XII
There is a kind and like-minded thing that lies beside you while you sleep.

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XI
How many times does a woman laughIn a day?
The survey I readSaid twenty.
How do they know
Where one laugh ends,The next begins?
Can the animals be taught to laugh?
Can machines be?
Or what …

X

I was so afraid -yes, more afraidthan I have everever ever ever everever ever ever everever ever ever everever ever beenbefore, ever.
Or am I being melodramatic again?

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IX
Van Helsing unfastened the coffin lid,peeled the crucifix from the bone-white brow.He pulled the garlic from the rust-flecked mouth,careful not to touch the teeth.He stitched back on the severed head,and …

VIII
She looked at the floor and wall and was uncomfortable,and I did not smile.I did not say her name.
She told me her family secret,and I made a joke of it,and …

VII

“Look, we’re moving to Europe. To London, actually. That’s where my wife’s from. I hear it’s great over there. People keep telling me I’ll love it. I think it’s really …

VI
 
Dandelion, understanding,
stands and stretches
into the hot air
and cheerfully, happily,
is annhiliated,
asundered,
drawn to Heaven. 
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V

I have killed.I’m sure to do it again.I was breast-fed till I was 18.It’s my mother’s fault.I replay vividly my grandmother’s death.Each morning. It rouses me.In my quiet room, I …

IV
I note a lump inside me, in my body – in the thorax, in fact – in my chest – just shy of …

III
Daedalus – with only one wing done -fled before a mobdetermined to string him upand piñata the hell out of the man.Running for his life,he donned the single wing and,triple-jumping …