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Take no form or face beautiful enough to cause warfare, or that which would provoke inanimate objects to song. If a tree wishes to flower in your presence, request that this happen very slowly.
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1462149
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The dog is reading. This morning, as every morning, the book is open in front of him. Well before his master's rise, he had already read the moon then dawn and the clouds. Now the slippers, these that walk here and there. Followed by coffee and the pages that turn. A little…
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146253
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The bar was dark and a little dirty, and that suited Splinker's mood just fine.
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All else is unmoved/
and relentless in its indifference.
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1462168
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I watch the seagulls making their quacking noises
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146265
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We were offered mannequins that had pubic hair that grew and swirled, and could visit like a pet, and sit in your lap
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146255
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It wasn't pain
but half of it,
so half of it I mended
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146200
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Licking my wounds.
That's what my mother calls it. I'm not really sure what that means or if it's true. Sure, losing your boyfriend, apartment and job in a matter of months can drive someone to do something impulsive. Something crazy. But I've always b
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146200
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The streets were filled with animals of the forest. All in a panic trying to find a direction. Mixed among them were members of various Clans that lived in the forest.
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146210
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I'm waiting for your voice. My trembling hand is so damp the phone could slip from my fragile grasp at any moment. Each ring burns in my ear and makes the washing machine in my stomach tumble faster and faster. After three rings, or it could be four, or forty, I hear…
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146245
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Art books, paintings, antique chairs, marble tables, full length gold gilded mirrors, oriental rugs, tapestries, a Louis XVI painted French armoire, a wrought iron Deco coffee table, flat ware, silver flasks, mantel lamps, iron gates, a silk settee, theat
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146211
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Winter in Phoenix Arizona happens in July. An overgrown lawn is working its way up onto The sidewalk. And then there's you with your mower, A hidden newspaper in the middle of everything. Snowflakes puff out from under Spinning blades. You hover above like…
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146272
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This is what it is to feel yourself forget.
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146201
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On the street / The protesters stand / Yelling words empty as wind
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146200
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Aura arrives with the incense and her mysteries. Her scent of wet earth, and crushed flowers, a touch of Jasmine and Frankincense. Her dark hands passing over my body, her warmth. A whisper. A prayer.
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146255
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146200
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A tanka poem about Jolly Old Nick being black as hell.
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146293
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146122
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We all tell them/even when our mothers
warned us only the Devil/tells stories
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146111
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No chance for Hallo, we sank into an unlit station doorway and he fumbled through my shorts.
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146143
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Philosophy: a muscular exercise of throat, jaw, tongue, and brain.
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146100
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Ships tumble, cars crash, horns gulp water, bombs burst up from the ground in a halo of screams.
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1461158
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i hear the boom boom boom
in the room room room
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1461108
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like the Bible in / Mauritania, like a mouse in a vial of ammonia, / like a retired coal miner on vacation in the Alps
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146154
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I know this much: right now I’m over a thousand miles from my brother. I’ve been watching the odometers, adding it all up.
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146121
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The sun becomes hot. She removes her skirt. She is left with a black bodice, with white laces, leggings underneath and a pair of twelve hole Doc Martens.
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146111
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When flash and bang merge you are, according to the manual, in deep do-do.
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146122
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The first days of October are ordinary in the way that milk just hours away from spoiling is ordinary milk. You can baptise your cornflakes with it, but part of you knows the whole thing is just shy of almost right.
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146111
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Baby Teak can access Wikipedia by rubbing two xylophone mallets together.
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146142
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"Mama skipped the training bras and just gave me her old bras. I'll be 25 before I can wear her old bras..."
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