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Infinite patience, tempered glass hearts—is this what it takes? /
Shatterproof backtrack, slow march through reversals—too, what it takes.
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162132
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It's a tunnel, you know, like the neck of a bottle, the tunnel the hair comes up, it's coming out soon, I'm an adolescent now, dammit.
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162121
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This morning as I stepped out of the shower I was hit with a panicked fit in which it became urgent that I rid my flesh of each drop of water that burdened it. Not quite like the feeling of being…
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1621149
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Endurance wears the soul thin.//
The hour to succumb ticks ever closer.
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162184
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You don't want to knowthe details of my lifethe gossipthe boring moments strung togetheracross the lap ofmy sense of responsibilityit drives methrough the daysdoing this and thatchore, check on the listi am tired and need to stop for a drinkand then, i am filled up for a…
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162183
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I was talking to this famous female artist
at the reception, (as if I knew anything,)
“If you want to be taken as a serious artist now,
you have to have one long serious eyebrow.”
There was no reaction. So, I said:
“Also, you should kn
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162177
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They say that inside the veins of every Bohemian
lies an entire army of dead alcoholics.
I suppose this is true of me too.
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16211210
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When his wife left him, a friend told him that resentments were like canceled checks. You weren't going to get your money back.
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162186
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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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Eat me so I can sink in your mouth, my paper fraying along the sharp topography of your tongue, lodging in the holes where your teeth used to be. There, I will storm an infection until your mouth inks my words.
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162087
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there’s more to life than poontang
but not when you’re sixteen and
your hands are full of heavy breasts
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162011
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It was two days to town. His horse could only go one.
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1620149
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Pain is the saddle which rides me
Pain is the cowboy's gun
More morphing, please!
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162064
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It was entirely my fault, misreading signals. I have a clumsy imagination, mistook your gushing about my boobs as a soul connection. Then you said something about us being lovers in a past life, and I remembered Bobby Bubion from high school, his strategy for…
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162000
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Everyone kept up with Nemo until the scent led them to the edge of the city. The elders sniffed the ground and found Satoshi’s scent into the stoned woods.
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162030
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Who the hell wasn’t aware by now? What about prostate cancer awareness? One out of six men got prostate cancer, but you didn’t hear them whining. They weren’t waving blue ribbons in your face.
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162094
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Later, when she said she'd had miscarriages, I should have put it all together.
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162072
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A wave lifted me from my seat, scattering more drops of vomit around, and I thought nastily about bringing the motion sickness bracelets back inside, dripping bags in tow, to ask for a refund.
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162055
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It is hunting season
in Jersey today.
They say
“There are too many deer
in Jersey today.”
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162055
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How the hell do these 1/8 inch long red-eyed flying insects wind up in my kitchen anyway?
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162022
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The next day we were sitting at that same outdoor café on the square, trying to savor a peaceful meal of duck plucked fresh from the Vltava River, when the very same waiter passed by and said, “Bet you wish you had some peeg now, no?” There were camer
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1620104
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feet that would run until their soles were pages of Gideon’s Bibles, worn too thin to touch
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162040
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As part of an online writers ”interview” series, I decided to deviate a little from the norm and do my first interview with our housecat, while I await my first ever conversation with an actual human.
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162086
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The drop is like a hangman's drop, an executioner's, but farther and longer, perhaps three or four seconds.
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162051
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Juan’s tío, Richard, who works for the city and is the kind of Mexican who thinks he isn’t, took care of the lawyer. Juan checks himself in the mirror, didn’t know how good dressing fancy would feel.
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162011
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I have hired a relationship consultant. He helps me through conversations with my wife.
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162022
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1The Bird King's eggs are subatomic particles created serendipitously by a sneeze in a quantum physicist's dream.Occupying a space between existence and nothingness, reason and madness, broccoli and…
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162065
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Infinity occurs as an afterthought, for discoverers like Columbus as for countries like America.
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1619115
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Thank you for the flip book with the woman dancing, bird wing elbows, knees this way and that.
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