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we agreed the turkey’s nest tavern (on 94 bedford ave and north 12th street)...

* -pour a little out for- *by someone looking at the same night sky as you for different answers* (frankie leone, just a man)  * *she seems like she’s somewhere else  - sitting quietly but not...

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at mars bar (on 25 east 1st street between 2nd ave and bowery) you said, “no...

* -tough guy- *by someone who’s never seen a guinea cowboy* (frankie leone) * *hollywood fabricates glimpses of tough guys. even the conjured pain of convincing actors can’t be expressed well with...

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you won our brawl in rivington 151 (on 151 rivington between clinton and...

* -jig-saw puzzle hatred- *by someone who should’ve burned the pieces long ago* (frankie leone, just a man) * *her smiles are skinny jeans fresh out the dryer  - but those clear eyes tired walks in the...

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you laughed when i said, “let’s wait two hours to eat the hippest frittata in...

* new short story coming soon * -i remember- *by someone who remembers the past to repeat it in a grander fashion* (frankie leone, just a man) * *i remember buying v*** dinner  - she didn’t shave her...

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we learned what a rough day was speaking to a waiter at villa berulia (on...

* -tired- *by someone who could use rest* (frankie leone, just a man)  * *his bar’s beautiful. the bar itself is oak and the lamps have been chosen carefully. still, it’s plain he doesn’t enjoy being...

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the camera-phone-picture-bouquet i sent you was an arrangement out front...

* -sixth grade- *by someone who’s never let youth get in the way of forming bad habits* (frankie leone, just a man) * *she’s white - like snow, ivory or cocaïne - a pretty enigma in my mind - i watch...

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i dug your new threads (on 132 2nd ave and st. marks place) – 26...

* -”the rain man”- second part to “-promoter-” *by someone planning to get a netflix account* (frankie leone, just a man) * *i purchased less-than-legal goods more than once in yesteryears. sometimes i...

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the bar stool wobbled and you said, “i need to move to brooklyn,” at sophies...

* -odds and ends- *by someone considering a moving sale* (frankie leone, just a man) * *a bottle of disappearing ink stands in a well-lit garage - camel cigarette dangling from her lips studded belt...

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you made fun of the napkins at 151 kent avenue (between north 4th and north...

* -napkins- *by a proud cliché* (frankie leone, just a man) * *brushing blonde hair out of her face she asks, “what are these?” “sometimes i walk the streets at night…” “like a prostitute,” a...

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at the bronx zoo (on 2300 southern boulevard) you commented, “i’d maul the...

* -lion- *by someone hoping to escape the new cage he’s built* (frankie leone, just a man) * *a man with a few scars and a few regrets - remembers - visiting the zoo as a child  - seeing crowds of...

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you asked if my mother had facial hair at the 2nd ave deli’s new spot (on 162...

* -jew- *by a dego* (frankie leone, just a man) * *her grandparents are ukrainian jews but that hasn’t stopped her from not knowing shit about the ukraine or judaism. she grew up in windsor terrace,...

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rolling your eyes you remarked, “the love you’re professing has way more to...

* -romantic- *by someone who has issues setting realistic goals* (frankie leone)  * *she’ll never want me  - never has never will  - which is why i want her  - but never have and never will.* * (enjoy...

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on the corner of n6th and bedford you told a kid, “get outta here before i...

* -hypocrite- *by someone who isn’t well read* (frankie leone, just a man) * *the corner of n6th and bedford’s his. the neighborhood street vendors know it. his voice, tempered with a bronx accent,...

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at the sugar shack on far rockaway beach (at 2 roxbury ave) i saw your stare...

* -impure thought- *by someone who’s a sucker for good poison* (frankie leone, just a man) * *they’re candy flavored, my cyanide fantasies - without cellulite giving off aromas of wet latex feeling...

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we shot dice at east river state park (on kent avenue between n 7th st and n...

* -dice- *by someone losing the strength to lift them* (frankie leone, just a man) * *he walks out of the water. his clothes drip. close-fitting jeans, wife-beater, hole-filled shoes, and a bandanna...

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you got uncomfortable when i carved my name on the wall at john’s pizzeria...

* -it ends in a vowel- *by someone whose name’s on his birth certificate, not created for the stage, pen, or reinvention of self* (frankie leone, just a man) * *”you know, you’re not really white”  -...

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we had a moment where i was born [at beth israel medical center on 286 1st...

* -syphilis- *by someone who learns the hard way* (frankie leone, just a man) * *be gentle with razors. use enough shaving cream and moisturizer too.* * *it isn’t working out. she knows it. i know it....

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you gave my scrupals a light at le souk harem (on 510 la guardia place...

* -arson- *by someone who’s restrung his fiddle* (frankie leone, just a man) * *her legs are long enough to scorch pure intentions - in my favorite ways - they’re covered in nylon cobwebs ripped in the...

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you had a bite of my chicken cutlet sandwich from north 5th deli (on 20 n5th...

* -delivery boy- *by someone with a “colorful” work history* (frankie leone, just a man) * *no new york neighborhood boasts pure hopelessness. even the worst ones are cut with chances for...

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you warned me, “remember all this doesn’t suspend our humanity, ok?,” on the...

* -one eye open- *by someone followed only by the blind* (frankie leone, just a man) * *i’m desperate to believe i’m the hustler so end up being the last one to see  - i’m the hustled* * *the booty...

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i remembered my love for brooklyn walking through prospect park with you. –...

* -knife fight- *by someone who gets creative* (frankie leone, just a man) * *i always feel like a dirt bag drifting towards unconsciousness post sex. they’re awake and very aware i’m falling asleep...

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you grabbed my hand and led me out of cielo (on 18 little west 12th st and...

* -night club- *by someone who took a while to get it* (frankie leone, just a man) * *the gate keeper’s an old man meticulously groomed - who’s seen too much and knows he’ll see more - while pulling on...

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you threw a drink on me at dominie’s hoek (on 48-17 vernon boulevard between...

* -boxing- *by a southpaw who still has a good right* (frankie leone, just a man) * *happy childhood in a long island suburb. blonde. only wears abercrombie. no piercing or tattoos. teaches me how to...

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you enjoyed when i picked up my last paycheck from friday’s (at 2 penn plaza)...

* -assistant manager- *by someone who feels disdain for chain restaurants* (frankie leone, just a man) * *her spirit’s mangled from lashes received during a life-time of running up gambling debts...

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you shouted my friend and i were cute as we left avenue (on 116 10th ave and...

* -”broken hands”- *by someone trying to piece it all together* (frankie leone, just a man) * *sometimes i drag myself through days, my fingernails sunken into a chalkboard. others i march...

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you took a drag and refused to give back my cigarette at abc no rio (on 156...

* -marlboro grey- *by someone who hopes the smoke never clears* (frankie leone, just a man) * *her eyes are filled with glittery smoke - when her stare meets mine she’s the first cigarette of the day -...

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you said i’d “make a piss poor fag” after we left the dream hotel (on west...

* -fag- *by someone who needs to get up on current events* (frankie leone, just a man) * *we walk out from the same party at the dream hotel to turn up our jacket collars to a cool night. the air’s...

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you ran away to find your drunken friend while i hit on you outside the...

* -le bain- *by someone who doesn’t want to be here when he’s thirty* (frankie leone, just a man) * *the door’s locked and my hands nestle around her throat. i’m not strangling her in a bathroom stall...

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you confessed a teenage me was your hero at manitobas (on 99 avenue b between...

* -idol worship- *by someone who won’t follow ever again* (frankie leone, just a man) * *my middle school teacher asks us to write about our heroes - so i put down my pen and put my mind on the rack* *...

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you got the check at 67 burger (on 67 lafayette and fulton st) and screwed my...

* -parakeets- *by someone who takes his coffee with milk and sugar* (frankie leone, just a man) * *she’s tough. after working shifts at two different jobs she has energy to fuck through our voids and...

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you laughed and said, “you may be a wolf but at least you’re up front about...

* -restless night- *by someone crying out to the same moon as you* (frankie leone, just a man) * *momma and i are morning people - but the malady of night permeates my bones and seduces my spirit -...

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our shitty fakes got us into our first club when we were both fifteen at...

* -job- *by someone who pays his own rent* (frankie leone, just a man) * *music soaks the walls of this professionally decorated room. it might convince your hips to grind against someone else’s....

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in the summer you can’t stand the smell of the streets around dark room (on...

* -scents- *by someone who stopped smoking and doesn’t always enjoy a sense of smell* (frankie leone, just a man) * *love doesn’t smell like lubricated condoms opened by a stranger - or more credit...

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you could move at the house of yes (on 342 maujer street between morgan and...

* -technical- *by someone terrible at calculations* (frankie leone, just a man) * *i like people with technical jobs. engineers, architects, programmers, designers. they know how to get out of their...

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you kissed a guy for the first time at hotel chantelle (at 92-94 ludlow...

* -predator- *by a savage* (frankie leone, just a man) * *she almost makes being a junky look good. the skin on her face is ghostly and marble-esque. i love touching it. a girlish smile is usually set...

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you took me as your plus one to an upscale event at the guggenheim museum (at...

* -the world is yours- *by someone who doesn’t need to take what’s already his* (frankie leone, just a man) * *the radio’s off and old tires spin - with worn ease and comfort as her and i glide east on...

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when it was warm out we had ice cream on the bench in front of tasti d-lite...

* -a kent avenue super gets around to it- *by someone getting more assertive with his building’s management company* (frankie leone, just a man) * *things are changing, but everything is the same. she...

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we never paid our open container tickets from drinking in tompkins square...

* -brawl- (2nd part to “-dice-”) *by someone who doesn’t know if he’s won more fights than he’s lost* (frankie leone, just a man) * *the street fight has stopped being romantic for me. there was a time...

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when i get to pick the restaurant you’re frustrated i always choose the...

* -musician- *by someone who’s heard the music plays on* (frankie leone, just a man) * *most in new york city have an opinion about williamsburg, brooklyn. there are those who hate the locale, some who...

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you were kind enough to give me water and let me use the bathroom when i was...

* -identity crisis- *by someone who walks by himself for a reason* (frankie leone, just a man) * *like a maladjusted teenager orbiting reality, exploded on angel dust i’ve tried to pulverize the image...

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you turned my poorly insulated loft (on 151 kent avenue between north 4th st...

* -savage- *by someone who did the best he could* (frankie leone, just a man) * *she’s my first assistant in a place of bright lights, devious dancing, and ill intentions. a night club. i need her to...

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on the bedford l stop subway stairs (on the corner of north 7th st and...

* -sadness- *by someone resolved to climb out of this pothole* (frankie leone, just a man) * *a pretty girl with short hair petit stature and bright blue eyes - asked me once on the stairwell of the...

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at avenue nightclub (on 116 10th ave and 17th st) the cherry of your...

* -mummy- *by someone looking to join the living* (frankie leone, just a man) * *i’ve always felt like a mummy wandering in the mist. other people are droplets of moisture hanging in the air. i grasp...

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you didn’t get upset when i fought with the waiter for not letting me smoke...

* -a love letter- *by someone who’s heard, “even if doesn’t work out, it’s just another way of it working out.”* (frankie leone, just a man) * *my dearest love *****…* * *i told you once that i spent...

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you were the radical feminist who gave me the first blow job that ever made...

* -chloe- *by someone finding freedom one humbling experience at a time* (frankie leone, just a man) *   *a dollar store fan missing a blade - blows onto my skin coated in a thin layer of sweat -...

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we opted against san loco (on 160 n 4th street) to get something more...

* -the crystal death- *by someone whose time to die hasn’t come* (frankie leone, just a man) * *i walk the streets after 12am on a muggy august night without tangible purpose. the exact hour’s obscured...

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our fight sent me to a county jail in new jersey (at 15 elizabeth plaza). –...

* -closure- (part iii of a series)(part ii: -brawl-)(part i: -dice-)*by someone who’s chosen to walk in the light*(frankie leone, just a man) * *janis joplin was a liar. i’ve lost it all, but don’t...

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you expressed i was crazy via phone call from your shithole in the lower east...

* -unstable- *by someone who’s accepted it* (frankie leone, just a man) * *no one see the world with the same conviction  as the mad man - figments of his imagination hurricaning his view of the world...

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i sold out to amazon.com. – 28 (williamsburg, borough of lost boys)

* question: why is every short story password protected all of a sudden? answer: because i’m broke. published them into ten separate collections on amazon.com. they emailed giving five days to take the...

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you were the understanding branch manager who let me make a cash withdrawal...

-education-*by someone who believesignorance can be bliss*(frankie leone, just a man)* *he always sits by himself on a bench in the corner of the yard. i watch him with a musing curiosity. about twenty...

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