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The marble, it's just there.
I can't explain
how it got there
(or when),
all I know
is that everything
is in that marble.
By "everything,"
I mean every
thing. Your breakfast?
It's there.
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I
A sparklerman zig-zagged across the skies, re-arranging stars in its path. How bright his stick-like and jaggy limbs twinkle, I noticed; even noticing my surprise. No longer 'simply sitting', I was.
'It is time' I mumbled. The room was melting, si
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149400
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It is easy to look out on the Bowery and say, "There are the bums." Encountering one, however, even one who asks to "bum a quarter" or tells you he's "on the bum" the word "bum" slips away in one's mind...
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149442
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The ambient sound wheezes on.
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149444
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The bartender kept looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar. “Everyone in Hollywood is an actor,” Doc said.
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149455
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This was not the bar that the artist usually frequented.
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149400
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To a tech-savvy millennial, the definition of progress is a hands-free blowjob, and the real number is not how many men you’ve been with but how many minutes you’ve made them wait.
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149487
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I love Hooters. Best cheese steak in town in my opinion.
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1494177
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...bush tail beside him his closest comfort next to the genes...
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149342
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I left Iowa in august when the air was thick and sticky. I had been there three years minus a few days when the boy I'd been sleeping with packed almost everything I owned into my car and waved goodbye. In Baltimore I had few friends and a job teaching English at a…
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149300
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Now, we can argue about how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, but there is no doubt that it takes eight spritzes of Scrubbing Bubbles bathroom cleaner, three spritzes of Lime-Away, and then a 30 second spray of Oust to incapacitat
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149380
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Beautiful, he thinks, as he taps the ash of his cigarette over the balcony, but this is not good enough.
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149363
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Her boyfriend is into U.S. presidents and professional wrestling. He is reading biographies of both occupations and says this helps him to appreciate gray area, decisive action. Lives of great men, he explains.
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149320
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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.
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149332
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today on the bus/ a man in his fifties/ smiled at a baby/
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149385
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Love me like a crutch
Love me when I'm strong
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149343
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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
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149311
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I am only ever
What you seem to be
Without the leverage
Of sweet reality
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149333
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Where we’ve penned heart shaped question marks, seeds sprouting bowed heads, a congregation of confused supplicants.
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149333
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He thought of his field trip from the previous year, of Prague’s museums, statues, squares, architecture, restaurants, and various modes of transport. The town offered none of these and surely no cinema, no crowds of people, not even an old church.
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149321
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Their tongues were dry, her milk was gone, and the last bit of water in the plastic jug had evaporated.
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1493129
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...it was moving toward me from an oblique angle somewhere behind, steadily, relentlessly.
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149311
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we all die from the bottom up
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149300
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About three dozen people, the doctor told him, dwelt in the small village until there had been a dry spell—a drought the likes of which no one in the region had ever seen before. Theories abounded as to the cause of the drought as theories do: a curse by
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1493126
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"You gonna be old before you're old," my father had told her.
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1493169
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Our disappearance would register/
as the movement of a sand grain/
on a windy beach full of sand.
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149254
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In the words of that great philosopher Hunter S. Thompson, "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
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1492107
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Once you descend, the third rail/
hums its invitation
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149251
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“There are so few uses for Crisco, that to keep it in the house seems an unnecessary temptation,” said my health teacher.
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inside i know my heart rattles
cause outside i'm only seeing
that the truth is in tatters
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