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Houses Are Havens and the Outside Plans Your Destruction

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The first of the fires that started by the river in the abandoned mills were so hot they burned white and pale blue

We Never Left

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Above our bellies we are beautiful women with luscious breasts. Where there is skin, believe me, it is flawless, irresistible. Most of us have long hair, but there are some among us who keep their heads close cropped for aerodynamic…

Story Story

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It was one of those sweltering afternoons that San Diego endures only several times a summer. I'm riding on El Cajon Boulevard, with my friend John in his old Chevy pickup. John is a lifelong San Diego resident and fanatical Charger backer. He's talking up some…

Melons

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A baseball bat a large pipe a hammer and axe

Tatters

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inside i know my heart rattles cause outside i'm only seeing that the truth is in tatters

Put Your Trust in God

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God is my stomach.

An Orb for a Better World

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Max sighed. Solving for x was boring, so mind numbingly boring that he didn't notice the flickering blue light hovering in his room. It crackled and popped, growing until a shimmering rectangle stretched from floor to ceiling.A hand pushed out from the rectangle, and a…

Coffee Foam

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We entered the castle at dawn. The dim light feebly illumined an array of antiques and medieval weapons. Bats dangled from the high vaulted ceiling, enfolded in membranous wings. What were once chandeliers radiating light were encrusted with webs and the ancient wax…

Cube of Boxes

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...he was suddenly and hazily relieved that he had something in Persepolis and blue agave plants to talk to her about.

Figures in Disquieting Landscapes

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Tentacles hold fast to the small/ thrashing thing they believe is true// which, devoured, once crushed/ completely still, turns into shit,

The Morning

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Early in the morning I wanted to send you something for when you wake;

This Is Why

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Look at this castle: fashioned from the sturdiest sand, pages of my name

Movie Conference, 1963

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Suddenly the producer, Irving, tosses a new idea into the discussion, an idea for a possible film. Then the writer, Herbert, does the talking. He performs, in fact, puts on a one-man show. The idea! The idea! It's…

Snack

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Kerryn saved us from ourselves really. Would you be reading this had she eaten it?

Perilous Joy

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...bush tail beside him his closest comfort next to the genes...

Happy Birthday Sian or How to Fall in Love

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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…

I Am Quantum

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He had a lean build, except, remarkably, his midsection was perfectly barrel-like. As if he kept an alien lifeform in his belly, cultivated by years of Pabst and Yuengling transfusions.

Query

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time timed times time

Taking Leave

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A walled city doesn’t let you out any more easily that it has let you in earlier.

leave the dog, take the cannoli

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he who laughs last is probably a dumbass fuck

Cat Woman Sexy #5

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Cultivate your vaginal tears at the gates of Thigh and Holy.

Desert Storm, an Infrared Dream/David Avidan

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Desert Storm, an Infrared Dream/Poem by the late David Avidan On January 17, 1991 I woke up at 02:45 from a neo-surreal dream with a slight not very serious feeling of suffocation a pre-asthma attack instantly stifled with the inhalation of Ventolin an

Junk Pulse

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Me included...

The Girl I Danced With Is Now A Man

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You can't always be everything you were expected to be

Nut Breakers Hill

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they flew down the slopes with her holding on for all she was worth

Taken from 'A Story of Me And You'

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No one commented on her altered appearance, although Will in Accounts said he quite liked her hair like that, so she assumed that no one could see the snakes. But she still felt self-conscious, exposed. She had to remember not to talk to them when she was…

children

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today on the bus/ a man in his fifties/ smiled at a baby/

When Birds Do Not Fly

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The last chick in the nest

Lose the Baggage

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I could be dead wrong.

Bridges Are a Lot Like Long Corridors

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Nothing good ever waits at the end of a long corridor.