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The Intrepid Explorer recounts his travels for the benefit of subscribers to the Magazine of the Museum of Everything
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124177
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If something hurts enough/
you never forget it. Like the//
toothache when you first learned
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124185
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124122
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November 24th-- Subject began to chew the flesh of his forearms. Researchers considered interfering but decided against it because subject was only bleeding slightly.
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124121
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The Mojave Desert remembers Ron Paul
With tattered billboards
Scraped and clawed by vehement dust
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124195
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124173
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Oh I'm melting all right, into a foul vapor rising from a dead volcano, not even able to spit fire, but only cold old frozen rock like dribbles of putrid plasma.
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124154
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But I don't see the cabinets, or know how to put the 4 chapters he's talking about today into the drawers that are invisible, floating, above his bed he's been in for a year, me sitting next to him, becoming a spinster.
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124164
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I wrote this piece after I told the originator of the youtube video "Mieders Alpine Coaster" by David Jellis how I felt watching it.
I admitted I was a voyeur not a participant, but that his video fascinated me to the point that I needed to write ab
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1241219
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Polite society will cheer/
as another body is discovered//
and disposed of. The cheers/
will drown out the gasps
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124011
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It was two days to town. His horse could only go one.
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124031
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“That’s just Ryan W. Bradley—son of a bitch knows better by now.”
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124011
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away into a gale then
sleet he gurgled with
eddie the pike till
he yearned and
twirled the oracle
of spider gloss
till he slipped
alone into the sky
to find her in a violet
rain they splat together
back to back on the rail
in the rumbling tumbl
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12402014
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I become the accumulation/
of appetites
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124042
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Stars fat as the stars that Van Gogh painted on his easel in Arles, a ring of candles burning on the brim of his hat. Stars that fill the night with delirium.
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124032
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[YOU BETTER BE READY FOR THIS!]
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12401110
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Paris is a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
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124020
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I couldn't think of anything that rhymed with "unibrow" except Tsing Tao, which is a brand of Chinese beer....
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12401110
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That won’t kill me, will it? I asked. Maybe, the doctor said.
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124000
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The eyelid of the sink blinks silence. The clocks choke on smoke.
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Except with the language I was born to./
Occasionally, with painters and collagists-//
dead now, typically- who can’t voice/
opposition to my misappropriations.
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124022
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Marion had decided to stop whenever she came upon Amarillo. It was close to two a.m. when she pulled into the motel parking lot. Momma, read the nametag on the woman at reception. Her face was illuminated by a TV. Her hair curlers were illuminated by the lone desk lamp…
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1240115
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So I told her
think of it this way:
you’re my unlived life.
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124000
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The first apartment Troy and Lynn lived in was managed by an alcoholic former army officer, who lived in the complex with his wife and teenage daughter. He was a lush who didn't do much in the way of management. Lynn had barely noticed him before Troy moved in with her.…
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124032
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“There is no future in art,
you will not change lives
with flowery words.
Please don’t rock the boat”
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124000
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Walking into the living room and next to the tree, he handed his wife Kathy her Minnie and plopped himself on the couch. Their three kids, two girls and the youngest a boy, tore through the wrapping paper like a pack of rabid wolves tearing through a deer
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124043
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The Rapture comes and goes unannounced in carbonated soda bubbles spicing the air.
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124062
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So I lopped off his head and reworked the creation...
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124000
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Danica stared at her hand as she felt he warmth of the wind. She remembered Alysia saying that she felt the wind through the heat.
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