boys chase around the aisles with sacks of weighed apples. avocados on sale. mom pauses, picking the purple textured skins. hopeful. but what would we trade out for it? almond milk? Diana Ross sings over the din of bar code scanning. she lifts her head and closes her eyes
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Vegas. 5am. i take the elevator 20 floors down to the lobby. slot machines. whoever on the last dime. an old man smoking a cigar. a young woman with a pained expression. a dog under her arm. pulling for 7 bars on 5 lines. the dog licks foam off the lid of her coffee.
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denying you did something you did when one witness to it describes how deeply it affected them hurt them is fucked up and as hurtful if not greater than the original offense
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plotting
we pressed the paper map into the table
compelled to the north through the mountains
i gave in easy because i love you
south. through the desert
my imagination can fill in
any vast expanse of
nothing
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she padded around
in leopard print slippers
giving the plants glasses of water
outside
raccoons huddled up
after dodging cars and found
a broken window to climb into her garage
they were stronger and bolder
the iphones
made the humans
oblivious
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you stole my heart
but i am stubborn and do not stand for thieves
signaled by the wren’s song
with a final kiss i took my love
and left you
waking up 500 miles away
all my belongings in my car
drinking coffee
falling for a sunrise
wrapping my arms around
change
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out in the Mojave and halfway to Barstow
i was feeling mighty lonely
flirtin with the speed limit when
Loretta Lynn started singin
her heart out
i stopped for some coffee
gave my phone to a pack of coyotes
then rolled my happy ass east
carefree as a tumbleweed
headway into the sun
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a fight over nothing
in the car in the drive through
moody. half starved
a woman lying in the road
overcome by emotions
a man rushed to the hospital
time stops or slows and speeds up again
false alarm
someone took a pill
to ease a worried heart
in the rain
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i was running through a city park
dead grasses bordered an ominous sky
a man lay unconscious on the riverbank
where he had been fishing
desperation in a friend’s blue eyes
asking could i help?
the sun setting
no hesitation
gotta be there for
my brothers
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when
her lips parted to speak
radio waves flooded the room and
soaked the floral kitchen
wallpapers
the brief winter daylight
lengthened several hours around
her persuasion
we all fell asleep
effortlessly
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