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The next day I can’t recall at all, a waste, like the flash of twenty years of my life, faces that pass you like comets in some erogenous unnamed zone of night, but they got me in some isolation room with my wrists in leather restraints.
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Winter makes me reconsider.
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I did do one nice thing for you
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Six months later, she was teaching theology / to refugees from est.
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It was the middle of May when I found out my teacher was screwing my mother.
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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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ABSOLUTELY DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OF ROBOTS!
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hookers are better educated these days
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The following is a true story, or rather it is a true experience from the story of my life. Some say that just because something happens doesn’t really make it “true”.
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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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We cannot love the past...
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The tech turns off the music. The capsule blares. I am in Jurassic Park with Sam Neill. I am Timmy, descending the electrified fence, almost toast. I am Karen Silkwood, a deer in the headlights, then showering off plutonium. A garbage truck is compacting
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They were just boys, the Nazis I mean, young in their twenties, not much older than my brother Cyril.
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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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The man wore a bowler hat and stood on an open patch of grass, with a pyramid-shaped stack of baseballs at his feet.
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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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The leaves were meaningless because they were no longer connected to the trees.
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I turned a maiden to a witch / and back again
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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165311
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There is no cement stronger than the one holding a miserable couple together.
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Can you see the rut? Can you dig your fingers into the flesh?
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Today clouds were dancing on the moon
Moon had a fit but drew in a breath
And let out a sigh
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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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The supervisor, sensing the fear in me, pats my hand and says "Never you mind! This is normal in the tomato. Every few days we rile up, make sauce, and regrow again. Have you ever been in spaghetti sauce before?"
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She took a deep breath. Last night, she said, Who was the woman?
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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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I loved without marriage and the men loved without divorce and we loved a twenty-four-year-old eating and how gracious she shone over a tame bottle of beer.
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Things don't always go to plan. Gem knew what people would have said back then, of course. She wasn't stupid.
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