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This was not a good sign, comforting gestures from strangers were bad omens.
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129023
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The weather, mid-sixties now,
will take its toll on
this singular voice.
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129010
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When I was a boy and just out of seminary school, I went to a Doors concert and heard Jim Morrison sing his song ‘Soft Parade’ – it changed my life.
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129000
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The glamour of living in the Rebuilt Engine Capital of the World is meaningless to the young boys who roam its crowded streets after school, desperately looking for something to take their minds off their homework.
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129052
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lift my love and be lifted
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Listening too much to the night, with its whistles, bright lights of luminescent bursts like leaves on fire, or the raised ear of a cow in the purple mist, or the curled tail of a pig foraging in the night.
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129010
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Something is clearly wrong with them and we're supposed to socialize them.
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129010
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There's one graveyard for the part-timers and another for the full-timers. Ours is a little nicer, but we're still all going to hell. Do you remember St. Petersburg? No, you're memory's not that good.
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129022
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I keep the book when the lessons are done, go through the pages Momma skipped over...
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129053
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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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129054
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I suspect I’ll make the right decision.
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129011
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He is sleek with hearts and I see a different name etched onto each one.
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129042
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Up to the loft we went, shedding clothes all the way. No one is home, but the place smells like the fresh cookies my mom had made before she left. It's dark and my lips hit his…
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129041
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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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129050
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Bitter the sun when it is in Hades
High fans meaning nothing keep the heat down
but the nitre keeps burning
So glows the gloss and high sheen on the skin
Foreheads exhibit thought
though the eyes are crossed
and at night, butterflies i
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128920
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He sat behind her in Honors English, each day studying everything about her.......
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128953
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POETRY IS DEGENERACY / IS A DISGUSTING HABIT
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1289136
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I tell people that we leave out food for the creatures to appease the skunk gods.
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128942
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He saw in her something fierce and wild
and gently led her to
his open palm...
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128910
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Duffy struck an adversarial tone from the outset, offering up a first poem about improper expenses submitted by members of Parliament that ruffled feathers across party lines.
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128900
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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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128900
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an island hidden in the sound holds treasure
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They pull up to the curbside and he jumps out
to shake the hands in that familiar men’s
grasp/shake they do when saluting each other.
If that isn’t his daughter it should be, the one
sitting in his car, with her door wide open.
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128953
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They borrowed birds from the trees
And forced me to sing along with them
You could say they made my heart burn
But we all know some of that was fake
It was a direct route
From sleep walking
To sleep shopping
To this
I guess I lived a
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128953
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In the neon light and barroom shadows,
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128922
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“It's not him,” Kelly says. “I think it might be,” says her Mom. The three of us are sitting on the long sofa facing the wall which is one …
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128900
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Antique pens better allow an old soul to express what needs expressing.
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128920
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Speaking in tongues
untranslatable,
they move in experimental spacesuits,
uneasy in the other's gravity.
(To say nothing of the difficulty of dancing.)
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A thin line separated her lips, like something sketched with a pencil.
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