1715 7 6
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you might as well be blind
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171577
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We are/no more than heartbeats on repeat.
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171575
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If the Titanic rises from the bottom of the sea,
I will meet you on deck, in a deck chair.
Fully dressed for a change.
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171541
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The strawberries remind me of you,Fat and fleshy,Pimple-dimpled.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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171511
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Tension slipped from my grip on the dagger as my legs and faith fell apart.
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171565
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The heart attack felt like the time Alison stabbed me with knitting needles. It made me want to see her. She was the fun wife, the first of three. I was morbid and full of regret — my drinking had driven them away, no kids in the wake. I decided to visit all of…
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171533
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1714107
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171474
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God damn you women get me all /
twisted up thinking oohrahrah and lala
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171484
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(the vast preponderance of dark matter and dark energy discernible in these latter days begins to suggest just how dark the humor of existence is) . . .
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171453
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For reasons he couldn't fathom, his motorcycle only moved in reverse. He engaged the engine and lurched backward hard. He called a friend, a gear-head with perpetually dirty nails, asked him to look it over.
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171474
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I was just sitting in the corner, stirring my stories with a straw that sucked characters out of bars.
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171465
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She stood there with her back to me and her dress around her ankles.
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17141210
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The kid with a testosterone chip
Instead of a brain
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171443
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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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171483
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the sound of ashes/ being poured in the kitchen
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171454
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I said, “That bird is hungry.”
The sparrow was eying both of us
At our separate outside café tables
As it hopped around looking for crumbs.
Then it would look up at us
Expectantly.
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17141811
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For a few/
vivid weeks, deciduous shrubs and trees/
will seem to glow like flames and embers
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171475
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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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171422
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171474
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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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171440
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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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171484
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I remember having a beer once
And feeling like a minor god
And I know in some lie you told
Your life began making sense
And I also know that the mind likes logic
But the heart loves chaos
I just hope flies land on the butter of your soul
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1714137
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Can we survive our Y chromosome?
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171465
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In your mouth is the attic studio
Where your father’s brushes lie wet with water
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1713127
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In time, I will forgethow he said "smooshie" for "smoothie"and "eyebrowns" for "eyebrows,"how his upper lip dimpled when he laughedin that uproarious, wild toddler way.How he wheedled to be wrapped and rocked,after a bath, even at age five,his long calves uncovered by…
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171355
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I keep my love for you in me, /
like the egg of a worm,
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1713108
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I bit her ear and /
it was burnt toast
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1713109
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Doofus
National Puppet Radio
Total Bogascity
Sex Cowards
Mein Kampfire
Boner
Hyperventilate
Sewer Video Rats
Psychic Umbrella
Fire Your Psychic!
Tender Brisket
Megatrouser
Puzzlement
University Housecoats
Fuchsia
Big Ass Dawn
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1713116
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A pinprick breaks the black/
and pins the spin of constellations/
around its still point.
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