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Except for the bathroom stalls—you know the one that goes “Here I sit all broken-hearted”—the only poetry in the house is composed by Hazel, recited to her fawning sycophants.
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It doesn't take a genius to figure how he sank, in the drink, like Jeff Buckley. Like a stone.
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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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awoke in confusion, fear and hurt never seen before that day a year past
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160500
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"One-upmanship" is a strategy for defeating an opponent somewhat unfairly without actually cheating.
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1605198
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A proper study of human history should
lead the student to an inescapable desire
to commit suicide
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He plucks the feathers and winds thread to simulate an insect’s torso.
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160510
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I was shooting baskets in the driveway when the Mexican kid delivered the groceries. He drove in fast and loud . . .
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160500
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In order to be a catalyst for catharsis — which is just a fancy way of saying agent of change — you have to be willing to condition yourself into something partially inhuman. Only something on the very outskirts of humanity…
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160400
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I figure maybe I’m mostly alone; they are all running down staircases or falling down fire escapes, some of them naked, some of them with towels, mostly probably naked though.
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remembering Cahokia, a place we rent near the water's edge, for we dare not enter
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160474
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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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awfully evil decisions upstairs in your head that could come back to haunt you in your later years;I'm here to report your zooming about hair isn't really one of them. You have found the infernal wheel works in all four directions at once. Good for you.…
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She stood there with her back to me and her dress around her ankles.
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We sat in silence, the entire train, the few other passengers in anxious wait to see if I would change my mind. We all flipped pages, glanced up at each other, looked away when noticed.
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160441
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A heart which is alive despite everything in the world that wants to deaden it.
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You were gone, long gone, and I could no longer smell your scent as I walked through the empty house. I couldn't bring myself to unpack the boxes, and they lurked like a forest of overgrown drab Legos.
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Can we survive our Y chromosome?
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He liked to take pictures of her, and she liked to pose. It made her horny, she said.
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The trees would answer with a creak and a crackle.
Fall was near, a rotten apple.
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as distant lights
all must shiver
before joining in
a Milky Way river
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I was ashamed of my conscience.
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Directions: Match the stanza to the Beat icon:
A. William S. Burroughs
B. Peter Orlovsky
C. Jack Kerouac
D. Carl Solomon
E. Allen Ginsberg
F. Neal Cassidy
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A figure left the building.
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A pinprick breaks the black/
and pins the spin of constellations/
around its still point.
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160387
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tumbling for you from afar as close-up. They will rewrite your dancing form like a proper magical spell on all their maddest days, using the branches of cherished trees dipped into the trapped wells of certain hosts of …
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160312
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An yet we are all inmates...
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160311
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Roanne hungered. Memory had ruled her forever. Shards really, edged like machetes: daddy, whose fingers had eyes in the dark. Momma, ensconced in the shadows. Inside the church, those pairs of short…
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How hard it is to pretend to be someone else. Alone, together, in the silence... I thought about how you must really like me to act quite like that. I wanted to hold your hand and read the unsent love letters.
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