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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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When Uncle Dan got sent to the Alzheimer's ward, the ladies licked their lips. Fresh meat.
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The Snowman grinned malevolently as the Sugar Plum fairies shook in their tiny powdered boots."Santa has one more hour and then you're all marshmallow toasts!" the Snowman said. He laughed and he laughed. His evil plan? He wanted the key to time delivered to him personally…
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This wasn't going to be about her anymore.She tied her strong purple balloon to the neck of the wounded horse. Her skirt and her top felt like armor's breath. The tingle across her scalp felt warm. Small rug scrapes that made her think of her last dog, before she died.This…
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He begins talking about string theory. He reels me back in, from the dinosaurs to the infinite, human evolution and alternate dimensions, until it makes so little sense that everything makes sense.
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"Some Purgatory in order, innit?"
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The gaudy belt buckle I got you, which would have been well-received except that you hate gaudy belt buckles.The custom t-shirt I made for you using iron-on felt letters that generously enhanced the shape of your breasts in a way unfit for public display.The wedding…
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a poem about things exploding/burning down/scattering for miles.
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Soon, out of the womb ‘down there' is nuance. It guides you, like a legality, like your own breathing, in and out of overtone, hardcore hodgepodges, those inklings near sacrosanct beyond breakfront negligees and neo-negligence leading the good life. Isn't it…
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She’s not coming today. She didn’t come yesterday either.
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The shop is swarming with little women.
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It might not seem easy to breathe any love into a name like Father. It’s a stiff word—it’s not soft, like, say, Papa—but sometimes you have to breathe love into names you don’t choose.
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Morning's first blush, their world in repose. Sated, drained, spent; …
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When the malady struck and the world fell dark at noon, she and I groped the walls and found our front door. Outside, bewildered, we heard the whine of jets in free-fall, explosions in the imagined distance. And we heard a car — or was it a truck that veered…
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Out the window we could see the parking lot and, across the street, the Bijou Moonlight Laundromat.
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This guy struts and never walks, and while doing so he reads and sends text messages and emails from his smart phone and so never walks in a straight line.
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Once, when he had been married for a year, she sent him a card which said, "If you have seen a cat smoke a pipe, you have got it made." There was an illustration of a big, black panther, standing up on its hind legs, smoking what looked like a big tub of
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I am reintroducing myself.
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A customary phone call from home. What are you doing she says? Playing football I retort – what else. The usual sigh and a faint giggle followed. Much unlike how it backfired back in the late 20’s and we were going to make it the reason to break up! The p
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Not to sound too ridiculous, but Hurt was giving me the hurt, and it felt good.
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Zorro lived in his mother’s basement until he could get back on his feet.
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Perhaps nothing has never existed;/
perhaps something always has
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fetal position can make a man seem small. harmless. like the child your womb won't carry...
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“It’s a sad thing,” I said, “when a man has to suffer just for getting a little on the side.”
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“I'm thinking about math class,” she said. “The solution to three factorial.”
“Easy,” Leo said.
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in the deep dark of
a 2 a.m. atmosphere
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This year we have no need of spring!
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Today’s new YouTube kitten;
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