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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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137165
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“You look so … distinguished.
My!” she said.
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137132
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If someone were to place a rabbit in her lap right now, there would be nothing she could do to hold onto it. It would leap. Drop. Hie its powerful body elsewhere. At the end of her life she would have nothing to show but a collection of rabbit-shaped empt
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137122
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137143
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That twig looks pretty dead to me,
He will never ever be a man.
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137151
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no rule says an imaginary friend has to be a good one
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137195
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137120
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"Oh, God. What do we say?..."
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137153
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I admit it ... I started writing when I was completely depressed. When I had nothing else to do than just sit back, relax, feel bad and wait until the hurricane slowly passed by (luckily there were few casualties).I thought I was an exception ... but a lot of…
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137132
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A parody of John Ashbery I have been preconditioned likewise by the ligatures of the roof. It has bypassed even the lightning. When I started this essay I (poetics equalling dissemination, like a toilet plug) admired, and I in the book produced…
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137122
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Pictures of war correspondents from The Tribune, and colonial photographs in a fruit crate
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137132
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In this way a section of a marsh or weapons testing range, a forest or corporate landscape is transported into his living room.
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137183
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Our lives are lived backward in memory...
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137000
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137055
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Sometimes the beauty you make wants you to say, aaahhh, and let it go. There are a lot of things floating around, so it's no wonder that some things get sadly lost, like minds,like people, like feelings. It doesn't make anything spin any less. That's what…
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137010
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You are my intergalactic princess / The most beautiful in twelve systems
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137031
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Last night, but not really night, I woke up to a huge clattering crash! I reached for my weapon (wouldn't you like to know) and jumped out of soft and cozy, holding myself in my best "I'm-not-afraid-of-you" stance.
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137000
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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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137033
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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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137001
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It begins with his positioning.
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137040
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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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137020
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Irrational Obligations In honor of National Pi Day Any excuse for a circle, a way to pinch the day. They are calling it something like a celebration only with bigger words and too many numbers to count. We'll have to approximate the amount of joy …
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137010
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I bow my head
and shed the antlers
of past lives
I no longer butt heads
with the universe
but I miss my curse
and can’t do worse
I throw myself in reverse
and rehearse the early scenes
of science and my
full meat diet
that sent
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1370103
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I sit there reading a magazine while the woman clips my claws. From time to time I watch Kim’s face.
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137041
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... and that’s the story of the Polish worker who looks like van Gogh.
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136911
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I had put the child's wagon, which had been red once, back together again. “Honey”, I said, “I found out the garbagemen will pick up concrete this month.” So, I put…
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136911
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On this day, a blinding sky
holds ribbed reams of clouds,
staccato against staggering blue.
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136900
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136912
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Every soul has a shadow.Last night, I saw mine. I saw greed,with his sticky, gnarled fingers,seizing the tablecloth of a grand feast,indifferent(or conveniently oblivious)to his starving loved ones. I saw ingratitude,with her proud, scornful …
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136931
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Since we are heading past the outskirts, we find ourselves with a hidden reserve of valor and ability. What is this ability? It is the way we look now at strange new clouds menacing and waiting. It is also the way we head forth into them and their environ
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