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A story about convincing people to do things they don't want to do, written entirely in dialogue; originally published by CHEAP POP.
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"You'll be alright! Just pinch your nose!"
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Blend the dog a drink and sit down beside him and draw straws for regrets.
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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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in the deep dark of
a 2 a.m. atmosphere
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155910
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[WARNING: DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 'R XMAS!]
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155885
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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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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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the little crummy salon that churned out little fat women with pinked curly hair
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I would open an eye, waiting for it to absorb the scant light in the room, and I would see her on the far edge of the bed, the topography of her hips now a battlement to keep me at bay.
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"Nothingness had had enough. Nothingness had become militant. It had bought a camouflage jacket. It grew an afro. It burned its bra. Nothingness was pissed, and it wanted its stuff back."
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The phone rings. The oven beeps./
The locomotive whistles and howls.
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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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She is too stylish to be crazy, is what the migrant probably thinks. And he's right.
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Exhausted, weak from the struggle against the personal gift of terrorism delivered by her ex-boyfriend, she died for a few minutes.
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WANTED: a Muse.
Former Special Forces solider turned poet seeking artistic inspiration. Brunettes preferred but blondes will not be turned away; gingers, however, are out of the question. Must have a voice that sounds like money, a self-destructive tem
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They could cram Rob inside the trunk and then drop him somewhere in the dingles.
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He is leaning back against a pillar watching the dancing; a spectator to joy – both planned and spontaneous – that’s unfolding in bodies fourteen and fifteen years old in front of him.
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I was always bi-polar. I didn’t realize it was a mental illness until my divorce lawyer had the court order a psychiatric analysis.
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Later, when she said she'd had miscarriages, I should have put it all together.
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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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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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Tell me everything about yourself, if I could care, I can pretend, let me pretend.
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ABSOLUTELY DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OF ROBOTS!
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Mint upon my palate, I rub sleep infused eyes and crawl under the covers. Oh blessed sleep, please descend upon this body and transverse this fatigue. Eyes closed, bring a wavering blackness upon subtle lids. The conversation begins…
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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His academic nightmare is set in an examination hall, where the student takes a seat at a folding table in the center of the room.
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No twinkle- so, planet, not star./
And bright, so either Venus/
or Jupiter. I’m guessing, Jupiter.
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