1308 3 1
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okay fine, on the count of three
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130742
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Some great, doubtless precious;
some hollow, likely empty;
some only shards, but you never know...
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130721
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Q: Tell me briefly about how you got into the death industry.
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130741
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“Damn!” he said to himself, wondering for the millionth time what he was doing in such a sad line of work. Break time, he decided, grabbing his stash box and locking himself into the freezing cold bathroom to smoke a joint.
He emerged thirty minutes la
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130700
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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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130731
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He fought off the U-boat packs in the Atlantic — one hand on the tiller, one on the torpedo launch button.
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130742
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Frank was about to take the first bite of a chicken salad sandwich.
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130731
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Flowing, Flown In the field stands a jealous man with fifteen eyes stored inside the cuffs of well-worn khaki pants. His pockets pull with clinking dimes…
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130786
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She wakes up lip-syncing the remnants of a dream: the throb of cherry blossoms, the whine of lotus flowers.
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130776
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One/
can’t always trust the eye and ear//
in such matters but what can one do?/
Mistakes will be made.
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130711
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Stanley had a crush on Sarah. They were in Ms. Goldman's freshman chemistry class together fifth period. That day they were working on homework at Sarah's house while her parents were gone. Stanley was in heaven.“Break time!” Sarah woke Stanley from daydreaming,…
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1307129
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Your cairns/
are litter in the streets
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130711
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Hands and fingers feeling down
Cross the boundaries I laid
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130730
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After our first kiss,
a team of scientists
scrubbed away the cancer
of your lipstick.
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130711
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The guy – it’s Billy Krazik - turns and aims at Jamie Stockwell, sitting there calmly as if he’s in the play or something and he takes two to the head.
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130752
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The Bunny Hop represented that riot-like atmosphere–in cuddly guise–described by Claude Levi-Strauss in his seminal essay that I have forgotten the name of it’s so important.
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130765
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Anneliese inserted one of her crystal drops in Hymen's left ear and kept her left earring in. For a quarter, she bought a handful of cashews and plopped them on a red napkin.
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130600
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DRA musical - 1942… Open on the General Jackson crowded with Marines, headed to (Tennessee Base),at the front of the ship, young men laughing, unrealistic military dreams/wordless chatter... LET IT RIDE .. main character is a marine en route to base...Solo verse,…
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1306149
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and you imagine euthanizing them if what she says is true, that she is leaving them to you in her will.
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130675
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I dreamt, said the Donkey, of an apricot. An apricot the size of a heart. …
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130600
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The woman tapped a dark plastic stirrer on the tabletop in front of her to emphasize something she was saying.
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130631
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She seizes my hand. I resist just enough to sense her strength.
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130611
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His Danger Pistol was out of bullets, his Bag of Tricks was empty, and he wasted his last can of Antimatter back at the lab. All he had was his Charm and his wits. Charm wouldn't last forever, and he'd always come up a little short in the wits department.
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130681
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Buck, naked, has no words. The best he can manage is a dopey strangulated cough. His wife, who is clothed, stands before him, next to the waterbed that took Buck half a day to force into the trailer.
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130633
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As she slunk to her topless Mercedes
sparkling curbside, wax job hand rubbed
in Hamburg, testosterone heads turned
wishing similar treatment.
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130633
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we ran that afternoon/across Bayshore lanes/into green blooming fields, beyond all those
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130632
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In my mind the village of 300 souls is called Nedoweska, but I confess that that's just a dreamy nickname I had for it as a boy. For various geopolitical reasons it had since become noteworthy as a historical site, though our interest was purely personal.…
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130621
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So you printed your resume on this coffee cup - that’s something
- I wanted you guys to think about me every morning - while you were getting your coffee
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130641
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I gently honked my horn and gave her the kind of friendly neighbor wave that only friendly neighbors can give. She didn’t wave back. What the hell is her problem?
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130622
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He had that kind of connection /
with his cocktails, intimate /
sort of like a boy and his dog. //
Cocktails have in any case /
saved him from the bottom /
of many dark wells. /
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