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leave the dog, take the cannoli

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he who laughs last is probably a dumbass fuck

Beautiful Girls

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and all the beautiful girls are in the river And they went in dirty But they came out clean

Frostproof Suite: Clown Car

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My job was take the falls, act the dope, finish at the wrong end of the slap stick for the blow off. I was Auguste, the fool; I drove the clown car.

But It's Been a While

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When I first met Luther he was sitting on the sidewalk, his back pushed up against a vacant storefront wall, thumbing through the “help wanted” section of a few-days-old copy of our local paper and I was moved to offer him a couple of dollars for which he said,…

Like Water

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I become a lake, a river, a stream, an ocean that will one day be able to move anything, anyone.

Begettings

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However did we make it this far/ without murdering one another as the other sleeps

Taking a Bath with my iNuke

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Mickey Mouse mini-nukes are often placed in children's school lunch boxes for cooling sandwiches, though an accidental meltdown could cause the food to become dangerously hot in both senses of the term.

Removals

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Her mother was worried.

Iowa Voters

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I miss my fire from the first three races

Teleprompts

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In what appears to have been a coordinated, coast-to-coast attack, country clubs across America were attacked last night with firebombs and heavy contaminations of herbicides.

I Scream

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she peeled back the white wrapper from around her ice cream sandwich slowly, methodically

Louis Belfast

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"You know, there really is a death of the heart."

Wind Drinks Time Like Wine

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but let's stop and take another look at things could it be through our closed eyes that we didn't really know what we were talking about that there never was a surprise

Year End Closeout

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At some point, indifference// will swallow the small gasps./ The appalling will become the norm.

Sweet Dreams

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But tonight the circus is dark. She is free to go to her lover, to embrace, to float in the night sky.

Reincarnation for T. Waits

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Your fuckin' shoe.

Dead Girl Rolling

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They left me on a gurney for hours...

Swicks Rule!

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She waves her hand around, says, “Pah!” and starts digging invisible things out of the potato salad with her bare hands.

No Adjectives

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She looked up, blinked. Fuck are you? I shook my head. Nobody you’ll remember, I said.

Black Orchids

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I told him he was just paying for his sins. He gave me a look. "Why me?" he asked.

Small Snow Haiku.

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A small snow.

Funny Jokes

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Why was the broom late for work?

The Greatest Narcissist on Earth

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I forgot how masterful you are, way better than a pickpocket. After our meeting, I drove home with one hand. It felt funny but I figured I'd absentmindedly put the other in my purse or tossed it into the backseat with my jacket. In my…

THE SHIFT

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"leaves &damage, &shifts of shape"

The Time Broker

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When I finally met the time broker, he sat at an antiquated mahogany desk with no computer. He looked up and waited for me to speak. "Time for sale," his ad had advertised, and I was ready to pay

Surprise

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a shy girl

Pink

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Together / they peeled and fed each other pink fruit, / ordered expensive pink beef, went on / vacations and viewed pink sunsets / on paradise beaches.

The Eyes of the Inmate

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The courts had scheduled the date long ago but the time, an hour always left to the warden, had yet to be decided.

Written Six Weeks Before

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March 16, 2006 My mail, e-mail, and phone calls go from the ridiculous to the sublime. Apologies for the cliché, but I can't resist its perfect applicability: In my mailbox today yet another catalogue of boob jobs in bikinis and an invitation to explore…

Modest Proposal

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It could be fun,/ with the guns, explosives, Molotov/ Cocktails and all,