1320 8 6
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At some point we all reach the end point/
of something. Something important/
if only to our fragile self esteem.
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132076
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the late snow, though not welcomed...
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132021
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Soon the world is on film that is burning.
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132043
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The first time I ever held a gun, I was three years old...
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132088
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the brain plays impish tricks/
and entertains itself with avant garde/
home movies
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132067
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The currents of events/
strip the molecules from cartilage,//
reverse polarity of ventricles—
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132020
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Look at this castle: fashioned from the sturdiest sand, pages of my name
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132020
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Rothko and Stella loved the beach. To Jalapeno it was just one big litter box and for her it held no great appeal. She sprawled sunbathing on the dashboard lifting a lid occasionally to watch Lauren riding a wave. The dogs delirious with freedom romped and chased tight…
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132053
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And your daughter, Mrs. P, and your daughter Mrs. Q, underwater, underwater in the old swimming hole, in the backyard swimming pool. “They’ve all got children there.” La la.
Yet when I’m naked, when I enter with my own body the mirror, the small sha
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131963
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On Tuesday, he wears his suit to the cafe. Of course they'll let him pay! Of course. Under the table, his wife accepts their wadded bills.
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131942
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They waited not a moment longer than was necessary But moved right in and
Began their loathsome ch
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131954
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I got no good hubcaps
My van is up on bricks
It's held together with duct tape
And a couple of crummy sticks
I caught the guy who did this
And tied him to a tree
I kicked him in the windpipe
And kicked him in the knee
I'm a man witho
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1319148
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Even music relies on what/
you know as music/
for its power to enthrall.
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131910
|
Astrid did not smoke. Astrid did not drink. Astrid was not overweight. Astrid did not live a sedentary lifestyle; her whole life, aside from shopping, was working out. Astrid had no history of breast cancer or other female cancers in her family. Astrid di
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131985
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Love me like a crutch
Love me when I'm strong
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131910
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The parrots woke Eddie up. That and Rocker snoring in the twin bed. A thousand parrots flying over the motel? They squawked, God how they…
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131930
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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.
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131900
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The Vegan Defense League is a vigilante group formed to fill the gap left by local law enforcement, who jam the parking lot a mile down the road at a donut shop. “By the time the cops finish their coffee and chocolate frosted donuts, we could be dead.”
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131922
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The Inauguration Day Windstorm had blown out half the downtown lights to celebrate its twenty-first birthday. Two old friends flecked with gray snow and white hair sat on the boulders that kept the Sound from sweeping away Myrtle Edwards Park. Look at all the…
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131922
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the lightning horse you never mounted in your inherited dream~wetter than the oceans you never traversed~will you ever ride pure abandon?
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131900
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Mayumi approached them; her memories of their faces from the texts they received from each other had come alive.
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131955
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“Every word was once an animal.”--Emerson This circle has been Broken. The mother has Disappeared inside the wounds Of gunfire like an Eye drop. Who knows if Any of them left, crunched Down, whole into the…
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131977
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I remember the first & only time I parachuted it was 1964 my 16th birthday a rite of passage if you will from the old man an aerospace engineer & former WWII B24 bomber pilot I practice-jumped from oil barrels taught how to fall back then when the time came…
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131985
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—Jesus, that bastard has everyone in his pocket.
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1319105
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I like it best when I wake up
And the wild rain of dreaming ends.
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131951
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It starts with a letter, down the back of the couch, ending, ‘love, always.' I read only the kisses aimed at me - a firing line running off the page. How long has that letter hidden there? It secreted itself in a corner of the house…
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131911
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Shirley stubbed her cigarillo out on a dead chunk of honeycomb.
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131956
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Sometimes I think living in a house with so many rooms /
you can get lost just making your way to the fridge /
should be enough. I chastise myself for wanting more.
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1318115
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There are no inspirations./
There are only the things I like/
and the much more numerous//
things I do not like.
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131800
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Bruce Springsteen begins singing from the loud speaker he was bruised and battered and couldn’t tell what he felt.
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