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Nothing is ever hoarded in our house, everything is eaten.
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I. he leans his messy head against the walland contemplates his wild mistakeshe discovers a nest of red spidersoutside his rotting basement doorhe watches television in his socksand…
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164261
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I do not know what zinzins is, what a zinzins is, who zinzins is.
I do not want to know
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164155
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Once the limits of human commitment to logic are conceded, cuttlefish may in fact be deemed superior logicians to all other aspirants.
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164184
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God had decided to resign. Not even two weeks notice. He just resigned. Point blank.
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164162
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It was only two days before Christmas. Jonathan remembered his mother crying.
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164177
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I wondered if Mr. Slane even knew/
how many dogs he owned
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164144
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My flash kept going off. The museum officials are strict about such matters. Sans flash! Sans flash, Monsieur!
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164164
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Everybody needs a flaw or two. It builds character.
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not of time, but of all the clocks/
that tick along toward the end/
of all the possibilities.
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He reached into the bag on the table and pulled out a ten inch record, sleeved in brown paper, with a circle cut out to display the label information. He handled it delicately, like a fresh egg.
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16411410
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In those years,
you and I were told to leap
for a world suffused with sound
and industry.
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164143
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The songs that she used to sing to him still dance in his head while he wrangles equations. The stars in the cosmos spell out her name.
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164100
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This is the most frustrating kind of amnesia.
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“Not all the birds are to be trusted, and there are other spies more evil than they are.” —J.R.R.Tolkien This may well be our own about time, time to walk out that comfortable front door forever into danger. Nothing will ever…
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164033
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I can't take it bird by bird because I have neither.
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164082
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Marge bought the rug on-line.
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164063
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My poems have appeared in four different publications; three have died shortly after they ran my stuff. Coincidence, or something more sinister?
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164032
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I cut myself. Often. The bloodslice like thin lips parted/in prayer.
life’s color drained to ashen/as the old world spins, pirouettes/like a circus dog on the back/of a galloping horse.
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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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164076
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I keep attempting to start a correspondence with people / but they end up not being interested in me, / either that or I scare them away / because I usually begin with: / “Well, my favorite philosopher is Hegel..."
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16402114
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I don't believe in symbols
but there's a hole
in my living room window
in the shape of a bird
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164000
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Like some beautiful yet macabre puppet, she was suspended on strings of wire, painstakingly threaded tubing flowing into her cavities, through her chambers, around her mechanics.
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unwrapping
the gauze from her wrists....
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Underwater your eyes collapseand your feet touch decayed leavesand soft sand at the lake's bottom, the texture of tenderized flesh,maybe an intestineYou spring to the surface tofind your skull met by waterflies, and their limbstweak your peaceOn the shore your…
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Write power
like a purring kitten
eyes wide
without an idea of exactly
how small he is.
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163974
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we're not at war / with the world. We have papers.
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163900
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The Kid, The Executive, The Doctor, and The Actress.
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I dragged you that last half mile Me such a slip of a thing, one bite mark visible You the bear, your growl now only audible When you furred from kerb to road to kerb The December snow followed us Dragging Christmas red behind you As I ignored my…
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