• Her self image was not the force field she imagined it to be
• she was just the dry smell of gasoline
• She was so pleased to learn that she was right
• She grew a little older, while he was telling her
• She probably thought your first language was English; your real first language was Joyce
• She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
• He was an ant on an ill-defined mission. She was the trapdoor spider of love.
• What the hell was she thinking?
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• She moved so easily all I could think of was sunlight
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• I was tired. It was late. She was Russian.
• A dose of mystery slipped into her cocktail while she was in the ladies' room
• She was so tall, and I was so in love
• She was inside the music, with her eyes closed
• little pieces of her tragically poetic attempts at being loved that she was startlingly aware of, today
• She was steady
• The emotion on her face was always the one that she was feeling in her heart
• Existentialism is that girlfriend who cheated on you. Postmodernism is who she was with.
• Outside the train station she was the only person wearing an Orange raincoat and a look of surprise
• She was coming out as he was going in.
• To a girl who thought she was moving away
• She was cilantro, jalapeņo, habanero. She was the hot plate you must not touch.
• The House on the Island Where She Was Born
• She was watching me and I didn't know it.
• The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
• She was too beautiful to be human
• For a lawyer she was surprisingly like a child. Sometimes.
• She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
• She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
• She was very beautiful. Y'know?
• In a quiet grove of pines under a frosty sky, he helped her out of the sack. She wore severe white hospital pajamas and was beautiful.
• She was never mine. I always shared her.
• it was just as if she held her breath for 82 years
• I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
• She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
• She was a Surrealist Woman, She was like a Figure in a Dream
• someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
• She was buttery. She was asking for it. She was delicious. Let's all give in.
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• She was locked in time
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
• Fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys
• piano outside in the snow. and she was spinning
• When she was bad
• And when she came back she was nobody's wife
• The Abridged Edition: She was to one side, he was to the other, an untested bridge between them
• She was free
• She was the seed of a strange tomorrow
• She is and was
• "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
• She was an intellectual prostitute, seducing me with profound truisms
• Because, perhaps she was cold
• She was like a candle in the wind: unreliable
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• She always was devious in her beauty
• He dreamt he was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty bed
• She was the cutest necromancer I ever did see
• she was waylaid by an octopus
• She dreamt she was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty field
• She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
• She was so quiet that nobody heard her
• She was thinking of a boy in California who had a couch and a job
• She was feminine in the most displaced sense I had ever seen, a known quality refracted through stained glass windows.
• Blink, and I will fade away like the mist on the beautiful morning of your birth
• Surah 60 She that is to be Examined
• How clear she shines
• She said yes
• She makes sniffing sounds, and I don't know if she's snorting coke or weeping
• I would have tried, but Charlotte kept Charlotte in the world of Charlotte and she barely heard me
• I don't tell her these things, and she doesn't ask
• She had eyes like the Blue Screen of Death
• Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
• She tasted like whiskey and blood and cemetery dirt.
• Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him
• She says kill. I say how many.
• She sat down in black pants and mules, and I pulled up a chair to listen to her reading Billy Collins
• She doesn't need you, she wants you.
• She has a heap of hearts on a platter and she's not getting mine
• Rambling incoherently while standing in a crowded mall
• Standing beside my grave
• Standing nervously on a white petroleum storage tank under the brazen March sky
• I was expecting it to hurt like a fuck
• When I was your age
• Was I nearly as anti-consumerism as I had initially thought?
• Oxygen was the world's first pollutant
• i wonder if that was meant to console
• How was the Bible canonized?
• The Bed Was Not My Own
• When I Was a Boy
• Walther WA 2000
• I Was Looking at the Ceiling And Then I Saw the Sky
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• I was a father for a few days
• When daddy was the handsome prince
• I was a nice guy once
• I was Dan for fifteen minutes and I never want to be Dan again
• The night your father was stabbed in the back room of a convenience store. No mercy.
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• Nu Wa
• Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
• I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• the country was so nice we bombed it twice
• As It Was Made, It Shall Remain
• it was true then
• It doesn't matter whether Hitler was an Atheist or a Christian
• If I Was To Go...
• all about me is the wind and the mist and the scent of the fields
• English As She Is Spoke: Familiar Dialogues, Part II
• And then, she expressed frustration with life in general
• She flies with her own wings
• She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits
• They did not forgive us, she thought. We will surely die.
• She runs
• while she sleeps, i write myself into her life
• cities full of ravens, silent concrete echoing back while she sings
• She's smarter than me but she's also more quiet, therefore she has no personality which makes me feel better
• She might not need me. But then again she might.
• standing barbell curl
• Like a dog standing on its hind legs, begging for attention.
• Why was Cthulhu blue?
• This was unexpected, my soul's connection to you
• I was aghast, yet intrigued
• There was a time when I was a better person
• The last girl I dated was a vegetarian. We couldn't go anywhere and so it just didn't work out.
• Tomorrow I was
• The Portland Oregon Everything Tea was actually a Suicide Cult Initiation!
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• Of Gods and Men: Who Was This Man Called the Christ?
• That Was The Year That Was
• Hitler was an artist
• Shimmer over bridges like the river was a dream
• If over the hills was someplace new and forgotten
• The skyline was beautiful on fire
• If the government wasn't involved in the Sept 11 attacks, what was it doing?
• You hit the nail on the head and the nail was directly above my heart
• I was a college Jeopardy! champion
• The sexuality and marital status of Jesus
• Making sure your ballot was counted in a United States Election
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• Kristine Dunn was therefore butterscotch
• And Pharoah's heart was hardened
• why the Cold War was a stupid idea
• For one thing, he was sure his granny would never have used smack.
• the signal was killed
• I knew it was over the moment I bought those shoes
• And though it was snowing outside, all within were warm.
• Sal Allahu Allahi Wa Salam
• The Mists of Avalon
• find (in the mist)
• That's all she wrote
• So then she said
• She told me I'd make a good Satan
• Would you like to penetrate her shell, insinuating yourself among the pages of the books she is reading?
• I come home, she lifted up her wings. I guess that this must be the place.
• Before she started smoking
• What, she cannot say
• alive she cried (user)
• She Will Have Her Way
• She draws with pencils, you draw with words
• Is it fair for him to love me when she craves his touch?
• When she died
• she , billowing apparation, inimitable white sheet
• "I'm sure your song is beautiful," she laughed
• I never told you she stole my heart
• Standing as a candidate at a UK election
• Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
• the seven hills of Rome
• If the King's English was good enough for Jesus
• Why I didn't get my driver's license until I was 18
• Why Socrates was really executed
• I wish I was carrying cigarettes
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• November 4, 1995

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