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by James Laughlin (Author) "I was waiting for the bus on Canal Street near an old deserted brick warehouse suddenly I noticed a movement in the bricks on the..." (more)
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The Actress
The Aesculapians
The Afterthought
Agatha
An Amorous Enjoinder
An Apotropaic Decision
Are You Still Alone
An Attestation
Before I Die (for Jeanine Lambert)
The Bible Says
The Biographer
Bless You, Mr. President
Blue Booties & Pink Booties
The Bonding
The Calves
Catullus Xlviii
A Certain Impermeable Person
Charles Bernstein
The Chips Are Flying
The Church Ladies
Cicero Wrote
Clutches
Contra Deconstructionem
The Creatures Of Prometheus
The Darkened Room (2)
Der Rosenkavalier
The Dialogue
Don't Try To Explain
A Door That Opens
The Enchanted Birchtree
The English Governess
The Ewige Weibchen & The Mermaids
Expectations
The Figure In The Stone
Five Years Ago: Five Lives Ago
The Flemish Double Portrait
The Flight Of Icarus
The Flight Of The Nethrobods
For A Clever Young Person
For The Finders Within
Grumpus At 78
Heart Island
How To Talk About Sex
Ibykus
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In My Imagination
The Inscription
An Interrogation
The Intruder
It Is So Easy
It Won't Be Long Enough
It's Spring
Jack
Kenneth Rexroth
The Kiss
Knowledge
'l'argent N'a Pas D'odeur'
La Tristesse
Lines To Be Put Into Latin
Little Bits Of Paper; An Ars Poetica
Long And Languorous
Losing Body Heat
The Lost Secrets
The Love-candy Teaser
Making A Love Poem
The Man In The Wall
The Master Of Stupidity
The Mathematics Of Chaos
The Moths; Remembering Vladimir Nabokov
The Moving Cloud
Murderer
My Cousin Alexander
My Own Name
The New Book
Odi Et Amo
The Old Indian
The Oracles
Our Domain
Panem Et Circenses
The Poem Factory
The Prisoner
A Problem Of Semantics
The Punishment
The Respectful Church
The Rodent
The Scar
The Self-tormentors
The Sensualist Of Pain
The Shameful Profession
Silentium Aureatum Est
Skiing In Tahiti
The Story Of Rhodope
The Stranger
The Sultan's Justice
Ten Dollars Reward
That Voice
The Thinking Machine
The Third Life
Three Glimpses: At The End
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Time Running Backwards
The Time Stealer
To Get To Sleep
To Mistress Kate Gill
The Transformation
Two Parables From 'the Ocean Of Story': 1
Two Scenes From The Leterary Scene & A Letter
Una Ricordanza Tenera
The Vagrant
What Is Hoped For
What The Old Bedouin Told Me
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I was waiting for the bus on Canal Street near an old deserted brick warehouse suddenly I noticed a movement in the bricks on the surface of the wall as I watched the figure of a man appeared on the wall at first just a faint gray shape that became clearer until it was a whole man (but the face not very clear) a gray man in a rumpled gray suit he wasn't dead because he moved his arm as if he wanted to get my attention the passersby on the street didn't seem to notice him he was no one I had ever seen before did he want to speak to me had he been sent by someone who knew me with a message he lasted only a few moments then faded back into the bricks of the wall there was no longer a person there what did he want to tell me did he mean to warn me did he intend to say you too have appeared and will vanish don't hope for more there is no more the bus came to the curb and I climbed aboard. Read the first page
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