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You Can Keep the Keys: Song

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Here’s the keys to the house Here’s the keys to the car I’m going out and I don’t care I’m going out to buy a cigar Don’t bother locking up after I leave I’m not coming back anymore I’m going to drink whiskey out of a jar Go out and buy

I've Seen Way Too Often

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how the world is constantlyrevolving her mirroredorbs around the roomlooking for someone tohypnotize, a goddesshell-bent on catching agoon to mortal with; andas you lie from behindyourself so shall she lie withyou. Now, do you reallywant my answer to…

The Metaphysics of Cake

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Can we ever truly know reality? I don’t think so. But fly in comfort my friend. Lean back and enjoy the thrust of those engines.

Global Arms - 2

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While serving in government, she plotted to change it.

Rain Typing

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"I'm just going to take a power nap!"

Mr. Feisty Mischievous

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His nervous cackle makes me sick - Oh, if only - Times were different - That knife - Would fit so nicely in his back

Cairn

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Your cairns/ are litter in the streets

Sixes and Nines

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"I understand."

thank you, for everything

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I was in life, in my dream. I was feeling around underneath your clothing. My fingers were shining in the underwater afterlife of memory, searching for those lovely nipple-sized mollusks. I lived in a land somewhere between the past and the future. Now

77 Words Sparked by Insomnia

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Mice dreams are a reality ...

Pillow

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“I was just dreaming about you,” he said, sleepy-voiced. “What's for breakfast?”

Wounds

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Every day, a fresh new/ strain of Hell reveals itself

The Edge

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You're riding on the edge The edge of life and death Popping pills Shooting thrills Snorting coke and meth Running fast from it all Heading for a fall Needle in your arm What do you care Who does it harm Looks change at will With each and every pill …

Klonakilty

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Magdalena White Herrington praised the lucky stars who’d sent her the Klonakilty ghosts.

1 col 24 point heading here

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I had ink for blood then and “the news” was my oxygen.

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 10

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Sounds terrific, but are there any strings attached?

Tuesday

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Only last Friday, he was introduced/ around, smiling, healthy,/ a fine young man.

The Ritz

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After oh so many hours the eyes could only close only to view a Ritz cracker marching on a nose

Leap

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I was driving by with a dampened eye

The Moon in Winter

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Winter is a particle yet unknown to science. Someday it will be described in terms of spins and magnetism. It will be set in high school physics books and there contained: look, here is winter. Graduate students will split it into cold and melancholy and poets will…

Holy Hell (a screenplay) (v.1)

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(and the teacher’s voice, which we realize has just faded in at a drone:)

1740: My 7th Great-grandfather

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a half-moon hung straight up and down

Jigsaw Magic

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Bonnie envied all of those people who instantly forgot their horrible traumas: Jessica Lynch, the Central Park jogger. Their own brains rescued them. Bonnie's brain was not so generous.

Edge of Wolf

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edge of wolf howls and howls past sunflowers and skeletons

Modern Fable

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there's looks between the covers and shotguns in the drawer

Stellar

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After our first kiss, a team of scientists scrubbed away the cancer of your lipstick.

The Rocket

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Mother told me that I would go to the moon. But she did not tell me that on Diwali night, the moon hid himself on the other side of the sky.

There Was a G.I. - January 1970

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was beaten in the back of the brig.

Wavering Faith

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Grady Quail wondered why God didn't just have another son

Fringe Element

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In order to be a catalyst for catharsis — which is just a fancy way of saying agent of change — you have to be willing to condition yourself into something partially inhuman. Only something on the very outskirts of humanity…