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You don’t want to tango with me, she said.
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the moment he started walking
my hands were given new tasks to do:
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I remember one time that summer I was with you (1964) going to a bar in maybe it was Melrose Park, or Northlake, or somewhere along Roosevelt Road closer to Chicago, not as far as Cicero though. I went there with a crazy gear-head named Roger Hudson, wh
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It’s all a matter of warped mirrors. As in the multi-mirrored passage I stood before as a boy
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weep or go stark mad your amanuensic fool will bury your words
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I'm an older guy. She is still quite young. I tell her I may be too old but she giggles and tells me that she did the research and it said because there is snow on the roof doesn't mean no fire's in the stove. She proved it. Things like this. We excite ourselves,…
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go ahead
stick one more morsel
into that piehole
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I'm in love with Uzma Goef, a beautiful young woman less than half my age.
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“Now God,” Mr. Smashface calls me out by name.
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They were self-contained, two nymphs in a photo booth. Maria wanted something different—love to spread across her face like a wide smile, a certain grace. Sometimes she had found love like that at parties.
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Technique, Technique, Technique, Technique, TECHNIQUE!
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"My god," Toni said, bending over and tapping her head gently against the counter in fake anguish. "His ass in those jeans. Jesus. I should be young and lucky like you." Toni tapped her cigarette ash into the coin tray.
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He's driving in the Sierra Nevada with his wife and their small daughters and the girls are fighting and he can't take much more of it.
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Big hair shoulder pads hell no.
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I know I’m in the sky all night
And can lie back and sometimes have some fun
But these stars around me aren’t everything in life
I still miss the sun
After your first lover threw you back
Into the frozen ocean of life
You never came back
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You're thinking I don't have a conscience, right? I'm asking you.
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"When we say something is good, beautiful, pious, or brave, what idea or image do we hold in our mind?"
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IN TIME,
we will walk on gravel paths
studded with gemstones.
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We’re going to talk about our future like the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40. Like there are 40 great songs this week about our future.
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"People are stupid. They've always been stupid. But these days...." His voice trailed off. "Dumb and dumber, huh?" the Boss asked. Peter nodded.
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This tall, very blonde, very female, friend of mine. . . .
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Everything is on Time’s menu
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"I don't know why you say good-bye, I say hello."--The Beatles Things fall from the clouds. Things fall from thefloor. Maybe through, maybe all the way.Everyone argues for their homeland.Someday I'd like to hold your hand. I'mstill dreaming. I hope it continuesto rain…
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I pull into the parking lot and see a group of roosters squawking and trying to overturn an ‘87 Pontiac Bonneville that's caught fire. They're pouring whiskey down their throats. They're weeping over a bag of economy sized frozen breast fillets.
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We believe in our love storyin spite of the ferocious efforts ofserial bankerseverywhere to discourage us from looking our damned nearprettiest if we really feel like it. I meangranted they do do their ugly troll dogimpressions of…
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You first hear about the wildfire on the old kitchen radio.
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When nothing's coming in All I have are fragments Cloudy memories Uncompleted projects Disappointments loom large and threaten to define me I am only as good as what I produce And now I feel empty So how do I shine How do I find the spark that…
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ghosts are local plagues/of unexpended grief—tears/can't be bodiless.
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I left the train, still going nowhere, but in a hurry.
Still a boy, but trapped in a suit.
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McMurdo Sound. Amundsen. Penguins huddled in a mass...
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