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Future

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

Writing in the Dark

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and to adorn my hair I chose every kind of light

In tidal relief

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the world slips under the waves

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."

drinking buddies

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Tonight, Bukowski and I drink together.

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…

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

Spilled Milk

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(I'd appreciate some feedback on this very weird story.) A Frosted Mini Wheat walks in to a bar...

Buttons

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

Counter intuit

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I I I I

Dear Mouth

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...you vigorously screamed blasphemies at inanimate objects

now

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koalas burning

The Blankey

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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. All was confusion in the Lubrecht house. Baby Lubrecht had discovered that his favorite blankey, thought by him to have been lost, was in fact being used by his older sister, Lilly Lubrecht.…

Bare Feet

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Bare feet on hardwood floor Twists into circles

Meanwhile

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I saw/ star shine in/ my silver pail

Coffee Shop

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the/ orange/ tastes/ welcome

Artesian Moon

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

Paddle/ Pedal/ Piddle

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You say boxer briefs, I say pillbox hats

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.

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?” …

Six Theories of Gorilla

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1. BLAME THE PARENTS This seems to be the most popular position on social platforms. Mom and Dad should have been watching this kid more closely. Period. Because how could any good parent fail to notice their own child climbing over a…

Stupidest. Film Director. EVER!

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

Doors

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Marge came home with a Doors CD.

Beard-Men

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

After the Poison

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I've measured out our time togethersealed it in airtight bottlesthe one labeled 1998 kept closelike smelling saltsOne whiff a camphor waking memaking me high on the idea of usputting blinders on your infidelitiesdouble vodkas and damaging wordsAnd when that isn't enoughI…

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…