1720 8 6
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My wife tells me/your dog has vomited/
on the carpet AGAIN!
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1720167
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It's time, more than anything
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172077
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fuck you Charles Bukowski
go cry in your eggs in a Jersey diner
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1720128
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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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172042
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One summer night, as I walked alone down the cracked sidewalk of Kentucky underneath a canopy of maples where the moonlight fell through branches and lit my path with uneven lines I wondered: where does the residue of lust and desire go when everything you want to…
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1720148
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Yes, he'll be quiet. Very quiet. He rocks himself, the ark, suddenly imagining water underneath him, over head, all around. Water, water, water—
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17201211
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171933
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two roses her eyes
aqua-blue
no, blue-green
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171963
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Morning's first blush, their world in repose. Sated, drained, spent; …
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171981
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The dowdy woman in fart nailed the vim.
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171966
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some days are
minotaur shit on your tongue/
smokestacks dumping acid rain on your already thinning hair
your eyelashes pinned in upside down, backward/you give wrong shaving directions to the mirror
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171988
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Light slunk in from under a door, but just a sliver.
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17192011
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The nearsighted world/
puts on its lenses
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1719105
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as I imagine only you canyou're the ocean on fire before anyone else hasbroken that ancient seal, or simply taken the first icy plunge.You can eatall the bitterfruit there is, but that stilldoesn't make theworld a more hatefulplace. Only people…
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171944
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It was like watching one of those vintage eighteen-frames-per-second films of someone trying to open a stuck umbrella.
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171965
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go ahead
stick one more morsel
into that piehole
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171900
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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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171951
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And suddenly, I have this crazy impulse, so crazy and so puzzling I do not possess enough vocabulary and grammar skills to describe what is invisible and what is visible about it. The reader must excuse me and be attentive.
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1718115
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If I felt like reading a book
then I would read a book
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17181911
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Girl with glasses and
skinny fingers
playing with wires
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171851
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His shirt, striped, fuzzy, is of fabric like velour and wreaks havoc with sunlight. His seat faces the aisle, I am sitting forward-faced across the aisle, we are on a half-full city bus, this afternoon.It is a funny shirt so I smile. I am not smiling because of…
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17181916
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severe snow storm coming. I'm looking for a parking spot and listening to Machito & Charlie Parker
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171811
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After years of unsustainable binge spending and a global economic semi-meltdown, most people have had to cut back on their expenses. Many folks are struggling to make do in this new and bewildering economy and we are all learning to live on our means, rather than beyond…
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171876
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Where horses once were tethered grows their grass . . .
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171831
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171843
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Prabo was late.
It wasn’t like him, I thought, sitting on the steps of the Galle Face Hotel, the Indian Ocean pounding the beach abutting the nearby Galle Face Green and spraying fine mist everywhere. Or at least it didn’t seem like him.
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1718148
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Little tech puppies, well compensated for code/
that outsourced laborers will realize in supercheap,/
superchipped gewgaws, sip artisan beers
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171851
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Though we came to life as to a school/
We leave without graduating
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171821
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Ug seemed kinda down in the dumps so, uncharacteristically for a male hominid, I asked him why he looked so glum.
“Ug no find nice girl,” he said, poking a stick in the dirt.
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1718104
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I do this when I think of you. Today we took the first steps towards you're never here.
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