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Albert Einstein was probably the genius of our age. Joe Biden is a close second, yet Einstein not only had better hair but a keener knack to think of things that no one else could, or would, or would ever want to, since if they did, their brain would shockingly combust in a…
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there is a vault in the mountains / that in itself contains infinite vaults
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Vera Wang I saw you on Oprah today girl. Oh no no no.
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It's 100 degrees in your tower/and that braid you're so proud of/is one hot ladder to nowhere.
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... black holes suck in matter and supernovas explode.
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When the sun was above the treeline, and the hunter returned to the cabin, they were ready for him.
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Biscuits and gravy. I'm off today, I'm lazy.
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Justin comes out of the bathroom, finally erect, his hands glistening with K-Y jelly as he chucks the girlie mag into a corner. “I'm ready.” Through the afternoon's soft-filtered light, Kelly watches him climb on top of her and thinks of…
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The light hurts my eyes, she says.She turns her back to me on the bed, and her shoulder blades shift and jut towards me with aerodynamic lift — nubbin wings so slim, so sharp, so beautiful, they would carry her airborne.She wanted to have our children in this…
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So it's me and two other girls...
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Then dared each other to travel
Much further
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It was always your body that told so much --
lips working some secret out
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My skin tells a story of pain and labor. It’s better than a tattoo and cheaper.
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The next time I woke up there were several guns pointed at me. I opened my eyes to see my mom and dad watching as the local cops arrested me.
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"Now, here daddy was on the back porch at night talking with some man about leaving."
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of placing the rope just so; of settling
the veil with care --
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feeling empty as the
bottom of a bottle
dry as a bone
in death valley alone
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Not believing enough in God he was made unfortunate. Neither cursed nor damned; merely little things. Missing rides, running out of toilet paper, showing up late. Until, suspecting someone he had overlooked, he chose a God. The wrong One it transpired. Things…
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I really only started reading books after the folks left. Right away I thought maybe I should have a system for it, so I go alphabetically by author, one book by one author. The first time around I was reading the books everyone knows, so when I was in th
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He said his wife levitated.
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He huddles against the wooden beam of a chop suey stand, glaring out into the giant technological organism that was his city. Lights, hulking monstrosities and endless possibilities were teeming in the night-hustle that surrounded him.
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The strawberries remind me of you,Fat and fleshy,Pimple-dimpled.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Of course then I did it all over again. Got married, that is. Fortunately, this one worked out.
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Holy shit, man, look at that!” Mike's pimply face melts into drooling bliss. His dad had stopped in this whacko town on the way to our campsite, muttered something about angry lesbians, and disappeared. Rick and I follow Mike's dumbstruck gaze to a shop…
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The bones are chilled now, past/
invigorations of the coming spring//
and its entanglements
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If you wanted to retain the ownership of said works, then you should not have died.
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If I saw a little old man out there, a fellow with a hunched up back, I shouldn't be afraid.
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...I had a string of Sunday School medals that knighted me a warrior for Jesus Christ of Nazareth...
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We got Bob Dylan on the wall
wriggling from the lack of music
and light among the spheres
A great doubt has been raised
and can be seen from far, far away
for they are even afraid now in heaven
that things can’t be going right
and to
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No one writes epics anymore. Why? Perhaps it's because we no longer share mythologies. Once there was a shepherd, and now there is a Google bus loaded with pricks. Yes, you say, but they are good at math. Each and every one of them. And this is true. I envy them…
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