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The building often settled into the years with creaking reluctance, but the retreating breath of laughter could not be accounted for. Upon returning my attentions to the body, her eyes had opened, fixed upon me with the lonely thorns of life relived. A question hung between us, thin and oily.
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if the woman
.
If the woman is a stone
bury her in blue water,
If the woman is a knife
rub her til she's sharp.
His voice is a rattle at the bottom of a tin cup.
His arms are spurs, and rusted
where metal pinches leather.
He shakes like a drum in firelight
with the last fist still fresh on his back:
ama sa'ni, she grow curved low like a horseshoe,
&
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the cocooning of pangea
tell me about continents and oceans
and i'll tell you about highways
and planes.
continents -
fall apart
you say,
oceans -
destroy them
and i say:
but look,
that isn't an ending,
that's just
change.
pangea was
beautiful,
it didn't
need to change.
and i say:
we all need to change,
even beauty must adapt.
and i say:
i adapted,
pangea adapted,
why can't you?
all that distance,
you say,
all those miles.
there is an ocean
between us.
and i say:
highway
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an augury of tears
your love is the wind
on water. mine heaves deeper
than cruel riptide.
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Trufax - I was lying half-asleep on a doctor's table when this idea came to me. Or half-dead. One wonders.
Trufax - I was lying half-asleep on a doctor's table when this idea came to me. Or half-dead. One wonders.
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I used to test myself with these short and uber short stories.
A story has a beginning, a middle and an end, otherwise it's just prose.
A story has a beginning, a middle and an end, otherwise it's just prose.