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“ I'll never be your Maggie May / the one you loved and left behind / the face you see in light of... ”
“ If you were in my movie / I'd have you as the doctor / Small black bag / And a big black... ”
“ Angel comes home / His clothes in a cloud / Of the dust and the dirt and destruction / She waits... ”
“ Fall and all attendant memories / Crowd the day with unrelated... ”
“ As a child / You have a doll / You see this doll / Sitting in her chair / You watch her... ”
“ You make a really good girl / As girls go / Still kind of look like a... ”
“ I will take up all your tears / Salty tissues through the years / Spread them in the sun to... ”
“ Mother the doctor knows something is wrong / Cause my body has strange... ”
“ He said you stand in your own shoes / I said I'd rather stand in someone... ”
“ one thing I know / this pain will go / step through all that's left to... ”
“ I'd like to help you doctor / Yes I really really would / But the din in my... ”
“ When blood sees blood / Of its own / It sings to see itself... ”
“ In my book of dreams [X3] / I took your urgent whisper / Stole the arc of a white... ”
“ The way of the world / Has taken its toll / Ravaged my body / And bitten my soul / I am ruined by... ”
“ My name is Calypso / And I have lived alone / I live on an island / And I waken to the... ”
“ It won't do / to dream of caramel, / to think of cinnamon / and long for you. / It won't... ”
“ I only turned to see / What hand had set this inner field alight / Against the flame I... ”
“ It's a one time thing / It just happens / A lot / Walk with me / And we will see / What we have got /... ”
“ Edith wharton's lovely figurines / Still speak to me today / From their mantlepiece in... ”
“ I stand in a wide flat land / No shadow or shade of a doubt / Whore the megaphone... ”
“ 50-50 chance / The doctor said / In the cardiac room / As she's lying in bed / There's a pan on the... ”
“ On the way to the bidet / Is when the trouble used to start / It didn't mean she wasn't... ”
“ We go to the playground / In the wintertime / The sun is fading fast / Upon the slides into the... ”
“ You come from far away / With pictures in your eyes / Of coffeeshops and morning... ”
“ i dreamed you were a rich man / and that i had no place to... ”
“ The sign said "Headshots" / And that was all, / A picture of a boy / And a number you could... ”
“ the ceiling had a painting on it / in our room in France / so we were living underneath... ”
“ If I were a weapon / you said I'd be a gun / lethal at close range i guess / with silencer and... ”
“ In Liverpool / On Sunday / No traffic / On the avenue / The light is pale and thin / Like you / No sound... ”
“ If you were to kill me now right here / I would still look you in the... ”
“ Institution green / The walls are cracked and dim / And we are standing in a... ”
“ In the ironbound section near Avenue L / where the Portuguese women come to see what you... ”
“ The virgin mary on a chain / has hit me in the mouth again / as we explore the carnal... ”
“ Watch while the queen / In one false move / Turns herself into a pawn / Sleepy and... ”
“ If language were liquid / It would be rushing in / Instead here we are / In a silence more... ”
“ Last year's troubles are so old fashioned / the robber on the highway the pirate on the... ”
“ if you want me, you can find me / left of the center off of the... ”
“ Lolita / Almost grown / Lolita / Go on home / Hey girl / Don't be a dog all your life / Don't beg for... ”
“ Love is the only thing that matters. / Love is the only thing that's... ”
“ My name is Luka / I live on the second floor / I live upstairs from... ”
“ Am I an afternoon's pastime? / a thing on a string / to be thrown and... ”
“ / Even if I am in love with you / All this to say, what's it to... ”
“ Men in a war / If they've lost a limb / Still feel that limb / As they did before / He lay on a... ”
“ My favorite plum / hangs so far from me / See how it sleeps / and hear how it calls to... ”
“ "We had our / Neighborhood girl, she / Used to hang out, in front of / McKinsey's Bar, and we... ”
“ New York City spread herself before you / With her bangles and her spangles and her... ”
“ By day give thanks / By night beware / Half the world in sweetness / The other in... ”
“ Ante up. And don't be shy. / Who is that man who is catching my... ”
“ Once I stood alone so proud / held myself above the crowd / now i am low on the... ”
“ This line is burning / Turning to ash as it hits the air / Every step is a day in the... ”
“ She's a pornographer's dream, he said. / I knew what he... ”
“ Let's tell the future / Let's see how it's been done. / By numbers. By mirrors. By... ”
“ She'd come to my house / and dance in the hall / with the music up loud / against the light on the... ”
“ Excuse me / If I may / Turn your attention / My way / One moment / I won't plead / It isn't... ”
“ Somewhere in a room / With a poster on a wall / Of a man with his hand / In a... ”
“ Now the time has come to speak / I was not able / And water through a rusted... ”
“ Today I am / A small blue thing / Like a marble / Or an eye / With my knees against my... ”
“ Soap and water / take the day from my hand / scrub the salt from my stinging... ”
“ Black on the red and the red on the black. / It's a tic of a tired... ”
“ Solitude stands by the window / She turns her head as I walk in the... ”
“ If I had met you on some journey / Where would we be now / If we had met some eastbound... ”
“ The reproach in your daughter's most beautiful face / made me wonder just how she could... ”
“ If sand waves were sound waves / What song would be in the air now / What stinging... ”
“ call on that saint / and the candle that burns / keeping her safe / until her return / plaster and... ”
“ I don't care for tights, she says / and does not tell me why / She hikes her skirt above her... ”
“ There's a sound / Across the alley / Of cold metal / Touching skin / And you can... ”
“ The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door / He said, "I am not fighting for you any... ”
“ He is not my friend, but he is with me / Like a shadow is with a foot that... ”
“ Those whole girls / Hurl down words / Run in packs / With bloom to spare / They know health / Know it... ”
“ Oh Mom, the dreams are not so bad / It's just that there's so much to do / And I'm tired of... ”
“ I am sitting / In the morning / At the diner / On the corner / I am waiting / At the counter / For the... ”
“ I like a tombstone cause it / weathers well / and if it stands or if it crumbles / only time will... ”
“ I knew a plant / Whose roots were bound / And returned / Into the ground / Every day / I watched it... ”
“ I believe right now if I could / I would swallow you whole / I would leave only bones and... ”
“ When heroes go down / They go down fast / So don't expect any time to / Equivocate the... ”
“ Consider me a widow, boys / and I will tell you why. / It's not the man, but it's the... ”
“ Too hot. No air. / Loud fan and a big tin can. / Wait here. Steer clear. / They've gone to get your... ”
“ I came out of the darkness / Holding one thing / A small white wooden horse / I'd been holding... ”
“ If your love were taken from me / Every color would be black and... ”
“ Zephyr & I stand out on / West End Avenue / Talking about the things that / All of us used to... ”