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***BIO*** Stephen Moore has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area his entire life. This is where he wrote "Tree of Poets: an Anti-Bukowski View of Contemporary Poetry" and "Canon".  Stephen currently lives in the desert.
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Losing the Soft Grip or Blame in the Ghost of an Actress
by Stephen Moore
How can I be the worst thing
that has ever happened to you?
    Falling off a couch when you were seven
    and a nurse in medical gloves
    stole anything you could ever give me.

How was L.A.?

Did you wait
on any movie stars?

Now that it has been
three years
I don't feel the need to mix words.

You've told the same secrets before
and I told them to the world.

Global publication of an admission
to a casual allusion to insanity.
I am acting on the assumption
that I was born and did not
appear sixteen in your bedroom.

I cannot remember anything I haven't
exaggerated. Looking back I don't
remember what loving you felt like.
May 2007
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