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Won't speak a word against 'em. Car trunk stunk like bad chicken long after, but I won't speak a word against 'em.
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The nerves are birds that guide us to feeling the loop and lift of reverie.
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Who owns the moon? What title search/
could ever make a claim?
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We all stared, somewhat shocked and mostly disgusted.
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There were guitar players, and as happens with talent sometimes, the guitar players were too talented. There could not be places for all of them in a single rock band.
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I am exceeded / by a leaf
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We all tell them/even when our mothers
warned us only the Devil/tells stories
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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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[CAUTION: READING THIS STORY COULD CAUSE IRREPARABLE "CULTURE SHOCK" AND IS NOT ADVISED FOR OLD FOLKS, PREGNANT WOMEN, OR THOSE WITH "MONSTROUS, FRAGILE EGOS"!]
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We all thought, Birds! We all thought, Nests inside the chimney!
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The commodore drives a 67 Caddy rag top
All fin and boatish power
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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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I almost caught a poet today.
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I have a ninety two percent rejection rate.
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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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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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Always in a hurry/to spoil your/weekend
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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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“Now,” my friend said. “Tell us about earthquakes. Can we expect one anytime soon?”
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I was low on carburetor / oxygen and my fraud protection / had just expired.
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Sit down at night and stare into the fire. Consider if Cupid is just another liar.
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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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When flash and bang merge you are, according to the manual, in deep do-do.
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But tonight
while your finger
glides across
the glossy pages
of Popular Science
I hold a séance
for the Holy Spirit
in utter seriousness
among the book clutter
and crumpled manifestos
in the basement
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I never took more than a few pills at a time, just enough for a treat on Friday night.
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I am fair game that will be hunted and eaten, cutting its edge with Satan's tears from six eyes.
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My eyes don’t close but hers are shut tight, and something inside tells me that to this girl, I could be absolutely anyone.
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