1501 9 5
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I fear my personal information travels the World Wide Web/
and mad Ukrainians will steal my name and wealth./
I fear the fiscal cliff and raising the ceiling on national debt./
I fear a death by taxes.
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1501 2 2
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He was just walking along, making sure that no white, Hispanic, Native American or Asian people were doing anything illegal when he noticed the young black man walking down the street.
He hadn't meant to.
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1501 19 8
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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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1501 7 5
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He plucks the feathers and winds thread to simulate an insect’s torso.
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1501 4 1
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threads of Cocoa Krispies
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1501 4 3
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Many years ago I visited a nude beach. I undressed at the car and walked with my companions onto a California beach as naked as the day we were born.
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1501 8 5
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The army was bulldozing grandmother's house.
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1501 6 3
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—Frank, how is your sex life?
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1500 3 3
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I can't take it bird by bird because I have neither.
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1500 1 1
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Published in Exquisite CorpseI…
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1500 8 4
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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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1500 16 12
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She was as beautiful as flowers in a dream
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1500 9 5
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A spire
that had stood one hundred and forty years
fell in
a single second of the blackest day.
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1500 9 5
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My body feels chilly but it's not from the outside temps. It seems to me it's the opposite of a fever.
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1500 5 5
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This story is falling head-first into a mud-puddle.
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1500 2 1
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...She smells like Mentholadium all the time which is one of them old lady smells. When I get up there, she says, “I’ll scrub the bee jesus out of you little girl,” and by God, I have a purty good bath that day.
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1500 9 6
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Listen to him barking in the night. Fear shifts on the bed next to you, hogging the covers. Stare at the ceiling and wonder what to do. Forget his birthday. Forget he is forty-two. Forget the phone call from Berkeley twenty-one years…
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1500 4 0
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The way each intersection in a city where you’ve lived a while becomes layered with personal archeology.
The cafe that replaced a liquor store you avoided, and the friend (or lover) you broke up with there,
and the way on the day of the big fire you
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1500 11 4
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The flash of love was real, the life within her was real, and the main thing now was to climb.
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1500 0 0
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"Look at the grime on those curtains. Not fit for an Emperor. Pull them down. Put up fresh new ones. Not a spot."
"Oh! Look at this throne. All uneven legs. The gems are not shining. The gold looks dull. Fix it, fix it, fix it!"
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1500 8 6
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in late fall, Rome, sans wind, sans rancor,
sans sand or rain, sans hate ...
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1500 10 5
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moonbeams unrecognized language
steadies my course
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1500 3 2
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...Heroin. It helped them get through the tricks and sucked up their flesh.
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1499 7 4
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They found it naught however as it was lost at metro stops, canceled appointments and in ever dimming light that failed to reflect what was instead of what could have been.
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1499 7 6
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—indistinct and foggy, my eyes lost at sea,
confined to a horizon not close to land.
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1499 3 3
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Trisha dreamed of being a Playboy Bunny since the days she still had buck-teeth and fried egg boobs. She blu-tacked page threes above her bed-head and had me snap topless Polaroids till they littered the floor. She told me to imagine she had 36DDs and per
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1499 0 0
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That was the summer that Christine Nelson owned me.
It felt like catching the flu. I had it bad. I was about to turn seven, and it was my first time, and it was bad. A love like that, I don’t know, it’s not a love supreme. It wasn’t completely cru
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1499 8 4
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It’s just that—well, I don’t know how to put this—
With a Dadaist poet a non-affair is the height of erotic bliss.
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1499 3 1
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"do you know what your problem is when it comes to girls?"
she must mean other than the fact that they're all
completely insane. or at least all the ones i've dated.
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1499 4 4
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My father's cousin is Salem the Dead.
Famed, an infant Lazarus of Libya,
he was brought lifeless from the womb,
yet awoke to the chill of a mortuary slab.
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