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Mixology | |
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[the cocktail hour finally arrives: whether ending a day at the office] | |
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[this is what you love: more people. you remember] | |
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[he would care for me as a stranger: courtesy clerk. so quick] | |
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[writing for a young man on the redline train: "to his boy mistress"] | |
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[in the elegant days of downtown: we sunned on the porch] | |
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[gardenhose dilated with rain: a puff adder] | |
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[winter moon summer moon budding moon barley moon] | |
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[a happiest harbinger to you: here spring] | |
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[chapt. ex ex ex eye vee: in which scott has a birthday] | |
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[dogs and boys can treat you like trash. and dogs do love trash] | |
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[12-line poem, seemingly out of place] | |
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[the mind of moss: sitting here by the reflecting pool] | |
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[when you touch down upon this earth. little reindeers] | |
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[this little treatment has side effects: side effects] | |
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[hope you like this new doctor: rachel says in hopeful tones] | |
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[my lover my phlebotomist. his elastic fingers encircle my arm] | |
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Filmography | |
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[robe and pajamas, steadfast and softer than anyone who touched me] | |
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[a mule-drawn scraper packed this earth: levees] | |
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[19 lines] | |
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[I was a priapic boy: the prow of a galleon] | |
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[a boy at 15 can't be too tough: approximate masculinity] | |
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[every man needs a buddy. who'll do] | |
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[college roommate gone: his hamper full. I'll do us both a favor] | |
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[the man in the front row: uniformed. ugly as my father the disillusioned] | |
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[morning broke on my cabin inverted. tempest in my forehead] | |
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[fortune drives a finned convertible: her blond wig shifts in the wind] | |
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[you'd want to go to the reunion: see] | |
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[so the theatre dimmed and reclined. cramped balcony rubbed against my leg] | |
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[the atrium of the heart beckons with pendulous lips] | |
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Bibliography | |
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[my lot to spin the purple: that the tabernacle should be made] | |
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[unsheathed the sword and cut the veil. visible the planet red] | |
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[he tastes the air with his tongue. his eyes a gory kitling] | |
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[my riches I have squandered. spread with honey] | |
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[strange flower in my hands. porphyry shell. clipped wool] | |
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[they hear the clapping of the bell and are afraid] | |
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[torch to the stubble of the fields: the harvest has ended] | |
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[slightly foetid. foetal and stooped. an afterbirth of rags] | |
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[the heavenly noise of domesticity murmurs in the kitchen: clink] | |
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[not a waking mutter. the locusts in cessation] | |
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[because I were ready before destruction. bearing the sign of his affliction] | |
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[listen mother, he punched the air: I am not your son dying] | |
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[the ice hadn't cracked. stingy ground: frozen with its hoard of bulbs] | |
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[A characters not reproducible] | |
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[came a voice in my gullet: rise up and feast. thunderous] | |
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[when he comes he is neither sun nor shade: a china doll] | |
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[coda & discography] | |