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I turned a maiden to a witch / and back again
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166800
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That old woman's got to be senile or something. The other day she asked my daughter if I had a "thing about water." Sharon told her I didn't, but then came right in and asked me, "Mother, you got a thing about water?"
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166800
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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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1668108
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166830
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166864
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I pull into the parking lot and see a group of roosters squawking and trying to overturn an ‘87 Pontiac Bonneville that's caught fire. They're pouring whiskey down their throats. They're weeping over a bag of economy sized frozen breast fillets.
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166831
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Nothing is ever hoarded in our house, everything is eaten.
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166800
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Bobby took one out and looked at the date. "July 1965. Does that mean anything to you, Ma? Carla, T.J.?" Bobby handed the paper to my mother. "Why don't you spread it out on the counter to see if you can find something that he might have wanted…
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166800
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Part of me feels like a wounded animal surrounded by hungry cougars. Another part of me feels like being mauled by a cougar might not be that bad. A third part of me wishes he could punch the second part of me in the face.
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166795
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The world doesn'tend just becauseyou want it to.Bonus poems:The Poet(Series 1)by Darryl PricePoet in a TreeYeah, well, it's not up here either. Although the everything and nothing view is nice. Only because it doesn't have any abandoned cars in it. I'm…
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166733
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They look like giant golden raindrops, or flying saucers, or peculiar fish out of their element
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166721
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Ben was in no mood for games. His ribs hurt and his eye was painful. He would have to tell this girl, who had flicked her tongue in his ear and who did not sound like Sophie, to get lost
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166752
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When a multinational big box furniture store opened just off the expressway outside the city selling all the same products at greatly reduced prices, they contemplated the possibility of closing their store.
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166763
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rockstar, moviestar, literary supernova – burning out before all the planets are declassified.
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166721
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166752
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Billie Holiday and I want a cup of coffee and they tell us to go fuck ourselves.
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1667126
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because you pay/
for it to matter to me.
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16671817
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They meant no harm when they flooded farms in its swirls and eddies
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166722
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November 24th-- Subject began to chew the flesh of his forearms. Researchers considered interfering but decided against it because subject was only bleeding slightly.
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166764
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bassackward/in the surreal/bathroom mirror
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166655
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There was a certain romanticism in it, the salty old man sidling up to me at a bar, rhapsodizing in a slurred stream of conscious about the state of the world, the country, the state of his own heart. He didn't have an eye patch nor beard, nor was he…
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166654
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Dear Conrad,
If you cannot control your dog’s barking I’ll rig up a loud speaker facing the general direction of your house, and every time your mutt starts howling at the moon, I’ll start playing “It’s a Small World (After All)” at top volume on the p
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166676
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I read it all wrong. In writing her novel, I thought Marilynne Robinson was writing about twins — writing, in some way, about me. Instead, these characters, Lucille and Ruthie, were standard sisters, one older than the other. In fact, Robinson explains th
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1666106
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People Who Go to Poems for Truth
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1666127
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Mercury and Gemini disappointed.
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166641
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A heart which is alive despite everything in the world that wants to deaden it.
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166696
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The old lady from next door had been really quiet for the last few days.
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166664
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Everybody needs a flaw or two. It builds character.
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1666189
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The Street singer gathers up his coins
and counts to a hundred before
The last string stops vibrating
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1666108
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hookers are better educated these days
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