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What's Wrong

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I’ll tell you what’s wrong

Let’s Make a Landscape

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Viewed correctly, nature is an inexhaustible storehouse of clichés. A successful landscape is their pleasing rearrangement.

Fuzzy Mollis

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My small kitchen has barely enough room to turn around in, yet I had the feeling I was being watched. When I experience it again, just seconds later, I realize it was eyes watching, actual eyes, not a camera or machine.

The Dirt

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The coffin-sized pit in his basement wasn’t freshly dug.

Irish Drunk

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Your honour stinks of failed fishing trips to Galway.

Cheese (train writings)

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"This tastes like goat cheese," I said.

Boom Boom Boom Boom

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“Man, that Fats just nothin’ but a powerhouse, nothin’ but ‘Jesus Rolled Away the Stone’ and them Cats his apostles.” La KeeSha replied, “Ya’ll a real Blues Daddy now.”

Key West with Poo and Company

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Excerpt from Flamingo …

thumbing through the Jesus book

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We’re on our way out, my brother and me, to the grave­yard.

Disappearing Ink

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Our ink was disappearing. All of it.

History of Moon Velveeta

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Only ever been twelve men on the moon. And one cheese.

Thanks for Looking After Sinamyn

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Here are a few tips/instructions to help you out (though I'm sure you'll do just fine by yourself!):Getting to the Apt.:If you're coming from Riverside, you'll want to turn onto Magnolia. So, if you're coming from north to south on Riverside, that means you'll want to turn…

Snatch 8 (the zombie flash sequence--it never dies)

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Oh, gracious mercy, oh...

secrets

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Don’t worry about what went aloud. I said nothing.

Listening to Neil Young on a Gray Day and Understanding Clearly What My Grandfather Told Me Long Ago

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I'm a lot wiser now but so what?

Out the Window

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she lifted and threw her legs out the open side front window of the speeding auto

Four Out of Seven

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Four nights out of sevenI will lay with youFour nights out of sevenIt's the best I can do In the day, we will bake our breadAt night, ha, we will break our bed!Four nights out of seven, I will be with you

care & danger

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When Roger was small his two favorite toys were a tiny, squat doll called Care and a rubber millipede.

Books

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It sometimes happens a student remains a friend long after you both have abandon academe.

Nest

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He spends his Sunday morning spraying WD-40 through the straw-like stream attachment at the expansive paper nest of beige and ivory striped wasps.

der Morgenmuffel

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I sat on the corner of her desk ... Angela Merkel can be a sweetie when she wants to be.

John Bonham

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There is an empty space, between every note in rock 'n' roll, where they have buried John Bonham,

Life Experience

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Karen likes to make a big deal about life experience. Specifically how much more she has than me. What that actually means, she's never made clear. The definition changes and mutates as the years go by, always in her…

On Socks

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There’s a hole in my sock, just large enough that my big toe keeps slipping out.

Stranded

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They come to mind/ like ice flowers/ on the small panes

Receding Haiku

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love weaves a perforated web between the spikes of longing

Basal Distance

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are you like the rest of us and you disagree with war yes i said i disagree with war and he said only one man agrees with war but he won t go to the war

A Jungle Tale

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He awoke with a start. This was not the first time he did so. He couldn't afford these occasional bouts of sleep. And certainly not in the land of the Tsantsa hunters.

O'Arlo's Journal: About Myself

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Every morning if I don't have to go potty....

The Beast Remembers Its Broken Promise and Starts to Cry

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It's a good thing too—because Of the way that feeling Made her even more beautiful than usual. You shouldn't doubt such an obvious Feeling. It's a good thing— Because frankly you have Been informed before. When Beauty …