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If he had not just decapitated a chicken, he was a man I could have loved.
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180421
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...something darkly malevolent looming above him...
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180476
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there is a vault in the mountains / that in itself contains infinite vaults
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180476
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I ain’t your kissing cousin
That’s pretty plain to see
Baby, keep your pretty lips
Far away from me
I ain’t your kissing cousin
That’s pretty plain to see
You’re really very pretty
Come kiss me and we’ll see
We don’t live in a barnyard
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18042015
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Falling Water almost fell./
12 million dollars later//
it will splay itself a little longer
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1804910
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She always wore a little smile. When she took off her robe, the class grew quiet.
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180477
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They stand together in the doorway looking at the crib.
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180466
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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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180410
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He lost his patience and began ranting and raving, angry that he had to come home every night and feel like he was being smothered by a pillow. “I can’t make it stop,” she said. “I can’t make myself stop feeling this way.”
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18031310
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Uncounted hens and piglets/
die at my demand. The killing floor//
runs red for me. I am/
monstrous to creatures small and great,
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180388
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I scratch a red welt onto the inside of my white knee. The knee itches like crazy. Pain too, down to my bones. The Congo calls.
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180356
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Just like D-Ray White’s tapping still bounces off the mountains if the right person is listening, Hasil’s hoots and howls are trapped in record wax like a blood-drunk mosquito in amber.
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180356
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in our teens as tough as the cold/we wore denim and flannel with our boots/kicking at whichever wind blew . . .
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180374
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I can take you away, away, away.
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Co-workers have started calling him Jesus, Manson, Foghat, Doobie Brother, hippie, hipster, Grizzly Adams, Dude Lebowski... there’s really no end to it.
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180200
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When you have lived with pain so long, you grow old and the old man inside of you takes over. That’s just the way it is.
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180285
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The strange bones of language
wander the room.
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18021811
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hoping for a happy outcome/
like a kindly voice on the line
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180253
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Smoking is like hooking up with an ex-girlfriend: you know she's bad for you and that it won't work out, but it feels so familiar and comfortable and so easy to slide back into.
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180266
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It was always your body that told so much --
lips working some secret out
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1802105
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As a boy I fished under the Tappan Zee bridge which spans the Hudson River above New York City.
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180265
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The robot may be grabbing onto something so big I'm mistaking it for the countryside, or the sunset. I could just be one cog in an infinite chain of leg-attachment, stretching from the cosmos to the sub-atomic.
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180130
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“He looks funny again,” the twins would say. “Cow looks funny, Mummy.”
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180162
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If you've ever cleaned house because a death is coming,you know it's the same as any other kind of cleaning.Wipe the tables.Pick up the floor.Sweep the crumbs under the carpet.For later.And for the ants.It's different, too.Because you're floating.On caffeine.On muffled…
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18011211
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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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1801106
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strobe lights wash me up and down
and here is the hottest mad dancer of
the early morning black and loaded
rushed into a freeze frame
...Also link to the song "Nope"
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180166
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The real problem with being face blind isn't that you can't recognize faces. It's that people expect you to be able to.
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