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I look down at my free of clothing genitalia and curiously note that the testicles sprout from above my erect penis, and my scrotum is so taut, hard and shriveled as to conjure squished images of a gigantic pink peanut.
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The poet said, ‘I feel the fell of dark, not day.” but day it always is. Bright! Bright!
the city claims its blue salutes; its stopping in mid-sentence at a name where fingers roam a stone.
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Each little token is the world/
as you knew it at each time and place
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When we were young and small we played in the orchard. Mom made apple pies and fried apples, caramel apples and apple sauce, apple cider. Grandma’s apple butter recipe.
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1530115
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I enjoyed the talking part though
rambling on and on for lord knows
why or how
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"For several days thinking they had found a dead man’s boot beside the highway..."
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I don’t remember much about kindergarten.... The teacher’s name was Mrs. Halverson. She was nice.
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Vegas is turning out to be my kind of town. Easy money, free booze, and everyone is too overstimulated to realize I’m broadcasting right into their noggins.
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Usually I’m the only guy in a roomful of women. Some of them are foxy, too.
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Time has wings. They are bright and beautiful, like those of a butterfly. They are delicate wings, and they carry the years away from my decaying mind. I would break those wings if I could, for tomorrow I turn seventy-three, and I grow weary of their ince
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153033
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By February, I had decided,
That you'd tear out my throat every morning
if it meant your favorite song would play from my neck.
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153091
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Literary agents, also editors,
But most assuredly not my creditors,
Someday they won’t mean jack to me—
The people who won’t get back to me.
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153011
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Noah's diagnosis takes several years. A doctor from North Carolina reading his case dubs the condition Bootlegger’s Syndrome.
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Something was changing.
We could sense it in the circling air. A loss of stillness - and we'd been still for so long.
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1530109
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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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153053
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Maybe you, citizen, should be a jerk. Jerks get where they are going. You, citizen, what about you? Handy, dandy, where’s the jerk? Conformists. Sheep. All of you, all of us, boiling out our radiators. Spending our day, our days, our lives in coope
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153000
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"Oh — what is this 'work' thing the philosophers speak of" sort of thing.
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The pristine Hudson's/waters dance in the dark of/the East River's rinse.
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152965
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The clarinet and the accordion are brothers, I see. Big, fat men with curly, klezmer hair.
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152943
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Shadows from a star
Never too close
Never too far
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The whole thing is broken. It's like an egg. I'm not saying this to get you to say something else in the sunny opposite direction of the tattooed scar upon my painted backyard scene. I don't really care. It's only on me. Not on you. I'm glad as…
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I haven’t read many of them, these poets
that they speak of – Whitman and his Leaves
Of Grass, Mary Oliver and her wild life
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152955
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It is said that lovers find lips in the dark through secret brain circuitry.
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152900
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Rosea plays a bohemian plainsong for the cosmonauts among us, while her fuzzy apple hips spit glitter, spin strobes: pink shades of pantyline flicker; lip-licked neon hues scrape strings in B sharp, a gloomy clue.
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152922
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...you should pick a VERY OLD millionaire. Very old, and NOT VERY WELL...
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152900
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At 7:30 that evening my brother knocked on Parker's front door. When I went to let him in, sweat was running off Darrell's head like he'd been hit by a water balloon. The air was absolutely unmoving, and there was the smell of tar from the asphalt in th
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152920
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Contemporary persecution of Christians takes on milder forms of torture like having to explain away something Pat Robertson said, or constantly having to hear about Fred Phelps picketing funerals because he happens to hate homosexuals.
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A Texas man was recently arrested for failing to return a GED study guide to his local public library. He'd kept it out for three years. This is the kind of news story that brings joy to a librarian's heart.The library where I work just installed a…
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I want to tell you things you do not know.
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I picked out a book to read on the airplane. The title was The Function of the Orgasm by Wilhelm Reich.
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