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Then for a few seconds, maybe even a minute or two, we wallow in a sensual shower of raw emotion. Our defenses are nonexistent and we are overwhelmed with care and gratitude. Suddenly, we love our enemies and are willing to forgive our trespassers.
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There are no inspirations./
There are only the things I like/
and the much more numerous//
things I do not like.
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I heard a voice. It was calling me as from a far-off cloud. I listened, holding my breath, and heard it again, though fading away, barely audible. If I hadn't known my name I wouldn't have decrypted it. Three hazy syllables clearly detached with a sigh between each of them.…
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Last-minute women notice me and latch on, converging in narcotized spirals, old sunflowers twisting towards a fake light. Ugly, used up people, turning like dirty snow, terrified of facing the sunlight alone, of the hour long drunken drive home.
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The revolution. It found me, and I didn’t even get blown by the bomb.
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Beyond a jade gate, a lotus pillar nods to / a braided fort.
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In the summer when it's light out later it's my nature to linger a couple of hours in the park after work, just standing around watching the Downtown Divas working the corner, offering themselves to each male driver who stops for the light and I always joke with them about…
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Heel to toe, our bunions
are our ingrown medals.
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Hardly a soul could pin him for creating the vehemence that found a streamule to her pen if she wrote in cursive or a fanjet to her keyboard if she typed quickly and satisfyingly in print, employing eight fingers and two thumbs—
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I enjoyed the talking part though
rambling on and on for lord knows
why or how
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...where I grew up the only celebrity one could count on seeing was Santa Claus...
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respect your parents. or not.
stay put. or not.
finish school. or not.
get married. or not.
stay married. or not.
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Where was she exactly? There is, of course, no answer to this question. But that didn't stop me from asking it. Constantly. Obsessively.
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A friend of mine is killing me With all of her lies. If I die tonight, you can bet it's Because of her. A friend of mine Is killing me with those lit eyes like Twin pyramids holding up her rambling Blue skyline. Look I don't have to …
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1521 11 6
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You treat them like I’m hungry.
Fix it.
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536 11 4
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Christian Bell can’t sleep in/on the following: airplanes, car trips, couches, first nights in hotels, jury duty holding area, commuter train, work breakroom, tent, park bench, the ground.
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how much is downed/
to counteract the down/
with deeper down.
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Names are forbidden here. So is apology.
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Your precious feet were there once, pressed against the familiar floorboards, where your poems suddenly appeared to you, flashing like lightning. I wonder which window they came in? Here's a thought: you were like that window. You caught…
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1518 11 6
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I might wish I was anything
including some dust on the shelf
where maybe I might blow away
unseen like the coming of rust
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If you can’t consummate tomorrow / you may as well just annul the future
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Today’s new YouTube kitten;
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She had just done it in the backseat with the man she decided would be her father. Or maybe it was the cast of his eyes under the dim bar lights. Maybe she insisted that this had to be done, to relive the night under the stars, under a dented roof of a station…
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She called for land usage to fulfill a social function, to provide an affordable and sustainable way of life for all.
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The universe extracts no retribution./
It annihilates without a thought/
of evil/good, sin/virtue.
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the swarthy terror network
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