1644 12 8
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I was hope, and
you were what I can only call
consolation, as day after day you
remained a grief in my throat.
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164400
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This is the most frustrating kind of amnesia.
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164495
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The instant you remember
gratitude
with enough focus to spring free its power...
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164400
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From Berlin to Arcturus. I squeeze Sevigny’s wrist, wish Izzy could be here, but she’s melting salt in Utah. We were on our way to Los Angeles. I’ve booked the horror room.
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164354
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Facebook just hit me with an ad for coping with memory loss, probably because I just turned 63. As far as my favorite social media site is concerned, I am now an Old Lady. When I asked my Facebook pals who are also Seniors what kind of promotions have been turning up…
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164374
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we're not at war / with the world. We have papers.
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164362
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It was only two days before Christmas. Jonathan remembered his mother crying.
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164320
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With a roar and short burst of flame, the dragon awoke, startled.
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164377
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I wondered if Mr. Slane even knew/
how many dogs he owned
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164364
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Everybody needs a flaw or two. It builds character.
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16431010
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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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164342
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Charles the Bold is holding a pen.
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164300
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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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164331
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Nothing is ever hoarded in our house, everything is eaten.
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164331
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“Let me in,” I begged.
“No. Get back stinky feet.”
“I washed them.”
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16431211
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After my vasectomy, I got a T-shirt with a picture of an orange on it. It said "All Juice, No Seeds."
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1643107
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I wander toward the midnight dock
a neon sine curve stabs my eyes
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164211
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It’s last call for the Class of 2001, their five-year reunion drawing to a close, and Brenner, in his standard t-shirt and holey jeans, has just arrived.
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164240
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She wakes up sad. She can't shit. She spreads out the foil. no creases. folds it in half. She puts the stuff in the crease. holds a lighter under it. A zippo. then smokes it. Well smokes the smoke. It's like kissing god or the…
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164255
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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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164273
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I did do one nice thing for you
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164230
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16421410
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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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164244
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* Dedicated to Bernie MaddoffThere was a long line at the men's room.You know,when men reach a certain age,there is an urgencyto their frequent trips.So I saw an opportunityI said:" I know Bernie I can get you in.""Really?," they saidbut I played it coy"It ain't easyBernie…
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164200
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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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164221
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Now you are a raving bare-forked fool madman with nothing.
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164200
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She didn’t think of herself as an undesirable, no, she didn’t, but did find herself cowering in face of the presumed judgment of those around her. They had more money, more clout, more everything.
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164133
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I can't take it bird by bird because I have neither.
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164132
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How long have you been waiting for me? How long?
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164163
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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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