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It was the losers’ bar in my neighborhood.
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I'm not sure if my heart is breaking Or attacking Like an aged lovesick romantic with a faulty beat, I sense a valve needs replacing But only after the main artery has been sutured and made whole By a seasoned and skilled Midwest surgeon in a…
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“It's a combination of ‘Survivor' and ‘College Bowl' says Sister Mary Agnesita, the show's host. “We take four very strict nuns and match them up with boys who were cut-ups in their grade school classes."
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so one time the Holy Ghost come down to Stumptown
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Stupid's rising up, I see. Melting all the intellect. I before E, except after C, but that's not how the alphabet goes.
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["This is not a snippet of text. This is only a test."]
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Style Shifts “Oh, yes, my cousin. We were rude boys until the armed gangs started to gather. Used to be we could pass a night driving, playing our songs, acting tough. Yeah. We'd mouth off, flash some teeth, spark some anger when we felt like it. We…
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The jail, where I stayed for 48 hours, gave me enough information to write a 180-page book, something I resisted setting out upon due to the insult of it.
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Periodically I try to vacuum up their eight-legged asses but they hide in the cable drop.
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Somewhere in her the name triggers/
a grainy chain of Cheech & Chong
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There's still a swatch of jelly on his lower lip. Did you notice? That's not the way it's done, even on the tractor.
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Defy the impulse to grow beyond/
your means and the means of the/
place where you lie at night.
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ride crests and troughs of ceaseless change, / without delight but without fear, / and once it’s time to leave, then simply go, /
without regret, with no unseemly fuss.
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He wiped it with a damp cloth. He set it in a glazed clay pot next to the sofa and admired its scrawny handsomeness.
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Once there was a man who wrote in code. He was comfortable among substitutions
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and there is no climbing up/
to any height, and the sun/
is cloaked by cloud,
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rump-a-rump, bat-a-tat, barumpabumbum
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The imitator’s segue to his sad life story was, “But what isn’t funny…”
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Subways are silver
Taxis are yellow and
Trees are green.
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Suddenly a Shakespearean sonnet, …
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Rogue sits bedside in Jello Biafra’s hospital room.
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She used to think of him as someone to entertain with charming lies, but things evolve in unexpected ways.
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At first we thought we could get by using honey so we all stormed the SuperMart and cleaned the shelves out of Suzie Bee Honey. First the jars and then the squeeze bottles, but it wasn't the same. Then Mary Sue yelled out “How about brown sugar?”…
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take out the yellowed recipes/
left by mothers and grandmothers—//
perhaps the great aunt who never married—
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They continued sitting by the fake oasis, drinking single malt, eating soy crackers and chatting about the quality of escorts in glitzy glamping resorts. The Paring happened on number three. Just as the gold leafed chocolate fondant oozed decadent Bolivia
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At school, Joe knew the answers to the questions. He used to jump up onto his desk and wave his arm before Mrs. Gestapo told him he would have to stop or he would go to the principal’s office, where the other kids said that the principal made you pull d
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i was jus countin' your heartbeats, Emmie
and you know what?
i think they's the same as mine!
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Maybe in some lie you told, your life began making sense. Not mine. But your quiet beauty may be what carries you. We have to both quit eating Couch Potato Chips, and read the book Tender Is the Squid, instead. Your ghosts – they’re so soft and sensitive.
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