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You treat them like I’m hungry.
Fix it.
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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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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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locking the door against dangerous//
human curiosity and forgetfulness.
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1. Allowance
2. Tooth fairy
3. JFK coin savings bank in clear plastic beveled skyscraper tower
4. Ben Franklin iron coin bank
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Will it take the rise/
of cyber guerillas to finish it/
in the way it should be finished
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The smell of garlic, soy, and onions/
exhausted from Skillman Wok/
perfumes December air.
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the mother tells her child the flashes at the horizonare fireworks, not bombs, so he will not be afraid.at night he curls by the door or else he follows her to a different place. he is quiet, then. as if he knows the secret challenge.better if he and all the others…
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Be careful when you choose your muse,
for she may be a siren.
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Prozac, Lithium, shock treatment,
a time machine, or to ask
Oz that you grow a new heart,
whatever it takes.
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My father owned a penny arcade. I worked for him every summer all during my youth. My job was to hand green tickets to customers who achieved a certain score on Skee-Ball or shuffleboard. The coupons could be redeemed for merchandise which we had on display on…
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When Uncle Bob got sent to the Alzheimer's ward, the ladies licked their lips.
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Shiva and Zeus convene a focus group.
“It wouldn’t work,” the panel votes. “Those leaf eaters would strip the trees and crops if we let them come back every year.”
“That’s true,” Jehovah reasons. “Remember that plague of locusts I sent down?”
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Like a small meteorite, a white cloud falls. The journey seems to have been long since it cannot spring up again, its wings being exhausted. Like a scared and shivering bird, it curls into my hand. Its apparent fragility prevents me from tightening my grip. A unique…
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I recognized the smile. It was a “I’ve got you where I want you now,” smile.
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“Sometimes when I feel the urge to create, I don’t know whether to grab my paints, my camera, my guitar or my pen.”
“You could have sex,” her friend, sitting in the desk next to hers, joked.
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An old man, a widower; living alone, defenseless. It was a given.
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When I got out I didn't buy a new suit of clothes, step into a bar, or bargain for an hour with a whore.
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It’ll all make sense when you're sitting on an éclair chaise longue by the morning pool of coffee.
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Down South now means August cold snap,
the forties roaring my wool cap
off my head.
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