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In the next week or two, the red oak/
will loose and lose its leaves
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134232
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Scientists have discovered what I already did once on dope
way back in the Sixties.
There are so many other earths out there
that they are almost infinite.
Now in our other lives we have to
shuttle from planet to planet
reading our poems. And o
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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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134254
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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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134250
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"And then I, and I believe,
I alone, saw
this small child
run..."
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134221
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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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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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134253
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At times we rarely desire to be where we are at home quite as much as we desire to be where we are no longer.
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134243
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Breathe a stench of Eton musk...
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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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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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1341148
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Even music relies on what/
you know as music/
for its power to enthrall.
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134110
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Smiling, holding hands, Joe and Lara basked in the sunshine of the mid January day as they approached the diner. The temperature was warm enough for golf. Joe had played in far colder weather in spring and fall.
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134175
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134187
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Pale like a tracing of a memory
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1341113
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134100
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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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134144
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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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134174
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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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13411310
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This time the bag's bigger/than the boy and the door.
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134185
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—Jesus, that bastard has everyone in his pocket.
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1341117
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You are a warm winter
Despite the presence of snow
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134121
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She continued to cooperate with a city council agenda dominated by globalized privatization
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134111
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Come to the park and swing with me, sing with me.
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134064
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After the Tokyo experience, Frank and Michiko decided that when she went on extended tours, Frank would accompany her.
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1340118
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nothing suffices as harbor / but a permit to claw at every yawing chasm
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134055
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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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