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The pen point sits motionless on the paper...
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128633
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This world is always at least as strange as it seems, but usually far more strange, so many non-repeatable phenomena . . . .
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128697
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the pressure from my lungs threatened to burst my eardrums.
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128610
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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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128641
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We call this game the end of the world...
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128664
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He peels the garlic while I stir the lentils; he chops the cilantro while I peel kale leaf from stem. Also, the rings. Also, no one is going anywhere.
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128641
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Monkey Business
Low Ceiling
Wagging Tongues
Guest Sweet
Murphy’s Law
Kinda Hot
Stopit!
Freedom Ring
Lumpy Oatmeal
Better Not
Butter Up
Grumpy Umpire
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128644
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But in 1991 Carmen developed a heroin habit and was forced to sell her powder blue, convertible Mercedes 500SL...
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128555
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The man who will lead you can be nothing
if not already found underneath the
light-heartedness of heaven, (dawn)
if not under the light-heartedness
of snow.
He would have to have happiness
already sewn into his soul.
He bears no burdens
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128596
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" No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing."--T.S. EliotI think, okay now I know, the poem's starting to wear off. But I'm alive, at least…
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128520
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As we follow the trail and things snap beneath our feet, I tell myself that the snapped things take pleasure, find purpose even, in the sounds they make with my soles.
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128555
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right/rite:
Your touch smooth as impulse/
Swaying my mind
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128596
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Sonia banks on hidden things in the minds of other people, whereas I bank on what I know.
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128577
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often visit me in my room, so quietly, so suddenly, buzzing my head with wonderful, possible sentences. Sometimes I find they've been there radiating all along, children ready to burst out in a sneaky fit of laughter if I move just slightly…
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128522
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Let your father stay
through that dinner
when his mistress needed him,
while your mother was on the verge.
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128511
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He is sleek with hearts and I see a different name etched onto each one.
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128543
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128431
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This was not a good sign, comforting gestures from strangers were bad omens.
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128400
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Love is easy when all is going well, but it is one of life’s profound, humbling lessons that few people love you enough to wipe your butt.
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128432
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His thoughts drifted to when he was a kid, to the monthly trip to the barber.
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128400
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-Serves you right, you double agent bitch, spat Arris.
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128400
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How do you do my name is Luigi and I am the Duke of Abruzzi. I love bubbles, strawberries, and sheets drying in the wind and sunlight. Hobbies include bank robbery, kidnapping, and extortion. As you can see, the streets…
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128422
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“Miss Brown had spent the morning (was it just this morning? Or another?) purchasing parsnips and leafy green vegetables from the local grocers, when she was overcome by a wave of nausea. The world went black and she awoke in a windowless, doorless room.
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128472
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"The tundra was as cold and barren as Mother Theresa's womb."
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128422
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I keep the book when the lessons are done, go through the pages Momma skipped over...
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1284108
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128401
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I felt my words reach out and try to grab him by the heart. They missed.
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128410
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The lace fell through the fingers, wrinkled and nimble they had become too used to avoiding the finite objects in life which needed attention. The white cotton sat loosely on her shoulders, the collar exposed the skin which had become dry and her shoulder
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128400
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When the lore of the land could no longer hold the minds of men, they turned their eyes to places where they expected to find no other gaze.
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128421
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Tonight’s concert was called Desert.
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