1761 11 7
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On his knees
he divinates diverging lines
with belly laughs he levitates
the rebel spheres into geodes .
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1761 12 8
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I'd laugh, cry, splutter with confusion or outrage. I'd probably say “Duh” a lot, grow pale, flush, and wink at the viewers. I'd furrow my eyebrows, raise one or both, and my eyes would narrow, widen,…
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1761 14 11
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I visited the grave of Rimbaud. / It was pale blue
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1761 2 1
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Miriam forced herself to focus on the kitchen door and on putting one foot in front of the other.
“Is everything alright?” she heard Ada ask the family.
“Of course, everything is fine,” the woman said. “What could be wrong other than the impossible serv
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1761 9 1
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The television volume softens in the shadows.
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1761 19 11
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I'm just a rental dog myself
looking for the guardian of starlight
peeing on the expired parking meters
and barking up all the wrong trees.
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1761 0 1
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And out on that lake that day you yelled “desperation please!”
And I heard “desperate pleas?”
I wondered about first impressions.
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1760 9 9
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Requires one of those leaps.
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1760 20 10
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I invited Van Gogh over for some drinks and a chat. I'm talking about Vincent.
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1760 9 7
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It doesn't have to be force grown betweenus. We entwine naturally. It's agood feeling to have a friend who at oncedoesn't require a hothouse ceiling laidbetween each invisible touch. There's justwind. There's just rain. There's just sun. There's just you.There's just…
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1760 15 6
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It was not that he was boring – it’s just that he needed a lot of encouragement. When he came, he whispered to himself, ‘ohgodohgodohgod’ - like it was something to be ashamed of, to be sorry for. I wanted to hold him close against me but I also n
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1760 0 0
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"Did I have a dream, or did the dream have me?" - Rush, "Nocturne"
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hoping for a happy outcome/
like a kindly voice on the line
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1760 7 5
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words have their own ancestors,/deeds are commanded by their own lords./
knowledge and thought do not make me understand—/no surprise, then, that I am not understood.
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1760 0 0
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You enter the lobby of the office building tentatively at first - you're a little nervous about this interview, after all - but you recall how spectacular and professional you dressed that morning. Plus you read through the company's LinkedIn profile at least five times…
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1760 0 0
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"Sorry, I need to confirm the results." Sal turned to Paul. "Is it true that you got stood up?"
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1760 14 6
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There are lines//
across time, beyond the tug/
of elections and fashion,/
beyond the turbulence of history
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1760 5 4
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On the television, a round woman sits amongst the mannequins. She wears a headband. She describes some awesome jewelry.
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1760 10 8
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Toxins make a body happy/
as if acceleration toward//
an end of consciousness/
is its own reward.
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published in The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review.
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1760 12 5
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Can’t you do anything right?
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1760 6 6
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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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1759 2 0
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I was thinking everything was OK, until one day I woke up and realized that I was living on an entirely different planet, and you seemed like a complete stranger to me. I was feeling so ashamed of these feelings, that I couldn't even tell you about them. I couldn't…
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I read my book of names. Over and over again. Our name appeared in the newspaper 254,991 times between 1896 and 1944.
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1759 9 8
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Who are all these rough looking people, hanging over me, itching me with their shaggy, grapevine arms? Like twisting, dangling down, painted, cloth Gargoyles on a quickly coming apart, dried up rope? It's always been the same old perch to view from. You wanted to know…
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1759 14 8
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In the gutter, the paper signs turned back to pulp.
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1759 3 2
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Scientists have determined that a tiny freshwater organism known as the "bdelloid rotifer" gave up sex 40 million years ago. And you thought the spark had gone out of your marriage.
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1759 13 6
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I travel over your body with small feet,
reach your heart.
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