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I don’t know what to do with all this money flowing from my books.
It’s burning a hole in my literary pocket.
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160986
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You left for the glittery wild of West Hollywood. I guess L.A.'s off-limits now. My heart goes fucking tachy when I drive over Kellogg Hill past Forest Lawn and see the skyline glowing through the rainbow haze of sunset. You're out there, out in the…
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160910
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If you work with the public, you're stressed. Unreasonable customers. Demanding bosses. Reduced staffing. I love my job, but the workload is tough and getting tougher. What can we do to keep our spirits up?Play Customer Appreciation! It's simple. Assign a point value…
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160943
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. . . the empiricism of the mechanical had wound tight into her, lessons her few calendars could never impart without aid from sundials, hourglasses, clocks.
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160981
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The thing Bentley remembered most about her was she had no body odor. None.
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1609106
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There were only six passengers aboard the small ferry...
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160940
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The way each intersection in a city where you’ve lived a while becomes layered with personal archeology.
The cafe that replaced a liquor store you avoided, and the friend (or lover) you broke up with there,
and the way on the day of the big fire you
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1609108
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My sister / craves raisons
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160996
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Scientists have discovered what I already did once on dope
way back in the Sixties.
There are so many other earths out there
that they are almost infinite.
Now in our other lives we have to
shuttle from planet to planet
reading our poems. And
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1609157
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Mark Reep is a faded Polaroid oracle taped to the only unbroken window of an abandoned house in Ithaca NY.
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160912
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she shivered in the ceasefire like a virginal nude brought to life.
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160854
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Cornelius van Linjpleel discovered and excavated for himself a lone Etruscan tomb not far from Populonia in 1898.
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160865
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faith in gravity/permitted them to extol/the guillotine's blade.
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1608103
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Palms planted firmly against his temples, Travis paced the room like a caged animal. Giant black bats screeched in his brain, their pointy wings scraping at the edges of his cranium.
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1608126
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My ChurchThe white dressThe bridesmaidsThe friends, the familySadnessMy church knewno music
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1608119
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The universe extracts no retribution./
It annihilates without a thought/
of evil/good, sin/virtue.
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160874
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Everybody breaks.
Everything splinters.
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160811
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160800
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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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160820
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The sighs of the nearby shore came to me through an open window.Wave after gentle wave caressed her broad, sand crusted skin. Mesmerized, I lay still.The in out sound of breathing now filled the room.Your warmth enveloping me like the satin…
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160854
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This is why the earth revolves around the sun: refrigerator magnets.
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160843
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Auto and the Grease-Pits
Sugar Cube
Full Frontal
The Holy Grill
Crazy Al and the Squirrels
Talk Is Cheap
Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Cold Zippers
Destiny Howl
Epiphany Critter
Cold Kneecaps
Crepes
Pulled Pork
Baby Seals and the Club
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160851
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There was a knock at the front door of Apartment Number 9. Ace Quana tried to beat his wiener dog, Little Ace to the door, but he could not. For while Little Ace had stubby legs like wet…
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160811
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empty wine bottles, and a single abandoned boot
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1608105
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addict for validation and cat tongues
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160722
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Snakes have no eyelids, no hips, no lobby in Washington (some creatures do!) and little support at home.
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160722
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From my place, down here amongst the earth, we have many names for you.
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160785
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—Mazel tov, schmazel tov!
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1607127
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Mercury and Gemini disappointed.
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