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like the dome of an immense lamp
like blades of grass at the sweep of the scythe
like a line of cliffs against a tempestuous tide
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169086
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remembering Cahokia, a place we rent near the water's edge, for we dare not enter
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169096
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THIS is what happened — the dead went into remission. Dated may 10 2010. Or it could have been some other day. They were going to be restored later. That's what we were being told. The dead were being given stones to mark their remission. They were getting…
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169054
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My old buddy Snoop Dogg saunters into the room, and we go through a handshake routine that takes over ten minutes, ending with double-backflips and some brotherly penis swordplay.
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169075
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Why flash?because the moments, the moments, they pass in flashes of brilliancethat shudder, death glow alightand nothing makes sense beyond nowand nothing will help me but meand I am not even enoughnot my thoughts or your nod of assentor even the deep sigh of…
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169021
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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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169055
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if it were a child/ it would be in first grade this year
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16901110
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44 miles out
the gauntlet of Red River pines
cast shadows pointing north.
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16901212
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a poem about things exploding/burning down/scattering for miles.
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169011
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Tension slipped from my grip on the dagger as my legs and faith fell apart.
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169021
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He repeated these six words like a prayer. His only confession.
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169097
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a girl with wolves, dogs and a bear
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169089
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I’m deathly afraid of the pub crawls
of my ancestors, through Bohemia and Fitzrovia
because of the ghosts of alcohol already
etched inside my veins
and the headlong loss of oxygen
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169031
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As a rule, she calls me whenever she’s waiting for her train or bus. ‘Hiya… How’s life-’ she starts off sweetly. Even though I should know better by now, I can only respond in the same old way. I’ll say: ‘Hi Kate!’. Next, I’ll try to te
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169086
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Our afterlife depends upon//
what interesting shape
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169030
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Chapter one I was sitting in the doctor's office. For weeks, my nerves had been on edge, and I had been feeling like he was going to have a nervous breakdown. I needed the help of a professional. It was hard for me to admit this. I was taught that a man handled…
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168963
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"...easier to get milk from a male tiger than mercy from him."
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168981
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The dowdy woman in fart nailed the vim.
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168976
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you might as well be blind
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1689126
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Defy the impulse to grow beyond/
your means and the means of the/
place where you lie at night.
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1689910
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it's time for the cold, antiseptic
cloth to briskly remove the evidence.
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168951
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"Good, it's Link Wray again,"
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168951
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Though we came to life as to a school/
We leave without graduating
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1689167
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It's time, more than anything
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168911
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When we started plans for the party, none of us wanted Larry to die, most of all Larry himself.
Actually, when we first started plans for the party, Larry wasn’t dying.
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1689128
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Trigger warning: casualties of war.
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168970
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[TURN-ONS: willingness. TURN-OFFS: rejection.]
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1688115
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If I felt like reading a book
then I would read a book
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168800
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Sora collapsed on the wall to Azure’s squeals. She felt her arm lifted up and placed around Azure’s shoulder.
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