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POEMS
"No One Leaves Me Like You Do" and "The Lugubrious Game"

No One Loves Me Like You Do A soft and rotten moment of loving you hits the pavement like seasonal fruit gone overripe. Skipping to the part where you leave a cigarette burning in my ashtray, I take out eyes swollen by another’s prying that pass through the mouth and...

POEMS
"Foreign Language Film" and "Reality (Slight Return)"

Foreign Language Film I dream of two strangers having sex. There’s a song on in the background, it’s not in English, I don’t know what language it is. This was the night after the night I cried into my wine at a fried chicken restaurant. It’s never the person, it’s...

Poems

I Could Have Written That By John Tottenham Like you, I am tired of my own voice, these incessant I’s and me’s. But what’s the alternative? I don’t have the audacity to employ another he or she or We. Nothing could be worse, psycholinguistically, than that sententious...

POEMS "No One Leaves Me Like You Do" and "The Lugubrious Game"

POEMS "Foreign Language Film" and "Reality (Slight Return)"

Poems

POEMS
"No One Leaves Me Like You Do" and "The Lugubrious Game"

POEMS
"Foreign Language Film" and "Reality (Slight Return)"