1466 9 11
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The brain taints everything it brings to us/
with its limited apparatus, its precepts,//
all the things it thinks it knows.
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146622
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Rogue sits bedside in Jello Biafra’s hospital room.
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146621
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Ben was dreaming of sex with Claudia. But, in his dream, he could hear Dan Arris calling his name and pounding on a door. The fear of Dan Arris was pushing out the delights of Claudia.
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146676
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I almost caught a poet today.
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146632
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Ty speed-walked down the long ass tunnel that connected his “A” train to the NJ Transit bus, which would take him across the bridge, where he'd splurge for a cab to take him home.
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146612
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she goes jogging with the feet of an angel the sound of crunching leaves like wrapping paper torn open to reveal an expensive doll and the light in her mother's eyes.
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146655
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146600
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We named her Big Cat—I don’t know why. Maybe because she was already grown when we got her, unlike the kittens we’d seen in the pet store window that Dad wouldn’t let us have.
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1466129
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Who owns the moon? What title search/
could ever make a claim?
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146640
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We all stared, somewhat shocked and mostly disgusted.
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1466105
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“Now,” my friend said. “Tell us about earthquakes. Can we expect one anytime soon?”
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146665
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I was low on carburetor / oxygen and my fraud protection / had just expired.
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146621
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I am exceeded / by a leaf
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146511
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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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146565
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He stops smiling and only
says he loves me when prompted,
as if asking me to pass the salt
for his inner peace as it tastes too bland.
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1465119
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The commodore drives a 67 Caddy rag top
All fin and boatish power
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146564
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You’ll say you should have known. You’ll blame my music.
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146555
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I have a ninety two percent rejection rate.
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146511
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When flash and bang merge you are, according to the manual, in deep do-do.
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146565
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(the hourglass has not gone digital, oh no,/but these days, silicon is in with the sand)
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146545
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After my mother died, my father shipped me to my uncle's. He hadn't told me she was dying, so he could just mourn alone.Lena lived next door, Italian, my age -- which was ten -- beautiful. She was watched by goons in black suits. Her parents owned a restaurant. Across the…
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146588
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Always in a hurry/to spoil your/weekend
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146593
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146421
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146421
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Sit down at night and stare into the fire. Consider if Cupid is just another liar.
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146421
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We all thought, Birds! We all thought, Nests inside the chimney!
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146400
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I remember one time when we played strip poker in the basement of your house on Euclid Avenue, me, Terry, you and Andy. And I remember drinking lots of wine and fixing the deck so that you kept losing and having to take off all your clothes, and still you
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146441
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"I am lying on my back and am confused."
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1464116
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I said hey man, how you doin’? He looked up and nodded but his shades flashed and I couldn’t see his eyes.
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146420
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“Tell me a story,” he said, toying with his top hat, running his fingers along its brim.
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