1808 11 7
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The revolution. It found me, and I didn’t even get blown by the bomb.
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180853
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leave a trail of potential weapons dropped from your shaking hands. you must always make it easy for him to follow.
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1808147
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a question that (never) left
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180610
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Not that Dick Cheney gave one rusty rat's ass about what the UN might want. Fuck those poop countries!
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180611
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He ignored his scalded scrotum and listened intently. The music was beautiful beyond all physical pleasure or pain. The end of the piece gave him a deeper understanding of the expression 'la petite mort'.
While he was still recovering, the next track b
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180531
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Hipster-neutral dressed simulacra-person offers a glance and a wave, sudden as a ping-pong serve, designed to crowd your space and "pal" you but I dodge it — I'm practiced at this.
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1805137
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It will be a beautiful, luminous, rollicking, transcendent book, the manuscript smudged with tomato sauce and tears.
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18043621
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The young boy picks up a coin that has rolled to his feet. It is warm, too warm considering the cold air streaming around him.
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180482
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"Michael has had no drink, no cigarette, no illicit drug and very little illicit sex since September 14, 1989."
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180454
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i am wire i am wiredi am soaking fucking tiredi am sorry i am coldi am so fucking unsoldi am endlessi am statici am past lost time fanatici am wounded i am seethingi am bothered angry leaving.i am metal i am wateri am sister fucking daughteri am nothing i am lazyi am…
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180411
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The orange sky melts away.
Shadows fall and twist in the wind. I’m on patrol with three of my buds, there to retrieve the body of a fallen comrade, Bill’s body, we’re told. They got him, used him, then dumped his body in a ditch and said, “He
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180300
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“Regard this inkblot,” the Psych says to Worker 168. “What do you see?” Worker 168, a thin young women wearing overalls, peers at the inkblot. “I see a beautiful summer day,” she says. “A young woman, wearing a flowing dress, sits…
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18033526
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On Friday nights I'm not there.
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180333
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The woman’s face bulges on one side to signify that she is eating.
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18023324
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your mania for sentences / has dried up your heart
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18022111
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“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
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180142
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The first band I was ever in was called the Coming Cunts. Coming wasn’t spelled with a “u” because we thought the phrase would come off too transgressive.
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180130
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They always referred to her as the possum woman back home. She scoured the streets just as the sun fell into deep slumber behind the sentinel, sun tanned shoulders of the mountains encircling small town anywhere.
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1801138
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(one of my early works: an image-text collage, animated in flash.)
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18004111
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He drove down there in his truck the second time. Didn't want to get anywhere near that snooty car of hers.
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179999
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Arthur farts. Pandemonium. Miss O'Kelly shouts, “Quiet!” 32 nine year-olds freeze. “Close your books, fold your hands on your desk, put your heads down.” Obedience. Silence. Until…
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179900
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A few people bristled and looked at Jim, but since he was avoiding their gaze, they had no choice but to return their attention to their own table and pretend to pay attention to the conversation they previously had been pretending to pay attention to.
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17993119
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the mighty mountains sighed, and the wide seas heaved
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17981110
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1. Allowance
2. Tooth fairy
3. JFK coin savings bank in clear plastic beveled skyscraper tower
4. Ben Franklin iron coin bank
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17983215
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Maybe the thing is over by now. They have gathered up all the pictures and mementos of our dad’s life and hauled them away.
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17981511
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During war, as in any terrible time of upheaval, burials are merely quick words and a scattering of dirt, if the dead are lucky.
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179776
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Soon the entire sky load of constellations
was carried across the bumpy fields
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17971515
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What happens in heaven stays in heaven.
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179732
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Homegirl wanted someone to love her so much they could suicide together.
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17962620
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He boarded the wrong plane. (Hey, it could happen. Maybe not after 9/11, but certainly before)
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