DannyPoet
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2-Truck in the grass/the doors slam heavy and imperfect/ cinnamon from the house as he boots up wood steps behind me and calls me kid
about 21 hours ago
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1-And if I stare comes the window rattle with the road/a seat springs metal and his hand/his grip on the wheel like mine holding this photo
8:33 PM Nov 23rd
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This week Monday through Friday, will be posting a serial called “Untitled summer.”
11:22 PM Nov 22nd
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5-Mom came home with a gypsy girl to feed/Dad read and I kept quiet because through her thin white shirt was the round of my first nipple
12:01 AM Nov 21st
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4-Mom urged Dad to throw ball with me but he stayed heavy in his chair and she took to windy sighs in my direction whenever he was around
9:18 PM Nov 19th
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3-They said he built it all himself, a ground up guy/From nothing rose Dad/And when proud, his big block hands pat me awkward on the head
10:24 PM Nov 18th
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2-Dad raised me on the no son of mine diet of don’ts/No son of mine cries but I did and Dad flipped a loud newspaper while Mom snuck me coco
10:45 PM Nov 17th
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1-It was the year of peace and parking lot runaways, I rode in the backseat with Dad fisting get a job and Mom muttering shrill to stop
9:44 PM Nov 16th
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This week Monday through Friday, will be posting a serial called “Awakened by a thinly veiled sun.” Stay tuned...
11:29 PM Nov 15th
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Sleepaway camp summer so grown and alone shaken by a familiar timbre on the front lawn where his mom stood passing out cupcakes.
1:28 AM Nov 13th
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Domino afternoon playing parkside with boys clicking tiles, their swift hand know how and table talk, a smooth bunch that age that way.
12:09 AM Nov 12th
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He pink tongued a toothless gum and one hand hiked up his pants waist doing the bend over to finger pick a half lit stub in the gutter.
9:41 PM Nov 10th
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He was a tough trolling for schoolyard squabbles, not like his folks who lived the communal and made him one third all household decisions.
11:06 PM Nov 9th
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New kid with my lunch box I spied at the bus stop, okay for liking the same superhero but my friends called him fat so I used a paper bag
2:19 AM Nov 9th
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He said his real parents were pirates on a gold boat about to send for him at any time, not the couple of quiets that never said hello to us
1:59 AM Nov 8th
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We circus clowned and kicked around and I got sick of always getting tamed but he reminded me that it was his Dad that got the tickets
1:17 AM Nov 7th
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His Dad didn’t show so to make it up to her son, they coned on the general store porch of splinter wood, summer melting on their fingers.
11:42 PM Nov 5th
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He doorways away from full moon foolish night but before his disappear, a finger to the sky “I go because I want to not because I have to.”
12:05 AM Nov 5th
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I never slept so soundly as I did that summer, tucked away in the rented yellow, the walls vibrating with the buzz of my parents’ parties.
10:48 PM Nov 3rd
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Man faced and stroller bound / looking out with round browns / as if to say / I’ve walked this mile once before
10:13 PM Nov 2nd
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