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Liszt, Piano Sonata in B minor. I don't like it but I can't stop listening. It doesn't fit my mood, or the high plains landscape, or the early evening, pink and blue, pastel colored sky.
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For the past 6 months our love for each other had been akin to a chess game. We avoided each other’s traps, fortified our defenses, set up gambits of our own, exchanged pieces of our lives, and now it was endgame. Checkmate. Time to move on.
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170200
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He can't breathe can't breathe can't breathe turns the handle can't breathe falls onto the front porch gasping in the cold night air. And Dad is lying on the smoldering carpet in the parlor. And all the kids are upstairs. And he swallows the air. And ever
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170292
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What is the meaning of you?
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170230
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“Jerome always came to play with ideas. It was like he was already thinking about it before we started. I loved his ideas. It caused me to think about it as well. We did variations on a theme and there was always a goal. Sometimes it was to grow and deliv
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1702117
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He got tired of the pool party, the chit-chat, the suburban posturing, and he decided to swim home.
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170200
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Ireland - her beauty is like a drug.
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17021211
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Jesus came strolling
by in his sandally Jesus foot sandals.
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170242
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“I wrote a story about you today.”
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1702127
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Foolish boy, you chose
your parents poorly-
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170220
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A large crowd of students began to gather around the base of the building that housed the administrative offices, where my hearing was being held. The meeting room was up on the second floor.
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17021911
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Today the isobars are far apart.
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170110
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On beach trips with our families,
there were bumper cars, jet skis;
flash enjoyments,
beach-themed distractions.
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170165
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You load the pipe and suck in the fireworks. Whistling missiles, slithering sparks, shivering teases, dripping embers. You fall asleep with flashing neon outside and the Fourth of July in your veins. When you wake up, your room is the saddest place o
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170176
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They broke both of Jimmy's shins. / Gambling debt just like in the movies
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170186
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You lazy fuckwit! You half-assed shithead!
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1701138
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the / future is now incomplete
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170111
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No, I’m not at the junior high bus stop. I’m at the dining room table with my parents.
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170196
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Soon everyone will know what is coming.You cast a spell of heaviness and I crumple, horizontal. Like Aurora, sleep is my destiny.Tantalus in reverse, my curse from food forever I will flee, while everything changes;discomfort and…
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170121
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“We’re on our way to gold country to find the American Dream.” No point in mentioning the huge prairie dogs, the ones swarming and screeching beneath the horses in their Hell’s Angel gear and Nixon masks.
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1701148
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...painted by my mother with meticulous attention...
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170120
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Joseph K. ran a publishing house in the shadow of the Castle.
Perhaps “publishing house” is too grand a title. Joseph K. kept a battery of six or seven (depending on repairs) manual typewriters, a crate of carbon paper, and a large stapling machine
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1701109
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Cinema Verite’ is the best book of poems I have encountered since Matthea Harvey’s Modern Life
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17001810
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I’ve blown out my shag haircut
and it’s big.
BIG-big.
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170072
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A man asleep on a stack of tires in front of a tire shop on 10th Aveune, NYC.
A store that’s “open 25 hrs,” where apparently time is being manufactured.
The unknown new element, the 25th hour, even though the other 24 may have been shortened som
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170023
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Where in the shadows of these raw streets
does love last longer than a flyer?
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170055
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He ran for home, screaming for help in the silent ravine.
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170042
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I met a girl so sweet, So sweet that she could Break your heart No girl, no one should Be so sweet So sweet that she melts My depression Increase my anxiety No one should be so sweet More like a little girl Than her 25 years If…
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Revocable Love It was easy lying there with My head on her left breast Listening to the strong Business-like beating of Her heart. She looked down and said Quietly, I told you my love Was revocable. I give it To many men and then I take It back. …
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