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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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169184
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We brought oxygen with us because we knew, everyone knows, there is no air on Mars. Everyone told us this as they waved goodbye back on Earth. Jay's mom even said, “Goodbye, honey, have a nice time and remember, there's no air on Mars. Are you aware of that?”…
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16911916
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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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169143
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Unconsciously she shook her head at her own weakness in coming out to see Wayne when things were in shambles at home. Guilt had beat resolve in the cosmic game of rock paper scissors.
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169110
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"My tits, " she instructed "aren't for public consumption".Everything was actually muffled and my ears began to bleed because of how progressively louder the thumping was in the center of my chest. Stacy decided to emphasize her point of disliking the objectification…
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169165
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So few dreams are the doors they seem.
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169175
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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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1691104
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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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16911212
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a poem about things exploding/burning down/scattering for miles.
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1691167
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It's time, more than anything
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169174
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I don’t want to debate polemics while I’m sweaty and naked. I just want my hair cut.
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169144
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I considered kissing Christian. It wouldn’t be terrible. I mean, it might be terrible, but it wouldn’t be awful. His teeth were a little crooked but he didn’t smell or anything.
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169197
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a girl with wolves, dogs and a bear
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169087
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a mere forty years/and maybe you become twelve,/maybe sixty-three.
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169076
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In human rights, a man and a woman may marry and bring forth a family. It is a civil right in the U.S. but not a human right (as far as I know) to raise a child singly without the knowledge of the other parent.
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I was seeing the owl lady from time to time when I met Caroline.
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169087
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graves left or graves lost, into silence death sinks:/it's leaving the living that leaves us such pain.
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169063
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"...easier to get milk from a male tiger than mercy from him."
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1690126
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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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169051
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Though we came to life as to a school/
We leave without graduating
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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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16901110
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44 miles out
the gauntlet of Red River pines
cast shadows pointing north.
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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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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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1689115
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If I felt like reading a book
then I would read a book
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1689109
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Polylinguists lash me
with tongues I cannot conjugate
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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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