1344 2 1
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She continued to cooperate with a city council agenda dominated by globalized privatization
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134400
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Her feet are raised upon an embroidered green pillow and she sits naked in a blue velvet chair. Red earrings dangling from her ears, while a red monkey sits at her feet with one leg extended.
She is exotic. A powder blue on her lips and at her navel,
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13431011
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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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1343911
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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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134354
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After President Trump was elected, my first impulse was to spend the next four years cowering under the bed, whimpering.While I knew that I needed to keep track of what our new commander in chief was up to, watching the news made me too angry and too sad and just too…
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134332
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We were talking in the dark in my room. He lay on a mattress on the floor. He came for a sleepover.
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134321
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But behind the shops (and the many pubs), at the back of the narrow cottage fronts which line the wynds are secret courtyards, surprising gardens and more light than ever imagined.
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134321
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At eight o' clock: as, drawn by many bells, The patchwork congregation lopes and stalks, To churches far from serenade of shells To storms, we leave behind the windblown walks, And sails of youth, to glide through liquid hells, A temporal…
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1343113
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134341
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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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134300
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“Okay,” I say, “but my point is the only way you’d ever know if someone really loved you is if they put their life on the line when it counts. Otherwise you gotta take their word for it.”
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134374
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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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1343116
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Everything is bound to change like / a damsel to the tracks.
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134220
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"We gotta find a way to get high!" "Shh! My parents will hear you Tommy! Their bed is right above us." …
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134200
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This was the anniversary of the chairs. He would celebrate tonight for the chairs, and the chairs would welcome him.
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1342117
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She had just done it in the backseat with the man she decided would be her father. Or maybe it was the cast of his eyes under the dim bar lights. Maybe she insisted that this had to be done, to relive the night under the stars, under a dented roof of a station…
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134287
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Pale like a tracing of a memory
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1342118
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nothing suffices as harbor / but a permit to claw at every yawing chasm
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1342118
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“Just how many different animals try to hide their nakedness?” “Only one. And that'd be us, idiot.”, Twinkle responded. “Then, why don't we mind sometimes showing our bodies?”, she then asked. Twinkle could see it was going to be another…
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134243
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And he was wearing a mask. Gorilla mask over his gorilla face.
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134231
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I just amuse myself by buying old guns and refurbishing them in my basement as I listen to old Bohemian polkas on cassettes.
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1342118
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They could occupy the space//
left by creatures larger and more/
evolved.
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134200
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The eyelid of the sink blinks silence. The clocks choke on smoke.
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13421811
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13421310
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This time the bag's bigger/than the boy and the door.
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1342129
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Who owns the moon? What title search/
could ever make a claim?
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134211
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Come to the park and swing with me, sing with me.
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134263
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I looked down at Earth and imagined this porn star who’d asked for my help.
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134121
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"Haven't you ever had some little thing you would rather everyone just left you alone about? I don't like to have my picture taken. Please don't ask me again."
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134165
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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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