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Future

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Just thinking aloud, really. And by aloud, I mean typing for someone to read haha.

City Girls Never Need Car Keys

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But they all know the parking prayer...

Shatters

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She collects slowly The pieces Each one Heavy with grief Precious and Also bitter

The Escapists

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I sought to feel something. I hunted my mortality. I craved that rush of life pulsating through my veins.

In Passing

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I'm not hungry now The darkness swallows me as they eat. I'm starving now With a pain I can't defeat.

Why They Cried: Deano

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When it came time to sell the agency—when the papers came for him to sign—it was a very bad deal. But he did not cry. This was business. He had gambled and he had lost. He signed the papers without a hint of regret and even pried open a case of champa

All About the Tumor

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Stupidity is not a mask; it is the face / and it is the face that betrays us / always.

Ripening

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My face turns to promise more, but my insides are browning.

Moon Stone

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It is late at night and you lean / over me to make sure your alarm is set.

Suburban Snomance

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rump-a-rump, bat-a-tat, barumpabumbum

Keepers

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His hands go up and down on me. You love me don't you he says. I don't know I say.

Good intentions, and all that.

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There was something in the pressure and the urgency that made her smile, and then laugh. It was like carrying heavy furniture while someone made a joke--the effectiveness of the joke seemed directly proportional to the weight of the furniture. What was it

Poets and Roadkill

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It is indisputable that poets love roadkill...

the hungarian artist

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What led to the current situation was that about a year ago the conceptual artist had been shocked to read in a small item in a newspaper that a conceptual artist in China had also grown an ear on his forearm and this discovery had led the conceptual artist to make a …

Moon View Mountain Road

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I once read a book of warnings.

Giacometti

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He tells me that only a few things had happened in his life but some of them he had felt deeply.

Bon Bons

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love notes yellowed through the years

Brian's Bride

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I had a dream. "And it was a long dream, as dreams go. . ."

Three Houses Down

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I walked on hot coals. She got ahead of me. (228 words)

The Measure Of A Man

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Cos I play hard that’s why. Everyday hard. You want someone who ain’t an everyday player ? Try our Closer. But ain’t his fault he’s always sat there in the pen, like he’s taken root. His number lines rely on the rest of the team. So he’s flatl

When Kids Complain

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They say, we have hangnails. I say, I have a bruised leg.

Welcome to the Dark Walls

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“No one ever notices everything: but sometimes it happens, when no one is noticing everything, everyone misses the same thing in the same moment . . ."

My Lucky Tooth

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At that point he would leave and listen to the scientists as they debate as to why the moon has organs and why they are covered in a thick fat.

The Madness of the Gods

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“Have you heard about Lucius?” The lawyer turned to the carpenter. “They say he's gone mad. Just gone; the madness of the gods.” Sitting in the barbershop were the former two, one in his forties and the other of his fifties; a gray-haired…

Wuthering Heights: 21st C Remix (Anti-love version)

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That Bronte woman had me painted like Eminem’s Stan Or a droog from Kubrick

H. Abstract

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“Dear, baby, what do you fear?” Or maybe it was, “Now here are the keys to the lock.”

Mare

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She pulls out of love, while you sit upon the rumble seat, a granted is taken for every crack of the whip. She pulls out of fear. She pulls.

What I wanted 1976

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turn my Dorothy Hamill into a golden shadow

Ladies' Day At Sam's Place

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I'm warming my stool at the far end of the bar as usual, nursing my fourth draft on a balmy Wednesday afternoon when I lock eyes with this lady who's bashing her head through the front door. You've heard the expression, “50-yard fox,” right? —Looks…

Nourish

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The mouth on my breasts is hungry, searching, needing...