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The cicadas hissed and chirruped until the air was thick with a noise like mechanical bedsprings bouncing for the 4th of July.
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135811
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On this day, a blinding sky
holds ribbed reams of clouds,
staccato against staggering blue.
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135853
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She is a manifold of temporal flows.
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In my dream I am the showy leaf, and you are the stem, and you are the strength. I am the leaf turning colors, my face flushed, the fine hair at my neck, and there is the deep carnal twisting around your stem that sends me floating to the ceiling over a
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135800
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Anyway, without Mr. Little, my life would have been much more difficult after my father was arrested. It was difficult enough as it was. Mr. Little was my personal hero at a time in my life when I had very few people that I could look up to. The funny
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135821
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The first intimation that something was afoul was when his computer crashed.
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135800
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A decade, at minimum, was how long their notes had transpired.Still, they all knew how it would end.
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135855
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The virgins smirk / //
We got medieval on their asses
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135833
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J., W., and W.’s girlfriend were exploring the nature and mores of homosexual conduct by discussing whether W. would be willing to suck J.’s cock.
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135840
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I became infamous, in certain circles, for what I achieved, maybe more so for what I did not. I invented a dating service for seniors called “Carbon Dating.” I wrote a book called “What Real Estate Did for Me,” which was very brief and to the point. It
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Our trouble decided when the CUNY PhD student, a poet, cried out, “Racination!” during discussion of my poem.
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135800
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Also a thing with bodacious knockers.
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135882
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The sometimes shiver that arrives from awkward silences and the more often cold that comes from midwestern winters.
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1358106
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We do not all love each other for the sake of our shared art, apparently.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO3RAM7-ciU
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135700
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To politicians who think things will stop,
When they finally let slip and drop -
this government of ours we call
The ultimate power of them all.
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135720
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Uncles. Cousins. Enos. No matter how loosely a net is woven, eventually the strands come together again.
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135710
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So what happensTo the VFWIn a global economyAnd the monumentsErected in reverenceAfter the boysWho became menCame back homeTo be fathersThen grandfathersGreat-grandfathersAnd start to fall awayAs the days creep byThat petty paceOf politics as usualFamily DiasporasAnd maybe…
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135711
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In this 7-Eleven at 2AM I can write the saddest lines. /
Among these malcontents and degenerates I am Ovid
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135712
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I was setting up a mattress and a lamp in the balcony of my house because a boy, G., told me he was coming to fuck me.
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135721
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I am beleaguered by duplicity.
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135711
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Next morning the thought crosses my mind of snapping Mom’s neck, making sure she’s dead, and then running down to the sea to drown myself.
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When I bumped my head I almost fell to the ground Not so much stars As flashes of lights That looked like sparklers My mother chasing the dog She never catches it The cat sits on a nearby chair It's head moving as the dog does …
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135700
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Azure analyzed her surroundings. There were potted plants along the walls. It reminded her of the dormitories at Memorial Academy. Each room had a number.
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He followed me through the crowds at Grand Central Station.
Wherever I went, there he was,
half my height, dressed in the characteristic gold and maroon garb,
with a paper cup of coffee in his hand.
He must have sensed something about me.
Th
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135654
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-Hey, life! Nobody answers? WTF?
-Ah life! Nobody answers me. Well, what did I expect?
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135600
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Something like: Answers to questions you might not yet have?
[Answers we will try hard not to provide]
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135676
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They wink at me as if to share/
a cosmic joke whose punch line’s still/
a couple dozen light years out
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135654
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Eroica sprawled among/
the horns and violins
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What does God find abhorrent?
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