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I whispered, “I love you”
and then, “Goodbye”
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126855
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The fear you represent is a real drag. That's all there is to say. But like every other house on the block I have spiders in the basement who are waiting to be brought up into the golden light. These creatures only want to be good at being alive. Instead they are given…
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126833
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Being burned with a branding iron really hurts. Everyone must have voted for the Forge because next thing I knew there was only God on TV
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126832
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He paid the price for being a dick when he tried to write. The Muse did not care for violent behavior.
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126840
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We all wish to partake in great events.
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126888
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Then he said something that really made sense, said he kept a blank check in his back pocket...
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126831
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“The moon is a monk,”
you said.
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126753
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And there on the street
Were a bunch of frantic pigeons
Picking over some discarded
Chicken bones
I mean they were really
Going to town on them
You know, frantic
Like there was no tomorrow
And then I saw it
A real sign of progress
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126700
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Perhaps she’s also a do-gooder. One of those socially conscious, change-the-world type girls complete with a never ending supply of life’s own contagious enthusiasm.
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126741
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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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126785
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The only resolution I ever kept was when I said I wasn't going to create any more resolutions, and now I'm going to break that one.
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126721
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It was that awkward time when one didn’t know if the night’s lover wanted to see you again.
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126754
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There I saw a man
Lowering his head
Close to the plate
And just wolfing down
His cake
And that was all he ate
It was like
Solace
He was enjoying it
So much
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126710
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Believe me, I would run if I could, but there seems to be a low haze of molasses clinging to my ankles.
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126711
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As clever as clean bed sheets
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126711
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I drink the funeral in a dream. I give satisfaction in voice overs.
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126763
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Sorrow fences with fear and questions
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126787
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Did you really think you were going to cure cancer with that poem?
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126764
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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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126631
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the Tate Modern is like a dungeon!
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126620
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That’s not just a
trinket on her finger,
that’s a rock, a fortress,
a castle. No one
can scale those walls
except Joe Sixpack,
slumped beside her
at the airport.
They’re not a match.
I give it
5 years, max.
Not even.
Joe
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126600
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Call it what you may but misfortune, bad luck, disaster, adversity and trials of different calibers can hit us at any time.We are human. We experience the ups and downs of life everyday. Out of a job, lack of money, health insurance and other luxuries that some people…
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126642
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We're alone and besieged / by badness.
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126622
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On the days I wasn’t there, my insides felt like paper-mâché.
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126652
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The bathroom had exposed rusty pipework, A minty lemonade smell, Ice in the urinal, And a wall of stone-cold mirror. She put some lipstick on, but it looked fake under the lint-covered bulb dangling overhead. She wiped off the lipstick but…
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126685
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The thrum and the thrust//
have beaten conviviality out of me.
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126675
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Just a lot of honking and hissing.
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126630
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Most people don't understand what it's like being a pop idol. I am not most people. I am Tincture Shunt, and here I present you with my trajectory to stardom, in case you want to copy it for your own personal use. Unfortunately (for…
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126621
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“Lassie was a hack,” Jim the Wonder Dog says as he looks out over fields of soybeans. “She couldn’t act her way out of a 25 pound bag of Purina Dog Chow."
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I ran down the list of reasons she might be calling. She could be bankrupt, having a mid-life crisis, or maybe had a terminal illness. Either way I was clueless, as I had absolutely no emotional bond with the woman I came out of.
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