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Okay, I’ll admit it, the earth was shaken on the world's underside, when you left for California. And I sometimes slept on the shores of Lake Michigan and Fox River for your tremendous thousand years’ charisma. To say I cried out in pain would be lettin
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1314108
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If you stop, you starve//
and they just offer what you do/
to others, starved already,/
and schooled, as you, in servitude.
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131464
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I try as much as I can to write but only in as much as you believe―am I successful.
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13141710
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I arrange my stones in circles
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131421
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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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13141612
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you escape by finding the bubbles
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131411
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She remembers the days when she could have purchased every card in the store and found the words to fill them all.
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1314159
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Squeeze the Word into Flesh
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131476
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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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1314129
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Your cairns/
are litter in the streets
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It wasn't the same as taking a course with Ginsberg. Everyone knew Ginsberg. Nick Cave, too, everyone knew him. Waiting lists were full months in advance for those classes, everyone sent in resumes and writing samples, praying, begging to be included. Lish was just an…
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131443
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Hail the yellow cab the yellow one will do just fine as second condiment to the sun
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1313127
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contacts, false eyelashes, strappy open-toed sandals
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131311
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Leaning toward Joshua, Stuart says softly, “Take it easy, okay? We’ll bury him. He shouldn’t be left here, in your kitchen.”
Joshua glares. “Don’t you fucking move him.”
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131320
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Clatters and clatters ensued, and the splash destroyed all denial.
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My father taught me how to solder and that's when I first started to write. Now, when you hold the soldering iron in your hand and depress the trigger, the tip of the gun heats up. Novices uncoil the solder and place it on the hot tip, but that just results in it…
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131330
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After our first kiss,
a team of scientists
scrubbed away the cancer
of your lipstick.
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I don't look like other poets. /
People hardly believe it when I say /
"I write poetry, sometimes. /
During lonely evenings."
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There was a bird on the windowsill, a sparrow, its silhouette backlit by a view of Uptown. She remembered many sparrows during her forced trips to Mercy Hospital...That was all over now...
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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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131322
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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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131333
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cummings starts to sniff, his usual routine. He feigns aloofness while raising one wolfy leg to pee on Eliot's sneakers.
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The entire room seems waiting for me like an octopus behind a closed, chained door. The monk of the lamp knows he will get his daily turn-on if he prays loudly and just enough for it. The favorite chair has my blue dent in its punched…
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131221
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Where are you going, boy who never was?
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131200
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Azure understood now. She felt it there as she remembered what she told Sora after her ordeal with the domed creature.
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An infested, indifferent universe . . .
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131210
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He, an irregular chap,
Was known for his hat with a flap.
Had fleet feet and a very strong back.
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"It is my argument that a pious fraud has been perpetrated so as to subject mankind to the most humiliating of intellectual enslavements."
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Tokarsky and I got chased off an El train by a couple of mean-looking black dudes who looked like they were going to crush us. I let go a spritz of tear gas that I had on me in the train and we ran as it came to a stop at the Morris Street stop. They chas
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She’s new, with the enthusiasm of a new person. And everyone wants the new girl.
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