1471 5 0
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"And then I, and I believe,
I alone, saw
this small child
run..."
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1471 3 1
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My beloved lets me crawl into bed
and put my feet on him
since his skin is
warm and hot like a fire roaring from within
his soft flesh.
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The night sky was washed gray by city lights.
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Billy took acid and blatzed into a 7-11, holding his dick like he hoped the store guy would think the thing was an Uzi. The guy laughed his ass off, reached under the counter, and pulled out a .38…
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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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1471 3 3
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Nearly everyone knows of that celebrated poet’s story coming down to us from classical Greek mythology: the tragic tale of Orpheus and his descent into the underworld to rescue his beloved Eurydice. Well, there’s a much lesser known story of a legendary 7
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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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1471 4 3
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A tornado and peacock were bred in his paddock; the couple gave birth to a turquoise lasso.
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1471 5 4
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Last night as a duration spent hovering in electronic media-space.
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1471 3 3
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1470 9 4
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He wasn't sure if I was joking.
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1470 10 7
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Dreams / of being a millionaire are replaced by dreams / of being a billionaire
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1470 14 8
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Even music relies on what/
you know as music/
for its power to enthrall.
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1470 1 1
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The dance draws deeper
whirling witches weaving rhymes
The fire spits fierce in the falling rain
soon the spell will spill from secret times
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1470 2 0
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When they tell you to choose your last meal, it probably hasn't dawned on you yet.
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1470 1 1
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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.
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1470 0 0
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Oh, you aren't going to lecture us, for heaven's sake?
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We suffer//
the one agony only- of having no longer/
any physical effect nor way to speak/
of what we watch to those we watch.
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1470 0 0
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The eyelid of the sink blinks silence. The clocks choke on smoke.
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1470 1 2
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I was an alcoholic for ten years, starting in my early twenties and continuing into my thirties. Then finally, after many attempts, I got myself straightened out. My son's birth finally did it for me. It wasn't like a switch flipped in the delivery room…
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1470 8 6
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Said do you feel it when you touch me?
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At some point, you care/
just enough to wake each morning,
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When Lois finally found him down there, Johnny was wedged between a large rock and the trunk of an old, long since fallen, cottonwood tree. She said as she got to him, she heard his gurgling breath, fighting fiercely to stay alive. When she saw the deep, gathering, red…
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...the relatives didn't seem nearly as fucked up as she thought they would be considering...
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1470 1 1
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Where the skin had grazed, shredded by the coarse gravel to form scabs, fascinated Jack. It reminded him of his youth and his own grazes, scratches and stitches. As a boy he imagined scabs were rough foundations of igneous rock, blood like lava pouring th
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1470 10 8
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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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1470 10 8
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He knows I talk to angels, what he would call angels. I don’t talk to him.
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1469 2 1
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An excellent plan. Just like old times.
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1469 1 0
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What if
Everything
I have been doing
Hasn’t been heard
By anyone?
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