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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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155886
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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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155821
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They could cram Rob inside the trunk and then drop him somewhere in the dingles.
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155700
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"Do you know how long they've waited for you?" Elle asked. "At first, it was every day after school, waiting at the windows. They wouldn't go play with friends because they wanted to be here, in case you returned. Then, they used to believe you would come
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1557106
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People Who Go to Poems for Truth
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155742
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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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155700
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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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155743
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Here’s the keys to the house
Here’s the keys to the car
I’m going out and I don’t care
I’m going out to buy a cigar
Don’t bother locking up after I leave
I’m not coming back anymore
I’m going to drink whiskey out of a jar
Go out and buy
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155700
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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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155732
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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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155785
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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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155765
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in the deep dark of
a 2 a.m. atmosphere
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155786
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If I seemed disappointed after our conversation,
then, for the record, that was never the case.
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1556114
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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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155622
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There's a large tunnel that runs under my house. I can only estimate but it's not deep below the ground and that's what worries me.
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155697
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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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155654
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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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155694
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Later, when she said she'd had miscarriages, I should have put it all together.
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155621
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the little crummy salon that churned out little fat women with pinked curly hair
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155622
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Jason, the obnoxious host, thrusts his microphone against my nose.
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155620
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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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155610
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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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155633
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Tell me everything about yourself, if I could care, I can pretend, let me pretend.
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155633
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I contemplate the words that did not make it; the lost ones. The words deprived of their moment in the sun. These words. These words that are not part of the story.
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155620
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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155621
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155640
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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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155687
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I imagine you in the States,
pushing stacks of work papers and our memories
to the side, sense your enjoyment that
you won’t see the worry of your
behavior reflected in my eyes again.
That you can buy and bang and be
whomever you want,
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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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