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The bathroom faucet is leaking again. Do they make diapers for faucets?
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It is midnight in Utah, but I can’t tell. It always looks like midnight in a cave.
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the late snow, though not welcomed...
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Mayumi ran. She ran fast as if her life depended on it. She never looked back. She did not care about her friends. Mayumi just wanted to escape that world more than ever, but she did not get far.
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Poetry is conceit; emotional, intellectual or technical.
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William Shakespeare (a surname that meant "wanker" back in the day, by the way)
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“Now,” my friend said. “Tell us about earthquakes. Can we expect one anytime soon?”
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Sheep are very philosophical, I hear. Stop this hopeless dreaming.
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Too often, Calvin's willful head finds its way into his hands.
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There are no inspirations./
There are only the things I like/
and the much more numerous//
things I do not like.
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I can't believe it's Frankie, but there he is at a table on the far side, just in front of the big picture window. I hold the menu close to my face and peek again over the top, watching as he reaches under the white linen tablecloth to plant…
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Speaking of stiff nipples, I heard you once wanted to become a painter, because of your fondness for nipples. Feeling like Gauguin and his little Polynesian women/girls, are we? So, you're going to try to out-paint God, are you, Mr. Sistine Chapel of the
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There’s someone in the audience who is immolating himself
Cutting his own leg over and over with a pen knife
And groaning: “Oh God, oh God”
And all I can think from up at the podium is
This guy must absolutely hate these poems
I am reading
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They could occupy the space//
left by creatures larger and more/
evolved.
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The first and easiest reason was that he never hit me. Well, if he never hit me, then how could it possibly be abuse? Never mind the threats to stab me in the neck. He was only angry. He really didn't mean that. Never mind he restrained me, or cornered me
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they flew down the slopes
with her holding on
for all she was worth
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the stars might be the audience or they might not be
if the beat sits right next to me and hugs me nasty
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Enumerate the small delights/ this bright first morning
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He also had OCD. He had to kick every dog he met. Johnny killed a lot of dogs and was bitten by many others. He was a cruel bastard.
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He and she are fucking while I watch. She's moaning deep desire and he's pounding flesh into flesh. I'm fully clothed, eyes attune to their fornication, studying. He comes inside of her; their bodies stiffen and then wriggle against one another. …
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The winter’s too warm for the bears to sleep,
and they get up in the middle of the night
with insomnia and wander about the streets
in their pajamas, knocking over garbage cans,
looking for a midnight snack of some kind.
They’re getting kind o
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If you are a family member or friend of a person incarcerated in a correctional facility...
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My mother gave her all to convince him to be a politician. My sister begged on bleeding knees for him to give her head. I just needed somebody to help me find things.
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in her bedroom, opening night of his solo show she is snapping her nylons to center the seam stretching from her toes to where the line disappears into the hem of her dress.
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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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nothing suffices as harbor / but a permit to claw at every yawing chasm
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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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Her voice gets screechy as she talks of the boy he was caught fondling in the bathroom of a bowling alley. The worst part: the dumb schmuck doesn’t even bowl.
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Always in a hurry/to spoil your/weekend
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