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Future

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

The "Just Do It" Moon

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The calls come in a few times a week. When the unknown someone calls Safety Now, Radon Testing and Elimination Headquarters, Mrs. R. wonders who it is that just sits silently on the other end of the line. She wants to say, "Look, if you're a bill colle

drinking buddies

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Tonight, Bukowski and I drink together.

Bare Feet

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Bare feet on hardwood floor Twists into circles

Famous Female Artist

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I remember being sent a picture once from one of my old roommates, Louise, back in Chicago where I came from. The photo was taken when she’d come out for a visit to California. In the picture I am sitting on the front stairs of my house in the Rockridge

Stupidest. Film Director. EVER!

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["This is not a snippet of text. This is only a test."]

Arcana Magi Pure - c.5

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Emi however, took her sister’s arm and looked at the bandage. Her normal green eyes stared coldly at the wound made by one of the large centipedes. Mayumi realized there was some sense of emotion from Emi wanting to come out.

Paddle/ Pedal/ Piddle

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You say boxer briefs, I say pillbox hats

I Am the Poet Laureate

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I am the Poet Laureate of my bedroom I am the Poet Laureate of 6065 Chabot Road, Jokeland I am the Poet Laureate of the Loser Café I have wind in my shoes if not my hair I am the Poet Laureate of Karmic Impulses Of tabloids and gossip I am

The Pilgrimage

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Frey wanted to see heaven without having to die. He had returned from the sea after being gone for three weeks, ranting wildly about a giant ship he had seen in the distance one afternoon.

everywhere i go

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it’s women i’ve loved/ or men i owe money

Pins

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The wind is wet today I can't tell you where sky meets sea only that it matters I can't explain why. I've triedCan't see the horizonbut I know that we have drawn itfingers tracing far pastthe edge of blind infinitywhere we sang stars to sleepand pinned our…

Nope.

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Can't cope. Got no hope. Got no dope. Call the Pope. Get the rope.

Dear Mouth

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...you vigorously screamed blasphemies at inanimate objects

now

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koalas burning

Not Yeatsian

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Didn't he have like a frog No lips so speak of, and the weathered lizard Look of the frequently face-lifted?

INVIDIA

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"I always disliked such display of religious fervor. I dislike religious fervor. Period."

Overheard While Buying Tires in Willits

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She breezes through the door, cellphone to ear, with the confidence of the affluent. Can you look at my left rear tire, the dashboard indicator says it's low. Back to her phone, Oh, Marsha, hi, how are you, you gorgeous WOMAN, you!? Hey, I'm on my way to…

Buck Moy

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Then he told us tales of skulls and planks, galleons and parrots, silver and gold on crystal Jamaican seas under deep ruby skies.

Meanwhile

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I saw/ star shine in/ my silver pail

Buttons

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I opened my switchblade mouth and sliced through the scab of silence.

Long Term Medical Plan

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“It's going to be hitting around the mid-90's tomorrow” said the television expert. “So what? Like 1995?” “Maybe, perhaps even '96” “Does this mean I should break out my Backstreet Boys record?” …

Before My Change Jar Went Missing

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These are the small miracles we witness from my barrio stoop.

The Committee

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We are prisoners of anticipation.

Doors

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Marge came home with a Doors CD.

Artesian Moon

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If you want job security on this planet, you'd better study art.

Beard-Men

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Sometimes they bleat like sheep when I shave in the shower. They live in a complex social order.

Phantom

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I am in the hallway, but I don’t sense it. That is to say: I don’t feel my body. I am like a phantom, a limbless entity floating, flailing.

Rescue

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I wake up with the taste of mud in my mouth. Ashy, sulfurous, charred, with traces of rotten shellfish.

The Case of the Phantom Paperclip

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I was sitting on the steps in the entryway to our apartment building taking off my running shoes when I spotted a paperclip on the floor. I assumed it had fallen from the mail that my wife had just taken from our mailbox. Once my shoes were removed, I went down to pick…