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Beth on Route 66

I didn’t move from Chicago to get married or start a new job. I decided to nurse a robin heart by getting away from the stink of Lake Michigan, and

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The Manicurist

Back then, a thistle wore a skirt of blossoms.Death streaked your toenails blue. I asked if I was wrong in leaving you.Walking along Leona Canyon, I answered no. The manicurist

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Iphigenia at Lunch-time

I’m exiled in a countrybetween two great waterswhere tornados churn housesinto toothpicks, a mall that used to grow corn. Lunch-time I serve french fries a uniform disguisewith few requirementsnodding yes or no until I disappear 

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I Support Planned Parenthood

Hard to believethey’re closing the doors againthe whole right to life thing.  No man knows how to create a home  from dreams, prayers, yearningthe magic stuff of umbilical fluid not the

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