1339 5 5
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Like when she said the word 'but', it came out ‘bet’.
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133820
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Liking up with the Joneses...
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133800
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A sort of invocation of the open sky, in contradistinction to the dark of the Earth whence came the specimens, a figurative marriage of the literal darkness of exploration and the figurative light of knowledge.
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1338208
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I'm trying to make love to her but she wants to talk.
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133831
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She seizes my hand. I resist just enough to sense her strength.
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1338113
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I've written of this and I've written of that, Have scriven as you have it either that or this: But if you strive against the wind when you decide to piss, They say, you'll find up firing against your hat- Like some old Brother who was broiled when…
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133822
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So young. So innocent. How do you tell a little one that her mother is dying? The father seemed to be bathing in a sea of hopelessness lately.
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133844
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"Shouldn’t I be able to easily get my arms around nothing?”
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1338177
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Eat the Body/
Drink the Blood/
Perfect the sacrifice,
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133844
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My story begins where so many have ended, strapped fast to a cold table, just moments from a lobotomy needle and anything resembling the man that I am.
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13381310
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133800
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the first night we visited/ i stepped on a splinter/ while walking to the car/ and half-limped back,/ hiding a wince.
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1338129
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We perform our chosen duty— naming/
beauties and atrocities within
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133832
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A short time ago, a man who lived near me got angry. He woke up one morning and torched his house, with his wife and stepdaughter still inside. He drove up I-35 to the Georgetown airport, got his plane, and flew it into the Echelon Building in Austin.
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133831
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okay fine, on the count of three
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133843
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...she had marked the stars with a blue pen, connected the dots to make Andromeda, Cassiopeia, told us of the gods behind the stars...
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133722
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What a great feeling it was, the day I first thought about and discovered how toilets work. Nearly as exciting as the day I learned wheelbarrel is actually spelled wheelbarrow.
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133742
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They sit across from each other and she smiles as if they were in a normal place.
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133733
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Today, I am almost entirely self-coincidental, though I still feel a lag lurking somewhere.
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133741
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IV. From Hoover Dam The intent of passive presence wreathes an endless ring, Invisible, beyond all thoughts and change to sickness. This hour beats sibylline as vacancy, breathing Through mouths that do not taste their nothingness. I do not know where you are;…
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133721
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Wild bore the wind down on me, coming out of the heavens that turned around the stars of the evening. The longing and the appetite at work in the body, all tickling to open a girl’s mane, gaping, health-giving crossroads to the body. Hail and farewell t
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133755
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Perdita's confusing profusion of parts makes it impossible to know which way up she goes.She flutters beneath the camera's shuttered stare, …
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133751
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Now that Spring has sprung I am reminded about the day a former neighbour complained about my squirrel collection. I love to feed the black squirrels that gather in my yard and she became convinced I had trained several ninja squirrels to enter her garden
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13371612
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you escape by finding the bubbles
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133742
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A sizzling as skin and sinew melt, fall away. "Scream if you need to scream, child." And I scream, and her song gains strength. The warmth of her around me. It is time.
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133754
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A gentle man,
and a fierce woman,
charmed one another
in a shaded gazebo.
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133741
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The Beatles on TV
their last show
together
as a group
and we all
knew it
smoking dope
sitting around in large
groups
in living rooms
across the universe
they sang Let It Be
and The Long and Winding Road
knowing
a man
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1337168
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The Muse//has used/ me up
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133753
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Could even drift off to
New Orleans for a slow sip
of a hurricane
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133741
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In the morning I listen through an ear-trumpet
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