1494 0 0
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A tanka poem about Jolly Old Nick being black as hell.
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1494 6 5
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I was low on carburetor / oxygen and my fraud protection / had just expired.
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1494 2 1
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I am exceeded / by a leaf
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1493 3 3
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The gate squeaked, the gravel shuffled and the letterbox clattered as February 14th's mail cascaded to the ground.
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Why did he seek punishment, if he felt no guilt? Why this empty conscious, though he had done such evil?
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1493 7 1
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She talks about window treatments, how the place is maybe too much for one. Wants me to know she’s not much of a cook, and wants me to smell what’s in her oven and compliment her cooking anyway.
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1493 4 2
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who can quite say/when careless talk & confidence/slips into that other charged thing/so minimal at first
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1493 2 2
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“I’m pregnant,” he says...
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1493 4 3
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The first time I ever held a gun, I was three years old...
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1493 4 2
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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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1493 11 9
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When Chuck dies, I’ll throw/
a party and dance, a little drunk,/
across what I’ll pretend/
is the old shit’s grave.
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1493 4 4
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I slide my CD toward Eric Burdon who sits, smiling and gracious and fatigued from Seattle traffic, at the table at Silver Platters, where I have just purchased ‘Til Your River Runs Dry, and stood in a line of old gray heads to have him sign it. I remove my hat and…
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1493 2 1
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This is how she does it:
Forward………… ...Reverse..........…….....Forward..........……...Reverse
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1492 6 5
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Certain disorders lend themselves to poetics.
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1492 5 3
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Into the bowl I put Tales from the Crypt, The Far Side and an episode of Numbers. Wisked for a moment, then let the dough rise.
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1492 0 0
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The little clapboard church sits stiffly in the sun. It's steeple marking time with it's shadow on the sidewalk. It is the last place most people would think to look for a vampire, but I am sure that one is in there. Contrary to popular opinion, there
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1492 2 1
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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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1492 0 0
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The struggling creature opened its beak and let out a shrill cry before both parents moved in and, using their webbed feet, forced its head back under the surface.
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1492 0 0
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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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1492 7 2
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1492 0 0
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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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1492 1 1
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Colton nods, without words, understanding the significance of every word that the Old Man has uttered, knowing that in the end, given enough time, we all go down that lonely corner, to embrace the darkness, wishing to be cured of our sentiments.
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1492 6 5
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Shhh. I am here. Otillie Augustine, from Trieste, an Italian city to you, but when I lived it was part of Austria. Such things as who flies their flags over a city? Not so important after all, after all the losses and the victory speeches. These were not…
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1492 7 3
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The countdown is on and daily the propaganda gets more and more aggravating It appears at times that the news media dictate and orchestrate more that just report on events of diplomatic shock. A huge effort has gone in to covering this coming war and it…
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1492 9 8
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Regret takes the shape of little clouds ...
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1491 0 0
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Mother’s eyes stared outward in a trance, on her throne, visualizing the world Azure made. Though it was right before her, she could not reach it.
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1491 4 3
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It was a wake-up call. A sign that I needed to stop and ask if I was making wise and sensible life choices.
My iPod was full.
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1491 4 1
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"I am lying on my back and am confused."
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1491 2 1
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Up top, the sky is like a fist fight-
fat lip purple and bitchslap pinks get wilder as the tabs kick in.
Those hovering lights are aliens!
we assert with insistent like-mindedness
from where we sit directly beneath the airport flight path.
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1491 11 5
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As air warms and warm/
winds stir, green becomes the force/
that surges the plains.
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