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119911
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Like a distant memory of past expectations
I wander through past journeys, delineations
chew on the fresh air like a discontented Wordsworth
now free, free to roam where I will..
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119911
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You can tell
Noah hates
his job
and stares off
into space
not thinking of
birds
or land anymore
or the stars
just that wide
wide water
that won’t go
away
and why in the vast
flooded
damned
world
he was the one
w
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119931
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Fat robins are chirping –
loudly – at 4 a.m.
They’re trying to delude
the worms into thinking it’s
dawn already
The worms get up underground
They’re grumpy, they
bump into things
They come up to the surface
and Wham! That
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1199106
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A man and a woman argued over the size of the quake. They were sitting on the floor like Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
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119997
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Jeanne and I were married for eight years. I never knew her.
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119941
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We gave our cigarettes names.
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119953
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1199169
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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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119922
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Everybody knew the buildings were trying to kill us.
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1199108
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He knows I talk to angels, what he would call angels. I don’t talk to him.
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119821
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Fumes of sugar rose to Kofi's brain - intense, foreign, disquieting. At every turn of the handle, Kofi wouldn´t know which flavour would suddenly prevail, whether he would like it, or how long it would last …
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119811
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This new kid on the block, named Miller, showed up out of the blue one day, while we were throwing rocks and boulders down on this flimsy gray sheet of construction plywood that was covering an open trench in front of a new house on our block. One of the
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119882
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She wore no bra. As she jammed the truck into park and pushed against the heavy door, he saw the points of her nipples against her dress. Ice filled his belly, the most beautiful pink-colored ice.
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119833
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Wishing he holds you all night, unshaven chin/between your breasts.
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119852
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He remembers, he touches,
he lifts and kisses the mouth.
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1198158
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We are the same shits/
we were in the Bronze Age
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119855
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Due to recent enhancements to our billing system, the rate per unit for your basic service can no longer be determined.
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119800
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This tanka poem was inspired by news report that the Macy's of "Miracle on 34th Street" fame has a white Santa in front and a black Santa in back.
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1198103
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They're haunting me with every spotting. They're convincing me they'd be the unexpected blessing. They're confusing me when I look at my already-children, taking on the shape of this one's face, that one's gestures. We've been…
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119897
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She grew tired of waiting for her husband to give her a flower so she picked one for herself.
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119853
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Any form of exertion would defile what we are trying to do
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119800
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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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1198910
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Fine gradations of the fractional/
fissure the eggshell whole we crave
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119852
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They build them high they do in Waveland, Mississippi.The tall houses with their skinny thighs spread wide flirting with the dusky coast, like antebellum ladies petticoats lifted, stockings wetted, ankles bared, savingtheir hems from the unpredictable tide,…
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119832
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Rose was the easiest lay in the Fletcher Memorial Home For The Aged.
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119844
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"How the fucks he drivin' like that?"
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119883
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The particles of dust didn't want to be looked at
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119821
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She’s always had one foot on a pedestal and the other in a gutter.
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119854
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A gentle man,
and a fierce woman,
charmed one another
in a shaded gazebo.
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