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LSD and Two Thousand Miles Between Us
“and the water felt like crystals” you are saying, buzzing in my ear where the phone is wedged between shoulder and cheek and I am barely listening, lost in myself,
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Famous Last Words
1. Waiting are they? Let them wait. This is the last of the earth! Codeine. . .bourbon, I am Content. It’s just that I can’t sleep. Boats are knocking, boats against the past. I worry. Don’t let poor Nelly starve: I understand, my worn tongue reeling, why the earth is suffocating and why not beg,…
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Open Letter to Edward CJ
It’s not the perfect photo, this latest of you and me. The light is bad, grainy and too-dark, but the pub was small and mirrored and just what I’d imagined when I’d imagined England. We smile just the same as before, me open and tilting, and you quietly composed. Looking, no one would know six…
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Two Poems
The Fall To the first girl I ever kissed, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have, but the rum and Coke tasted so good on your tongue. I’m sorry, too, that my hands were not soft against your skinny calves, crossed at the ankle, folded like a paper fan. To the first girl I ever fucked, I’m…
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Psych Ward Memoirs
When I catch sight of my stitches in periphery, I think they are hairs growing out of my wrist, like black wiry hairs growing out of a mole or on the jaw lines of women. Then I think of Marie, whose name I thought was Murray at first because of the black hairs on her…
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The Trust for University Sponsored Centers
It’s hard to miss the flyers across campus proclaiming our need of a Center for Abstinence and Chastity. Hotly contested articles in the Prince and a weeklong lecture series on the subject, spearheaded by Robbie George, further increase the prominence of the debate. Proponents for the Center argue that the University must meet the needs…
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The Future of Narrative
I am at a lecture. A lot of the people here are old, but I am kind of young. I am eighteen, which is young but not young like people say I am. I have not been twelve for six years, and when I take off my clothes, don’t say I look so young. I…