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This story is falling head-first into a mud-puddle.
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some days are
minotaur shit on your tongue/
smokestacks dumping acid rain on your already thinning hair
your eyelashes pinned in upside down, backward/you give wrong shaving directions to the mirror
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Who ever saw an open upright pop bottle on the street?
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Zorro lived in his mother’s basement until he could get back on his feet.
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The eyes, luminous and large-
each an infinite bright blue ocean
Wind ruffles feathers
My ego and vanity also/
encourage me not to wear a mask.
An aberration/
that general circumstances/
will remedy, and soon.
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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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The army was bulldozing grandmother's house.
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In the panic following news of my motorcycle crash, my honey fled the house without coat or wallet, and now, nearly midnight, we don’t even have cab fare home.
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His looks were polished like his shoes, his hair as black. No one would have guessed he made his living as a thief.
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Published in Exquisite CorpseI…
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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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forced to submit/
to reasonableness//
and universal healthcare.
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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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After years of unsustainable binge spending and a global economic semi-meltdown, most people have had to cut back on their expenses. Many folks are struggling to make do in this new and bewildering economy and we are all learning to live on our means, rather than beyond…
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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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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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Regime is elected officials ignoring constituents, ignoring protestors, ignoring history
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Lou Reed was sitting in CBGB,
I was sitting on Greenwich Ave. and West 10th street.
I didn't know him then and I didn't know him later either,
but we were both there.
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Charles the Bold is holding a pen.
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A Nocturne, whose grey mana seeped out of it mouth, grabbed the roof of the building with its large claws. Using it as leverage, it stood itself up, hunched over, its long whale like head roared like a loud horn.
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The nearsighted world/
puts on its lenses
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He plucks the feathers and winds thread to simulate an insect’s torso.
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The waves assisted in pushing him forward, until he reached the dry sand. He saw a small resort town ahead. The lights were out in the businesses and homes.
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I took a lover on Ibiza either because he was clean-smelling or because he had a hotel room and there were none to be had.
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moonbeams unrecognized language
steadies my course
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“There goes that slut Kerri Stanton,” the immense woman behind the counter chuckled to her patron. “Who the hell does she think she is?”
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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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If I should wake/
before I die,/
just shoot me through/
the one good eye.
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She was as beautiful as flowers in a dream
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