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A sturdy and goatish original by know-nothing punks from the sticks. Who cares if we were puny and smelled like fresh milk? For a few years we played and rocked, even turned the Appalachian soundscape a little brown at the edges. At least at first. Mainly
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"Did I have a dream, or did the dream have me?" - Rush, "Nocturne"
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I threw my hand / at the gearshift/
the car glided off.
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In May of 1982, my daughter and I planned a trip…
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Most everything is white because white means clean and hospitals are supposed to be clean. They wouldn’t let me leave.
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Whenever Mommy was gone, Josh Forcett's father made him eat staples, often by the spoonful.
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At night, I wake up, and Daddy's in the bathroom with a hanger in his mouth....
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I imagined the crystals in my mouth.
Salt flowers blooming on my tongue.
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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.”
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Oh to be young and vigorous.
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I walked around the mountains and the gravel roads that once were my home. The rain made tiny rivers in the clay that ran hard and fast, and I splashed in them until my feet were saturated and my hair was stuck to my face and in my mouth salty and I cried
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“Too dumb to live,” my wife said when cretins on a motorbike blasted around us nearly taking a side mirror with them.
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We lay in what we have made, minute fleshy bullets in the target we have made.
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the champagne foam cascades like cherry blossom ensnared in the first gales of spring
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I’m in high leather boots; I’m talking many dead cows here and I respect that
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now the days are empty
and time has lost its head
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Only scotch and cheap champagne/
retain their reliable flavors.
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And the ocean was black and green and blue—as your dress that clung to your body’s curve. Round as the bend of the water trailing the false line of the shore.
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At five a family relative took my life away from me and no one cared
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There is an empty space,
between every note in rock 'n' roll,
where they have buried John Bonham,
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One by one our friends are kicking the bucket. Let's get together. It's now or never, we figure.
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What she didn't tell me was that her brother Carl got fried during an electrical storm.
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Coward, cuckold, she taunts: So be it. He's not a young man anymore, nor as clever as he once was, or thought.
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Bert also said that somebody else at the meeting was complaining about his high blood pressure, and Bert repeated what Hank had said, that he was glad to have any blood pressure at all.
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My boyfriend unequivocally believed in the existence of aliens. He was the Mulder to my Scully, though when I said so, he had no idea what I was talking about. I never understood how someone so E.T. obsessed could have missed 'The X-Files'.He would look skyward, eyes…
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Andrew smiled at her while he pulled out his penis. He then held it between his fingers and tugged at it, stretching it much like a rubber band
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Tony sat down in the hotel room with his back against the wall. He had a handsome face, with three-day stubble growing from it, his pupils very large as if frightened by something, or from deep thought. In his hand, was the winning lottery, Periodically he would get up…
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Alicia got to third block early and scribbled down some of the derivatives homework. Others trickled in intermittently, drifting to their seats like impurities getting caught in a filter.
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Today the color of the skyremakes my heart into somethingless willing to break, or to judge,and I am thankful for it. Acolor not unlike walking chestdeep in the ocean and seekingbeautiful clouds and thinking Iwill be back. Dreaming with the sky.Please stop lying to me. A…
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