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Convenience Store

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I’m casing the place; my boyfriend Jimmy is about to bust in and rob the store.

Everybody Be Cool, This is a Robbery!

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Wesley did not rob banks in Banning County. Wesley Roberts was the sheriff of Banning County; robbing its banks would have created a conflict of interest.

This Cowgirl's Lament

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A tornado and peacock were bred in his paddock; the couple gave birth to a turquoise lasso.

Bunking off

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He looked like a black paper doorway pasted onto a painting of summer.

Joe's Sniff Shack

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Joe's, always smelling of cherry chapstick or the breeze that comes up from subway grates, used to service some of the finest dupes in town.

stung

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Lust

Wings

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He knows I talk to angels, what he would call angels. I don’t talk to him.

Sensation

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She could see him doing these things but she could not hear him.

Let Us Meet In The Afternoon

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You are Day I am Night Let us Meet In the Afternoon And…

Recipe for the Broken

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This poem first appeared in “Walt’s Corner” of The Long Islander, founded by Walt Whitman in 1838.

Playing Boggle with Lowell's Mind

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lewd sinew swine

In The Wake

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Any form of exertion would defile what we are trying to do

The Creator of the Nipple

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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

Nose

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At the conference her boss showed off his knowledge of wines.

Peanut Time

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A peanut, who knoweth

Ink Play

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Lying on a high seat in the south study, this is what I see:

Mr. Pickle and Mr. Peet

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We got a sandwich at Mr. Pickle's, but they cut the sandwich in the plastic. Plastic wrap.

Cancer Always Calls Collect - Part 2 - Dear Santa

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We all know that sometimes miracles happen and sometimes they don't. Some days are good and some days go by slowly as the fatigue sets in and he realizes that he is fighting cancer.

Dirt

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Said do you feel it when you touch me?

July 16

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Last night as a duration spent hovering in electronic media-space.

1935 What I Wanted

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embarrassment

Parsing We

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An excellent plan. Just like old times.

Confinement

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Even music relies on what/ you know as music/ for its power to enthrall.

Any Given Recent Day

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Ten-year-old Bobby Akins learned that a shotgun shell struck on its brass end with a hammer can indeed take out the left eye of an eight-year-old brother observing the proceedings close by.

The Centre of the Universe

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"Look Emily, I’m charging your solar powered calculator and helping you relieve your dependence on foreign oil."

MOTHER MOUSE AND HER BRATS

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Oh, you aren't going to lecture us, for heaven's sake?

Tongues

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I feel his hand on my face, feel it brush past my lips, and I taste my sister's blood.

You Shine Brightest Under the Starlit Sky

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You shine brightest under a starlit skyThe moon reflects your beautyAs the wind sings your name sweetlyIt was under the heavens that we promised togetherThat I'll hold your hand and you'll be mine forever... You glow brightest when the sun is at its highestYour radiant…

Bad Clean Fun

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It was cold and clammy, but then it got worse. Far worse. Any opportunity to celebrate the unity and harmony of tolerance was soon cancelled.

Go Wild

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Sometimes you have to go wild; you have just to go fucking nuts. You do.