a fuck & neither do you so you sit down with a drink & a small stack...
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I need more

https://soundcloud.com/user-151672534/i-need-more-2018-edition
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Andrea

Oil Pastels, Colored Pencils, Graphite, Lithography Pencils, Bleed Proof White, Digital Paints on Photograph.  © 2011 Thomas Yarbrough
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The Bird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzwgB7EEZbU The bird circles endlessly in my room, in the half-light— comes close, carries the harsh carnival of his eye to mine, causing my neck to fall down in slices of yellow, my shoulder to reveal the five sleeping armies. The bird lands upon...
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Lo-Fi

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Hangman

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OMAHA

When fathers stopped wearing fedoras at ballgames unity and chaos wrestled in the mud.                               • When fathers stopped telling the old jokes quills grew on the tongues of their children.                               • When fathers stopped strangling ice picks cars sank in a traveling darkness.                               • When fathers stopped building...
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Jimmy

Just got off the phone with my Uncle Jim 2 years, 11 months, and 14 days in FCI Memphis behind him. He’s the one who taught me how to play drums. Spent thousands of rounds failing to get me interested in guns. Took me seriously as a teenager, listened patiently expecting I...
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Ku Mi Ko

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Moving Day

Lena, across the street on her porch step clutching her robe closed against the afternoon sun. ashtrays neat stacked full of half smoked Kents. in her bedroom a real live slot machine sprayed nickles when you never won. Lena’s buoyancy declined absent my mom floating her tab at the China...
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Have Made It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnoTelwXuww
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MA RI A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=78&v=3AIzoMJURAE
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I don't wanna pay April's rent I just got an email (and they never send them) that said Hey, don't forget to pay April's rent. I was going to pay the rent like I always do but now since they sent me that I...
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Field Poppies

1. 2. Watercolour on L'Aquarelle Canson Heritage Block 300gsm cold pressed. Watercolour paper - 51cm x 34cm.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZd4Ats7DRI
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Visual Kei

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You Never Asked

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