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The steady sound of shoveling for the past three hours would have woken her, should have made her come to the window...
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It could as well be late night infomercials/
saturating the screen//
with medieval looking exercise machines
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I'm still working on this. I'm always open to your thoughts.
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What happens in heaven stays in heaven.
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In one of the cartoons I watched as a child, Popeye the Sailor gives Olive Oyl a bouquet of flowers. She is thrilled, he walks on air, thinking they will marry. His one-eyed heroism is soon challenged by Bluto however, who pours cement into Popeye's bath. It goes…
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Megalomania is a kind of backwards leprosy. It rots your insides out while your skin glistens and grows tighter around your bones.
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No jagged bits of crust were thrust up/
through the prairie’s black gumbo/
to give us cataclysmic mountain views.
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that guy/ MOSTLY understood / endings
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The universe will fuck you over in the end./
That’s what it does, what it’s good at—
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My editor even said so: “Ralph, the Karmann Ghia is the only car for Henry. The only one he could have possibly driven.”
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Dread and drudgery sour each day
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sentinels in a frost-blackened field
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Effluvium is such a lovely word, so hey surprise it covers rancid butter, vomit, fertile gingko fruit trekked in from the pavement.
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I work in finance. Yes, I have money. Yes, my apartment building has a doorman.
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Stupidity is not a mask; it is the face / and it is the face that betrays us / always.
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...lotus roots carved with clunky holes like a mouse’s drawing of Swiss cheese.
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heart-shaped stones
love, devotion
no way
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Go diddle in the sand//
to save some other sinner/
a death of stones.
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You should be calling 911
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Here they come, those witnesses.
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It was a lovely day all the horrors in deep hiding
leaving me, leaving all of us, a chance to wonder why
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It seems that back in 1911, Kaiser Wilhelm came to this town
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A retired feminist literary agent named Jackie and her boyfriend, Jock, were on board. Jock was kind as one might expect of a man traveling with a feminist, and Jackie was happy yet stern. She mentored me one day over lunch.
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You need buttered broths and to
copy old writings by hand by
very poor light.
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We are the same shits/
we were in the Bronze Age
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The man had come up behind me and locked my arms backwards. I could feel his cock or gun against my low back. He told me if I moved he'd hurt me and he said did I know what that meant? I did know, however I was watching from…
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“Phennias Jessup is his name. That’s his death’s head scroll, an hourglass, bats, spirals and angel’s wings on either side of the top part of the stone. "
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