1230 0 0
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I wrinkled my face up
in the glare and warmth of the sun.
I baked easy in the hovering heat
and my spot-speckled skin ate
up the rays and swallowed deeply.
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"Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore. You may not see me tomorrow."--Bob DylanThey're writing poems, but not for me. Guess I'll write one for my own. For nobody that I know now. It's a pretty lonely world for someone who sings, not you, not with…
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1230 2 1
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How does Bandie feel about snakes? This is my thought. What good is a serpent without venom?
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I do that now. And I shiver. My mom's eyes don't seem to have any expression. They look lifeless. Her eyes look...
dead.
Stop it, Alison, I tell myself. You're being stupid.
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1229 6 5
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If you want to be a writer, just write stuff.
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1229 2 2
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The rain falls soft after a hard weekend.
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1229 1 1
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Trenches coated with man-gruel laced the earth.
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1229 4 1
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She sees her first husband on the bathroom floor, ingrained in the wood.
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The will to make/
remains
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I'm staying in swinging all night
Hell not just all night but every night
I can possibly sink my teeth into
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1229 9 6
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Captain Nemo never died./
He cruises all the seven seas/
below the waves in Nautilus 2,
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1229 1 0
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I think of particles exploding, coming back together like some physics experiment I don’t know the name for. “Large Hadron Collider,” you say. But that’s not what I mean.
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The urban-abused Chevy looked older than its seven years.
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What can I say about the Internet It's one of the best inventions since the TV set It's a place you can do research and shop A place where you can sell everything from shoes to stock You can go to rooms and chat And meet some nice people or some that seem…
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1228 12 6
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I could have a minor stroke.
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Hey Sledge!
Yo.
Did you know Socrates hated the idea of writing thoughts down? He said it weakened the memory…made us lazy.
Say wha?
That's why he never wrote a book. The only way we know about him is through his student Plato's writing. St
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I am from slow diagnoses, impatience and parents skeptical of New York City doctors. I am from tall buildings, yogurt shakes, and envy for my brother's asthma machine. I am from here, stay away from there, don't get too close, be careful at the edge, the…
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1228 4 3
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I'm looking for the perfect/passage, a safe, sound/jettison to now.
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Handsome are the houses,effigies in synthetic stucco: prosperity divinedbehind parted walls. Behold the ersatz simplicityof the residential subdivision, contrived construction inline and line and line. …
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1228 0 0
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That is then and the devil reigns in the here and now.
Tonight I am the barfly and tomorrow I die.
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I leave the 29
to go after the 1
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The way I figure it, mom wasn't worth a shit. I'd cry when she hit me but she'd just keep pounding. When I was seven, she burned a hole in my back. It happened one day at the fair. We were walking around. She didn't have any money so all we could do was walk. I had…
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1228 0 0
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Made sense then, should have written it down - But I fell back to sleep instead
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1228 5 4
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After all our morals
And ethics of distrust
Have been ripped out
And discussed
There’s still the Meat Lady
At the end of the day
Standing around
in the midst of the crowd
Handing out her meat
In little morsels
on a toothpick
Af
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You
sawed off my wings then
Asked
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Tread acres and acres of aches
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1227 3 0
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She turned on the television. The newscaster was her husband. She changed the channel. Her husband interviewing her husband. She changed the channel. A baseball game. Her husband pitched to her husband who popped a fly ball which was caught by her husband
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I hope my blonde down still beats in your heart, and the black crescent curved under, you will remember, and I would move toward your window where my own heart lay in a dish, with the thick valley lifting.
Remember, I crossed and uncrossed my legs f
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Rains came again and wore away at their flesh, revealing bone as white and sharp as sharks’ teeth.
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He chose her for the way she could, Eyes closed, nose to the air, Find her way North. North was where the wind stopped And held them in its grip, safe. Broken. He chose her for the way, fur against Her collar, she could coax seal…
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