Month: May 2019
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The Truth About Bubbles
For her work on bubbles Karen Uhlenbeckbecame the first woman to winthe Abel Prize in mathematics whichnow should be renamed…
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There Are Times of Silence
when my head whirs & clatters like a dusty fan.I can’t close the browser window in my brainlong enough to…
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Pumping Gas
A man walks from pump topump asking for . . . you knowwhat he’s asking for, and Idon’t want to…
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Get On Your Knees
In hell the beer isnever cold enough,the music is notloud enough, and akiss gives you herpes. What did you expect,the…
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Oil or Men
The first white girl I had sex withnever accused me of rape,though her father did. Why else would his daughterspread…
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Morning Drive, March 2019
In such a serpentine situationAs Interstate 410 before eight a.m.,Language is not quite precise—Aggro jazzOf chrysalis lives,Some in Chryslers Accelerating, Halting to…
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Elvis Resurrection
By the time they pack us up again, I’m ready to move. Five years boxed, standing up in an old…
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all the nameless saints
de chirico’s shadows, lateafternoon,end of winter with sunlight asweak as christgotta laugh when thefist finds the child’s throatgotta be some…
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Kid Brother Dropout
I wanted to be just like my older brother; tired of being known as just Sean’s kid brother, so I…