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Fat Patty sniffs the delicate waft of peat and sidles over, proffering a grope in exchange for a few wet-lipped swigs. Hell yes.
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1320128
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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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132000
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Behind the bellicose façade lay a soft, compassionate soul. He sat within a swirl of rosy twilight hues, buoyed by the gently creeping tide. A dark wall approached and he mechanically spun and began stroking into the glassy canvas of light and ocean that lay between him…
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132044
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So for now, let the snow fall, but
let it fall gently,
each flake as a soft piano note
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132031
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It was more than just taste/
more than a point of view/
and oil and pigment/
that painted a store front church/
a box with a cross in a vacant lot/
that welcomed desperation, faith/
and imagination.
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132062
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We’re going to talk about our future like the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40. Like there are 40 great songs this week about our future.
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1320107
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and where have the years sped
how distant was your youth
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132010
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Talking to Shakespeare by the riverside,
I am saddened by my lust for women,
how my eyes fixate on the spit that passes from top to bottom lip as they talk to me.
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132021
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Only fragments of their lives survive, like broken Sapphos. I have known them, alleged killer of themselves for the love of a man., but we know this is an invention. The leader of a whole guild of girls, who wrote 7 books of poems. What happened to them
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132064
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Frank kept looking over at Michiko’s loft.
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131964
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I'd wear my pajamas too, fitting for the big sleep
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1319105
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an engine stalls out
in the parking lot
the driver
tears her skirt
coming through the door
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131910
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The doctors said, when she was born, that the gills would eventually fade away on their own. Nothing to fear, they said; no more unusual than the rare child born with a tail, or a dense pelt of fur, or a single sharp tooth jutting from its new pink gums.
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131922
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At a candlelit table near the back of the restaurant, Jack and Lois greeted the waiter as he delivered their drinks, a diet coke for him, and for her, a vodka and cranberry. He apologized for the slow bar service and promised to return in a moment to take their…
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131910
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the honesty of bodies & the lies hidden under skin.
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131965
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I know someone in need of healing.
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131921
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Sometimes when I fall I see a ...
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131954
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. . . how a body calls
in the dark. . .
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131932
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sometimes it's hard/ to leave the house in the morning/ when bed is so comfortable/ and you're so far away.
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131932
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The Intrepid Explorer recounts his travels for the benefit of subscribers to the Magazine of the Museum of Everything
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1319125
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Monday will come soon enough to get/
what needs to be done, done.
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131953
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Any form of exertion would defile what we are trying to do
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131990
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Sit right down in the chair. It's a glider, see? Smooth and easy movement without that annoying head-swing you get from a rocker. And easy to get out of, unlike a lounge chair. Relax. "Reba" reruns will be coming on in a minute.
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131955
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It's been a bad year, People dying. Some too close to home, Some too far away. I cry down to you, In your casket, and think you might sit up. You were not sick You went in just a moment, Looking stunning and alive. Not…
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131975
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1319128
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Compartments trickle together/
in light diffuse and unreliable./
Fortify yourself against the day.
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131954
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Mon wakes up surrounded by trees. The light is grey, the trunks black.How long have I slept? he wonders.He doesn't know which way to walk. In every direction, the same prospect of trees. He looks up at a blank sky. No sign even of the sun.***He starts walking. Slowly,…
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131900
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And God said unto the oil can: “Thou art cursed above the cattle, and above every beast of the field. And deep the ground shalt thou go.”
“Mother,” said the oil can, “fucker!”
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131943
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"You're no good at sex, no good at drugs and, god knows, no good at rock and roll."
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131955
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She thinks this is the place she dreamed
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