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Other pathways are more satisfactory. They are more closely attuned to music of the other world. Even so, the heat eventually burns them up.
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130900
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Last time I saw the American Dream was Tuesday, down at the Unemployment Office. He was looking pretty worn out, as if being unemployed for over a year was finally getting to him.
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130900
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130922
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I keep the book when the lessons are done, go through the pages Momma skipped over...
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130974
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130911
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never have i wanted/ to stay in one place long,/ flight inspired to escape/ existential ennui--
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130910
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Me leaving is not the confirmation of all your fears. It is not. It's because of them.
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130920
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With some of these guys it was like propping a kid on a training-wheel bike, then steering the kid down the street til he figured out what to do next. Tricks would come into the bar. Roanne had a smile for all but the dregs…
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130900
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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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1309129
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The gulls/
have somehow mastered the art//
of avoiding the nooses of six-pack/
plastic rings
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130853
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POETRY IS DEGENERACY / IS A DISGUSTING HABIT
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130820
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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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1308128
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My name's Barbara and don't call me Barbie if you want to be my friend.
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130821
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It was in the good and strange middle spring and the rain kept announcing itself on the doorsteps and the railings of the town. As it bounced off of infrastructure and the top of eighteen wheeled trucks, rather than die little deaths, the drops found their way into the…
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130853
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In the neon light and barroom shadows,
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130875
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One day, Dasha confessed to Igor that she had an incurable illness: Purple emptiness.
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130700
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Last week I heard that there is a new horror movie out about Abe Lincoln, with the plot of the film involving the tallest of presidents hunting down vampire bats with his axe while suspending habeas corpus, writing lame speeches about the freedom of man, restoring the…
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130721
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I saw blood. The walls of the bar were completely covered in red shag carpeting. Had I been thrown back in time to the Seventies? It felt as if I had entered Hell itself. No, this was not Hell. This was the Aryan-Brotherhood's version of the movie Shaft. I…
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130730
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I turn the corner and come face to face with Ed, who's stark naked at the kitchen sink. He chugs a glass of hot tap water from a measuring cup and belches loudly. “Good morning,” he says, as he pisses in the sink. “I drink 6 cups of hot tap…
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130741
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This time is different. The dream doesn’t continue with endless walking.
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130700
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Ben woke in a black mood. His head was ready to explode and his throat was raw
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130700
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They are kind of cool though I’ll admit…pretty types with perfect angles and poise and judicial daddies and shade tree homes, holding their books preciously against their tight bodies as if they’re into academics or something.
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130753
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His eyes begin to glisten like hot green wax pooling around the
wick
of a
pretty little candle.
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130722
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for Tracy ThornYou don't need a song about fixed stars, you needa reason to be glad stars are here. Themoon's always been around, but not always like the friend you want,until now. Don't throw it all away becauseyou are too sad to care. You've come into your own. Allthings…
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130731
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And the urban sprawl doesn’t hesitate. All around me, I taste the aftermath of bricks, dust and dirt, freshly laid concrete slabs.
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130731
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But I sense a tremor in your soul as well, young friend, a yearning of some sorts.
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130700
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After going to the garage and moving at least 4000 boxes of junk we found the coat rack. We wrestled it up the stairs to my room. I wasn't much help, but Dad was cool about it. I think he was just happy I liked the suit.
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130741
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We call this game the end of the world...
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130722
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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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130754
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I don't have to show you how to fly. I don't even know who you are still possibly trying to be in this crazy grounded world. But the words make us family. I can't help that or what you might do with that public tweet tweet…
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