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Cool Gray Redemption

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I’ve been such a fool, so reckless and untrue.

A hushed something

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Her skin is muddy earth/ I'd gladly play in.

The Dead

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When i close my eyesI see the faces of the deadI hear their voices The things they said, their laughter The ones i thought would live forever!! Something got them though: the ones who lived fastIt was a drug, some bullets, a disease I thought they would live forever!!Those…

Strip (Her)

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There’s not enough cigarette cloud to conceal her, malnourished and pale beneath blue and pink lights that summon 80s-era skate rinks. She saunters towards the center of the stage, asking her bored expression to convey detachment, while a DJ that fits the

Bogart Generations

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Great Uncle did stunts in silents and shot a man in a cowboy one-reeler, then vanished to the hills like Roy Earle in High Sierra.

trying to be honest but twitter is over capacity

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To be honest, I've always wanted to be black

Drought

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Where we live, at the edge of the foothills at the east edge of town, fire is always a worry during the summer, and this has been an exceptionally dry year.

Misunderstood

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Leonard didn't know that cute girl well, hardly at all, but he really wanted to. She was his first real crush in Junior High. He got his chance and talked to her some one day while they were walking down the hall between classes. She actually spoke to him first. The bell…

After Baptism, He Speaks

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The world is full of dead dogs

Letters from the Asylum (3)

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She stepped into a pair of high heeled slippers and began to dance. She was Salome, a witch, dancing like the most beautiful, the most skilled whores of Paris.

Spinning Walt Whitman

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In San Francisco, there rides at night a phantom streetcar whose driver is none other than Walt Whitman . . .

Small Change

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Life seemed okay…for the most part.

Dublin

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My swinging purse sent saucers tinkling to the tile and the copper-headed waitress flew over, swooping on the shatter, clutching clean forks like a handful of flowers.

Didn't I always let you have one of my cigarettes?

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I liked the taste in my mouth, mint and cigarettes and fresh and filthy.

FAMILY VALUES

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that is a fair description of our family if I add the disclaimer that the girls are whores and we don’t have much in common.

Threads

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She said he was missing the whole point: it was a decoration, not an actual pillow. You were supposed to place it somewhere artful.

A Journey of Seven Thousand Miles

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The taste of / what is denied us is always sweet

juvenile haiku

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leaves of a season/float into a brook among/bubbles fit to burst.

Folded Up

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Time to pull in the shining teeth, but it makes me so sad, you know I'd rather be holding hands. The others have told me, don't hold back, hit them with every white knuckle, and let them bleed out, I'd rather be kissing your face. It hurts,…

Nightcap

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I formed a snowball in my bare hands. Hard as a rock, I let her fly.

Antigone Détente

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Tan my hide. Feed me to rabid / macaques.

The New World

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And so we conquered.

Impromptu Retranscriptions from the 'Song of Songs' (erotic poetry - explicit language)

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I. When my lips mouth yours where they are…

Similarities

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She was skinny and with breasts like a wound up skein of yarn.

Paper House

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Because if they’re wavering, it's about the coin, always about the coin.

Fuck Ups

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we try, we keep trying

I've Got a Secret

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There's a man sitting in my room holding a jar of my ashes. That's what he claims.

Trombones and Figs

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“What are you doing, Maestro?"

Helmet

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The tiles begin inching toward him as soon as he moves. You've seen filings on glass. He's the magnet on the underside.

cloth

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i want out