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“In other words you're going to lie through your teeth..."
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The Devil’s laugh was the screech of wind. Ignacio Carillo heard Him as he dug the grave that would hold the body of his beloved wife.
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CALENTURE The horizon is marked with the still sculptures of dead gulls; A young man floats off slowly on the…
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At 19 words, the whole piece is a snippet.
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It's a funny thing, watching a Snowman shiver
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Spring Squirrel Spring is here now A dead squirrel in the road Regrettably not Seasonal Surprise Inside warm spring rain Coiled up like Jack in the Box Resides a snow storm Bad Vibrations telephone shouting an…
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I go with the wind, like the smoke of this Marlboro red as it dances among the palm trees.
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Self-possession. He had it. In his arctic white t-shirt; blonde haired, broad shouldered, unburdened. “I will make you love me,” he had said, in a bar.
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Did I refer to Mark Twain’s typewriter as an animal? Did I call it a hyena? I would not say that about Mark Twain’s typewriter.
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Poems reflect their poets. /
Mine: ugly but loved. /
It is just as well.
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had I gotten home without knowing it? well . . .
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I’m on Discord but I don’t know how to do anything.
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He began to chop the powdery substance and separate it into segments.
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Hope is the thing playing checkers
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Millennium jumped strumming lithium gum cumulative outnumber humiliated résumé jumpy instruments
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I survived as a brave thought,
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I barely scraped the sleep out of my eyes when I heard the shrill crying from outside the kitchen window, and I recalled one of the many reasons cats can't be trusted. You see, they're evolutionarily wired to imitate the sound of a crying human baby, so when they…
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Most women simply don’t want damaged goods. That’s a fact I’ve been brought face to face with throughout my life. It's something you can continue crushing your brains against, like an impossibly high hurdle. At first you take the damage without unde
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So we stayed on the train admiring the time.
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I imagined cool, wet clay oozing between my fingers when I'd squeeze a tight fistful.
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You go out on a night with no moon, when all the stars are flush in the sky, when all of everything, even you, is just a shadow moving softly, and I swear, you can hear it, if you listen hard enough. The music. It’s like it’s coming from under the ground.
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Bardan O'Connor stared at himself in the mirror but didn't recognize the image before him. He was pale and looked like death. He tried to psyche himself up for the latest show with a shot of Irish whiskey. He slapped himself hard in the face. "Get it together man." The…
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Our ragged wits, ragged minds, after acting out all, imitating all honey-like tunes, air song, excellence of song, true flower of the world. So the sun has some of its honey wintered away, to bring it into contact with such a human voice as yours.
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We’re on The Worm. I dread the part where the train goes under the bay. I hold my breath until we safely emerge.
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Eat the Body/
Drink the Blood/
Perfect the sacrifice,
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They’re coming now. Thousands of them. Black wings, antennas, spindly legs.
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She connects to you
via snarling vines
& worm-woven tunnels.
Drops Roman numerals
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—Can you handle a threesome? said Isabella.
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In the end they talked a lot, shared what they could, both seemingly trying to rekindle something that was no longer hot, and yet they could not let go of each other. Year after year would prove that. Right then, just then, it seemed that the physical par
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