Rufus Silas Wally Review

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2010-02-09T18:28:00.003-05:00

I said "I love you"

and thought "haven't meant that in years."

Neither one is true.

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2010-02-09T18:27:00.001-05:00

The truth has a gun.

He's taking bets on whether

it's loaded or not.

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2010-02-09T18:25:00.001-05:00

No teeth, just knuckles

hung from gums like mistletoe.

Imagine the kiss.

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2010-02-09T18:23:00.001-05:00

Get on the ground and

let the long arm of the law

repair your hymen.

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2010-02-09T18:08:00.002-05:00

Dragons storm the gates,

demand sacrifices, ask

for pay-phone quarters.

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2010-02-09T18:07:00.000-05:00

A criminal sleeps

in the vault, wanting money

to steal him away.

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2010-02-09T18:04:00.001-05:00

It doesn't hurt, but

what does? Your nerves and spine are

a funny dream's plot.

Execu-jerk

2010-01-06T09:53:00.006-05:00

Tactics for winning
available in dark months.
Collect them today.

Supplementary Challenge

2009-08-25T10:35:00.004-04:00

Your body will steal
silver metals from your bones.
You must win them back.

Arthritis

2009-05-08T11:32:00.002-04:00

Tom blew out his knees
after a lovely dinner.
Tom's knees are candles.

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2009-05-06T11:47:00.003-04:00

The path is empty.
Mercury is retrograde.
Something might happen.

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2009-05-05T20:25:00.001-04:00

Precise clarity
or clear precision? I still
struggles with these, too.

“Ma’am, we’re going to do this one more time, and then I’m going to treat you as though you were not here...”

2009-05-04T11:12:00.011-04:00

Dark forest of law;
nameless immigrants vanish,
standing still as trees.

Look at it go

2009-04-30T10:29:00.008-04:00

To aid Mexico,
Google expands flu mapping;
iris wilts in spring.

Non-performance-based

2009-04-29T10:33:00.012-04:00

Layoffs this morning.
Fall for the leafy shakes of
meritocracy.

Rite now

2009-04-28T10:30:00.007-04:00

Spring would understand
if I ran out / the nasal
passages of man

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2009-04-25T19:14:00.000-04:00

The improbable
falsely validates thinking
irrationally.

300 seasons

2009-04-06T13:58:00.011-04:00

Enormous apples
odd thoughts, tow trucks, ripe summer
squash you with haiku

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2009-04-05T20:05:00.000-04:00

Again and again
and again and again and
again and again.

Snack Dragon Taco

2009-04-03T17:43:00.002-04:00

When Spring stops being
a fickle bitch, we will be
open on Mondays.

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2009-04-03T10:28:00.005-04:00

How much do we know
of each other? Most females
have a clitoris.

Midtown east, lunchtime.

2009-04-01T13:27:00.002-04:00

People offended
by rain: rain drops offended
by reflective panes.

Bailout Agency

2009-04-01T10:26:00.003-04:00

Branded horoscopes
invite engagement engine,
wizardly finance.

What exactly are you saying?

2009-03-31T15:25:00.005-04:00

The words of neighbors:
change flung at facial features.
We have homeless ears.

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2009-03-31T15:23:00.001-04:00

Concerning the church
and technology / questions
a'rise on Sunday.

Finally

2009-03-31T02:19:00.004-04:00

It's not what's inside
anymore / than what's outside(?);
it's all between you.

Ghost writer

2009-03-30T14:22:00.002-04:00

Paper factories
exhaust more than winter steam;
they eat babies, too.

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2009-03-30T10:13:00.009-04:00

In his Fall garden
heads dangle from bulbs. How did
your father escape?

Internet dating

2009-03-30T10:10:00.005-04:00

No one wants to
grow old; date a gentleman
sporting a ball cap.

You're reaching, G.W.

2009-03-30T10:07:00.003-04:00

I invent peanut
pills for headaches; I am George
Washington Carver?

Trimming service

2009-03-26T19:05:00.003-04:00

The CO2 death
of the 6 o' clock subway;
plants root silently

The Slumlord disappointment

2009-03-25T15:21:00.007-04:00

He won't let us up
after all these years. The lift
is down for repairs.

Teen heartthrob

2009-03-25T12:17:00.004-04:00

High cholesterol
causes plaque in arteries
sooner than you think.

Then

2009-03-24T10:35:00.002-04:00

After the collapse:
corporate aftermath; what
will the numbers do?

Now

2009-03-24T10:01:00.005-04:00

The figures all work
out in metrics, collecting
their unemployment

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2009-03-23T10:22:00.007-04:00

You in the woods wave
a sign of caution; of trees
and bodies crossing.

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2008-11-30T19:59:00.002-05:00

You play walk on roles
in how I see you, a film
starring blanks and eyes.

Collect

2008-06-03T15:15:00.006-04:00

Telephones

Hanging up

men on trees

Green

2008-05-15T16:46:00.001-04:00

Are trees masochists?
Do they want to be abused?
No one has asked them.

Throw it to

2008-04-29T21:09:00.003-04:00

The wind must be so
nervous -- even the bravest
keep cautioning it.

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2008-04-15T20:20:00.002-04:00

Water shapes the rocks.
The stones become your face. And
water is your shape.

It's there between people

2008-04-14T20:33:00.003-04:00

I want to twist us
like Oreos and lick out
the creamy center.

suddenly, springs

2008-04-10T22:43:00.003-04:00

menstruation. insects.
stoppage and growths. littering
swarms in the city.

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2008-04-09T21:11:00.002-04:00

Return the mailings
with all the right postage, please.
We must do our part.

New Plan

2008-04-08T14:47:00.001-04:00

A defiant moth
waits for the flame to find her.
It works just as well.

Growing old together with tape worms in Mexico

2008-03-15T22:29:00.005-04:00

Everything was all
right until one died. Then one
starved all for nothing.

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2008-02-22T02:54:00.004-05:00

where we learned trust and
sincerity was one hell
of a damn good school.

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2008-02-22T02:53:00.002-05:00

if you hugged me now
i'd tense up and lose my nerve.
i'd give in that much.

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2008-02-22T02:53:00.001-05:00

when you said you loved
me, i was washing a cup
in the sink, thinking.

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2008-02-22T02:52:00.001-05:00

i have hurt many
people and the oak wood bar
doesn't move an inch.

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2008-02-22T02:51:00.002-05:00

a nail gun learns words
to speak but thinks better of
it all and just nails.

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2008-02-22T02:51:00.001-05:00

killer whales walk through
Target buying coffee pots
and new cutlery.

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2008-02-22T02:50:00.002-05:00

the liquor runs low
and the spirits run high. then
the tide just...slides in.

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2008-02-22T02:50:00.001-05:00

all of the voices
in the room cheer each other
on and slap asses.

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2008-02-22T02:49:00.000-05:00

raise your glass and then
keep raising to meet the next.
the clink is coming.

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2008-02-22T02:48:00.000-05:00

honk if you still can.
honk if you are still standing --
if it just missed you.

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2008-02-22T02:46:00.001-05:00

she reads a long book
jotting notes on a ticket
to some canada.

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2008-02-22T02:45:00.000-05:00

waves of bone and hip
stutter beneath her skirt. beach boys
mangle up the air.

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2008-02-22T02:44:00.000-05:00

children eat children
and it's no big thing, just fun,
sleepless and joking.

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2008-02-21T16:26:00.000-05:00

-How much is coffee?
-We're gonna fuckin kill you.
-How much is coffee?

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2008-02-21T16:22:00.001-05:00

Nerves emerge as stalks,
as corn waving in wind, break
the skin to the sun.

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2008-02-21T16:19:00.002-05:00

Compulsion whispers
or shouts depending on what
you're willing to take.

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2008-02-07T18:03:00.002-05:00

Marlen is nothing.
Nothing is Marlen. I like
nothing and Marlen.

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2008-02-07T18:03:00.001-05:00

A collapsed building.
Nothing lasts forever. I
will be that building.

milk of amnesia

2008-01-16T18:28:00.000-05:00

If your memory
serves you well, fuckin' toss it
and buy a new one.

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2008-01-07T22:23:00.000-05:00

Pelvis bone shattered.
Forced entry. Rape. Entire
family inside.

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2008-01-07T22:20:00.000-05:00

Pills like basketballs.
Cheeks split quick like bags of chips.
Keep trying. Swallow.

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2008-01-07T22:18:00.000-05:00

Behind the ER
patients covered in semen
shit themselves, want more.

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2008-01-07T22:14:00.000-05:00

A doctor holds you.
Your family watches him
break through the sternum.

Slowly

2008-01-07T22:10:00.000-05:00

A fistful of lips.
A clamp firm around the jaw.
The gums separate.

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2008-01-07T22:07:00.000-05:00

Veins tied to door knobs.
There are teeth inside the meat.
Don't think. Slam it shut.

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2008-01-07T22:03:00.000-05:00

Muscle like cut fruit.
A peach pit of bone, tendon.
Scrape the face to juice.

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2008-01-04T18:57:00.000-05:00

I love you. I love
you. I love you. I love you.
I love you. So...uh...

debit

2008-01-04T18:54:00.000-05:00

I run the tab up
on your hairline, mastercard
runs thick down your cheeks.

this is my talent!

2008-01-04T18:48:00.000-05:00

Let's construct buildings
and leave them empty. Mine will
be huge, functionless.

Onward!

2008-01-04T18:46:00.000-05:00

You've built the perfect
car: big, red, fast. And you don't
care where you're going.

26/19

2008-01-04T18:45:00.000-05:00

Irresponsible:
a relative term if you
don't know what it means.

Nursing the lazy retina

2007-12-18T09:10:00.000-05:00

Sloping eyes are hills
at the city dump; I want
to lick the corners.

credit

2007-12-15T18:15:00.000-05:00

Sale: 1.99!
One dollar for sale! Now for
just 1.99!

A cup of coffee from 20 years ago

2007-12-14T10:22:00.000-05:00

An old empty room.
Where monitors display us,
dust accumulates.

The air, the light, the past and the future

2007-12-14T09:46:00.000-05:00

Everything is
recording us, but no one
watches anymore.

Beam

2007-12-11T16:43:00.000-05:00

The moon comes crashing
in needing money. It's drunk
and getting drunker.

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2007-12-09T19:14:00.000-05:00

A mother, a goose,
runs fast after her children,
screaming bad fables.

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2007-12-03T10:44:00.000-05:00

In a world where ducks
don't sit, you're a sitting duck.
And you can't get up.

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2007-12-03T10:41:00.000-05:00

If you weren't a mouse
pulling thorns from lions' feet,
the grass would still grow.

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2007-12-03T10:39:00.000-05:00

This is how it works:
You're the peanut gallery,
I'm the elephant.

First Last And Forever Repeated

2007-11-19T13:34:00.000-05:00

There's no one more time,
no next time, last time. Only
this time or no time.

12:05 PM

2007-11-12T19:01:00.000-05:00

Nevermind, I don't
want anyone but Jesus.
Join us this Sunday?

11/17: How things change

2007-11-12T18:51:00.000-05:00

I'm out of money.
You have been dead for 6 days.
A man rings the bell.

11/11

2007-11-11T13:51:00.000-05:00

When the war ended,
I got up, walked out the door,
started it again.

12:03 PM

2007-11-11T12:00:00.000-05:00

I want to be your
friend you stupid fucking bitch.
I'm so fucking drunk.

Hope

2007-11-10T12:22:00.000-05:00

Masses walking. A
thousand mile trek. Only
plants cross the border

...

2007-11-10T12:19:00.000-05:00

Half a house. Trains in
trees. Boats in the park. Burnt cars.
It's autumn again.

...

2007-11-10T12:11:00.000-05:00

Closed shops. Looted stores.
Rotted groceries. Looking
for work. Please help me.

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2007-11-10T12:09:00.000-05:00

-- Can you donate more?
-- No, this is all that I've got.
-- Enter the third room.

Finally

2007-11-10T12:07:00.000-05:00

-- Have you heard the news?
-- Please stop talking to me. Please.
-- We're going to die.

...

2007-11-10T12:05:00.000-05:00

Silent arrests. Back
rooms. Contracts. They will drop
the bombs tomorrow.

5 Year Plan

2007-11-10T12:04:00.000-05:00

Beatings. Long car rides.
A brand new welfare program.
Bulldozed into pits.

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2007-11-10T12:01:00.000-05:00

Machines in the street.
People with wires in their heads.
We are connected.

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2007-11-10T11:55:00.000-05:00

Open positions.
Benefits. Perks. Time off.
The only option.