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A mundane endeavor depicted as a quest. Try it, you'll like it!
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He kept
saying how my old scars
excited him to new truths
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Maybe it was a trick of the gloom.
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You’re listening to Smooth FM, taking you from the darkest hours to the start of a brand new day.
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...when they entered eager lungs hungry from deep and sweaty love
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my love for you/ is like the falling snow
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All the things that are his.
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Pen or sword? Pick one/choose your battles carefully/for the paths oppose
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My third Rule of Success—and I may not have these in exactly the right order–is always get a pre-nup!
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I like it best when I wake up
And the wild rain of dreaming ends.
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In the end nothing could bring him back because I tried. All those weeks and months, yet all I have left are the tears and memories. He said when he asked the final questions to those in charge he was confused.
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when i was five or six/ we lived in an apartment/ and every sunday/ i'd lie on the carpet/ to watch squares of sunshine/ crawl across the rug/ while my mother inflicted upon us/ a centuries-long hour of television/ worse than any droning mass.
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The Poisoning I used to call my dad Serpico. Thirty years on the police force, and though a respected officer, he never fit in. He never had beers with the guys at the end of a shift or engaged in the more lewd locker room talk. None of the other cops were privy to which…
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I learned how to fall in love, in one hour, watching The Waltons. John Boy fell in love with Jenny. Jenny fell in love with John Boy. It taught me the right way to fall in love. It taught me the right way to let love go. I was 12 years old. It was a lesson I…
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In that time when the trunk was getting cleared out and when it became only the empty shell of what had once been so important, many things hit the match. She burned an old black negligee, a picture competing with the likes of a Vargas girl and other thin
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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…
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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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Sometimes, to be sad, you don't need tears.
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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.
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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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Look at this castle: fashioned from the sturdiest sand, pages of my name
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Neither you nor I is old enough, of course,
to remember that America’s most
popular athlete once was a horse.
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Sometimes my poems escape. They crawl out through my Wi-Fi connection, I suspect.
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I am i said pursued by the feeling of being watched.You are she said -- by yourself. As in a dream, a dream you know you're dreaming. Which changes nothing.We are she said watching from the mezzanine, half-above, at once a part and apart.
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My eyes are wide open. I look like a graphic novel. My world is black and white. I’m poorly drawn. All sounds have an exclamation point.
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Robert Frost told me that life goes on, but that’s just not good enough for me and for God’s sake it shouldn’t be good enough for you either, should it?
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today on the bus/ a man in his fifties/ smiled at a baby/
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Someone shoved over a table. A little girl started crying.
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