1551 4 0
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We’re more into the punishment that works its way in through the skin and coats the heart anonymously.
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We are young
That’s all we’ve got
We take drugs
We smoke pot
You got mugged
And I got shot
We are young
That’s all we’ve got
I want you to love me like it’s midnight
Midnight, midnight
Yeah, your mama wants you home
But she knows
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1551 7 6
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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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1551 15 8
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She is too stylish to be crazy, is what the migrant probably thinks. And he's right.
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1551 6 4
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bassackward/in the surreal/bathroom mirror
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1551 3 1
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"seventy five degrees longitude
submerged
in holy rivers
out of my mind emerge
anointed paramahamsas"
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1550 9 5
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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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After lunch I left my office and trickled along like a slow leak, a notch above meandering; gravity had become a lateral force that pulled me forward.
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1550 4 2
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Culloden County, MS - 1989 All Janine knew was the idiot had a gun. As to why he would ever need one was beyond her. He couldn't look dumber holding it, either. He was too small for it, or at least he looked that way to…
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1550 1 0
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Row,
Caps of white,
A salted escape
beneath reflected light.
Brother, remember those old lies?
I’m off to sea to make those things right,
now.
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1550 2 1
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...She smells like Mentholadium all the time which is one of them old lady smells. When I get up there, she says, “I’ll scrub the bee jesus out of you little girl,” and by God, I have a purty good bath that day.
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1550 3 2
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Instead, I get things like,
“Why can’t you find a nice man with cancer or a bum leg?”
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1550 8 5
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When Frank entered Michiko’s apartment, Michiko was not there.
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The phone rings. The oven beeps./
The locomotive whistles and howls.
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1550 6 2
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All I wanted to do was lay in his smell, I had missed him and didn’t know it before now. He got up to urinate at one point and his absence was obscene to me.
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Early Spring, 1075, Northumbria: Judith, too ashamed to speak, too angry to cry, waves her handmaiden away. She wants no food. Wind drives icy rain across the thickness of…
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1549 2 0
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You beckon me with an aperitif.
The Kir Royal tingles, its bubbles tickling my nose.
Its subtle black courant pulls me into your smile.
I drink from your lips the champagne-tingle of your kiss.
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To tell the truth, I can’t complain. Look, lots of people have it tough. I don’t have it tough...
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1549 0 0
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Caster had always imagined the Consensus as a big room, as big as the world, filled with white space and people with quantum wings, flitting about, creating information. There were tinted bubbles for people to share for privacy, and the lights never went
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1549 0 0
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I'm a jogger of these parts, but I've yet to discover a dead body, or even dead body parts, or worse yet, discover that my parts will be discovered by some unfortunate jogger.
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1549 3 3
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I am speeding on the highway at 2AM because no one is here...
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1549 2 1
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1549 1 0
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Three teeth. You can pick them out if you hit pause just right. Probably not a person in the entire valley who hasn’t seen that video from the Eastern Cheerleading Finals. They even showed the tape on the eleven o’clock news in Scranton, my face ci
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1549 6 1
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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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1548 12 12
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Not only half-full/
but stress-fractured
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1548 14 11
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Tender bodies sizzle on the grill.
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1548 8 5
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It's all over now, Baby Blue...
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1548 12 10
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1548 4 2
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True facts about Redbeard the communist pirate.
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