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The bathroom faucet is leaking again. Do they make diapers for faucets?
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1360118
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They could occupy the space//
left by creatures larger and more/
evolved.
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136053
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Oh my god - A plagiarizing pony - I know someone must have said that before
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136095
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We got a sandwich at Mr. Pickle's, but they cut the sandwich in the plastic. Plastic wrap.
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13601310
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This time the bag's bigger/than the boy and the door.
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1360108
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That TV you got me? Ruined. And the ionizer fan? Ruined too. All your clothes you left over here, all my work scrubs and weekend dresses too, soaked with that river stink water. I kept thinking bout all the dead creatures.
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136021
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I am exceeded / by a leaf
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135986
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Our painter man was killed by a bunch of snotty kids who were making fun of him. A gun went off. What is a noodle to do? He wasn't sitting alone in his world, anymore. Where was his famous straw hat? His trusty pipe? He desperately needed to smoke…
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Even music relies on what/
you know as music/
for its power to enthrall.
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135988
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You've had some truly awful shit pumped into your brains for years at a time now. The practice started a long time ago. It's not always your fault. The only lasting way to get it out of your head is to go and figure out exactly where…
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1359105
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Cultivate your vaginal tears
at the gates of Thigh and Holy.
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135921
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“Apollo twenty-two. Come in.”, the voice crackled through the speakers of the aircraft. There was only silence broken by a solitary meow and the slight whistle of oxygenated air through the ventilation system. “Captain Snuggles, now that you…
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13591510
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in which a man who is bored with years of retirement poses a threat to himself and others
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135954
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this is where we end --
the exorbitant eye of forgotten days.
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135920
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I couldn't think of anything that rhymed with "unibrow" except Tsing Tao, which is a brand of Chinese beer....
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135900
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By the time I was born, my parents were already sickened, blackened, blighted people.
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135934
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But what “is” retirement? All of the previous sections in a life are full of detailed descriptions. But “retirement” is somehow left rather vague. One would think that retirement would be the long-awaited GOAL of life. But instead we are left with the
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135974
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The world is slick as alabaster, taking the guesswork out of the rain. Junction Road moves like thick grease under the tires of my '89 Skyhawk. The old car's making a clicking noise somewhere underneath the high-beam switch and the damn…
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135900
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I was watching the bustling crowd below, sipping on a teacup full of Victory Gin when the scream, no a howl, cut through the murmuring of footsteps and telescreens.
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The bartender kept looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar. “Everyone in Hollywood is an actor,” Doc said.
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135954
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Uzma dashes up the stairs ahead of me . . .
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Zusman snored on the sofa as Motel gathered his belongings in the dark. He moved quietly as had become his custom in the mornings. Initially he had tried not to wake his nephew on his way to work in the…
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135900
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Early in the morning
I wanted to send you something
for when you wake;
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135932
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He painted a woman on them, identical to the woman that kneeled by his bed.
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1359129
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Enumerate the small delights/ this bright first morning
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135964
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Poetry is conceit; emotional, intellectual or technical.
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A cheap pocket knife was the only sharp I carried in my backpack and they allowed me that. The man with the pot tattoo on his neck said, “All of us here needs some type of knife. You gotta cut up your food. We don't…
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That afternoon she met me in the lobby of my hotel and we simply smiled at each other in the elevator going up to my room where we sat on the couch for about three hours and told of our lives, of being apart, for so many years, then sensing our time was nearly used up, I…
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I fall in love with a second cousin at the picnic. I make sure I sit next to her.
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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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