1498 16 9
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The blood is memorable/
as is the copper taste of that/
momentary certainty of lockjaw.
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149862
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149833
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Who hasn’t at some point of the day wanted to dredge up everything in your pocket just to see what it is.
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149842
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The first and easiest reason was that he never hit me. Well, if he never hit me, then how could it possibly be abuse? Never mind the threats to stab me in the neck. He was only angry. He really didn't mean that. Never mind he restrained me, or cornered me
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149895
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149864
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I woke up to the humming
of an empty space in the shape of a sweatshirt,
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149811
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The Bird King is trapped behind the mirrors. Sometimes you'll see a hand, a wing, fluttering in a dark space. You may even see his breath, a pulse of mist in a corner of the glass. But don't ever smash his silvered prison. Don't ever let him out and into the world.*****O…
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149765
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No matter what you may discover
Or come to believe during the drinking life
The question still remains:
What if everyone was an accident?
But still, while time may appear
To be nearing its own end
And the sun seems to be getting
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149757
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It is claimed we choose/
conditions of our servitude.
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149798
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Dressed as an English professor on Halloween
I escape the red devil and run downtown.
I go to the Art Car hangar
I dance, I swing my golden brown briefcase
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1497107
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My blood has turned to flour I've been in Babylon too long My heart was singed by fire But it's drowning in my song We raised a prayer to Mary We had to take our share We took our places in the ferry But we didn't pay the fare And we don't know…
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149752
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We talk of his time in the jungle.
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149700
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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…
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1497128
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the two become one where/
all things end,
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149786
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I'm working through the rocky pine cones so you don't have to. I'm stepping over the little dreaming people in your dreams so we don't wake them with our loud and coming loose footprints. The poem passes by like a heartbreaking train…
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149787
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...coming into that bone yard, you just hang a right, go on past La Fontaine, and take a left a bit further on. Jimbo's right up in there.
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149741
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To rival the professor in his knowledge of various body parts is impossible ...
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149721
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He didn’t even have the energy to tell me to tie her up when he got home.
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1497117
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You are a warm winter
Despite the presence of snow
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149721
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She continued to cooperate with a city council agenda dominated by globalized privatization
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1497108
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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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149611
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No chance for Hallo, we sank into an unlit station doorway and he fumbled through my shorts.
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149601
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She could see him doing these things but she could not hear him.
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149642
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The convalescent home's common areas are surprisingly well-appointed, given the neighborhood, which makes his actual living quarters that much more dismaying. Poorly lit, dusty, stifling, the room reeks of socks worn for weeks on end. My nostrils burn, and my eyes…
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149631
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In the fall it is especially beautiful with the blazing orange oaks set on fire against a crystal blue sky. It is here that she frequently daydreams of her demise.
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149600
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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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149622
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You have such a complicated mind /
for refusing to believe in God /
just like any damned liberal /
whose fingerprints /
crowd the faces of a thousand /
dollar bills /
being passed around your great nation...
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149654
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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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149621
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The blaring scream from my alarm clock suffices as my wake-up call. It disrupts me from my dream state that I so rarely get the privilege to experience any more. I've always loathed that alarm clock, so I turn it off in the most sensibly aggressive manner I know how: just…
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149611
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A mundane endeavor depicted as a quest. Try it, you'll like it!
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