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Are all my words lonely, or nearly departed; decapitated; Visible only from the ankles down, nonchalant? I Get bored. All my words are not paying Strict attention to the television. I get dysfunctional. My words, coincidental though they…
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in moving cars i am small;
in moving cars i am invisible.
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117721
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In the tang of winter warm
and summer cool,
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117753
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And then there was a man pissing in 2 urinals,
going back and forth between them,
saying, “You know how they say
2 heads are better than one?
Well, now I get it!”
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117600
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Waves like lovers gather and crest, crash into
White uncertainty.
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117642
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I had laid my hand down hard upon a long forgotten shard of an old coke bottle.
The cut is deep.
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1176126
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The brown grackle chirps/
as she chomps a plump cricket-/
melodious meal.
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117622
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I give you three words
dripping wet with whatever and you
take them, harbor them...
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117620
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If you were looking for her
She's in the backwoods
grafting your skin
from her thighs
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117600
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"Too many people were presenting themselves in a false light on lunch dates,” she says. “The power ties on the men, the come-you-know-what-me pumps on the women–that’s not what married life is about.”
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117641
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As I looked in her eyes
She told me—
she liked to pull wings off flies.
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117600
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He knew she’d spend the day furiously scrubbing the best she could too, despite the hot house in the middle of a Southern Summer, and despite no matter how hard she tried, the place would always look filthy.
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117543
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You want to be Teilhard de Chardin? You’re getting started way too late.
There’s a better chance you’ll be tomorrow’s Peking Man if I bury you in the cellar.
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it is said to make your manliness last forever
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117500
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Cody had a face, a still and shivering dark basement of a face, one with a negative intake that seemed like it was leaning at a downward angle, as if falling off of itself, or committing suicide, jumping off the edge of the world and leaving behind the su
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117500
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the dark brown cloaked warden stands on his lofty perch
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117510
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If this isn’t Paradise, what is?/ Your own eyes wide with/ the imagination, the knowing,/ the not-knowing of it all.
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117534
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I got my new dog today,
a toy terrier, as advertised,
from an online retailer,
and printed him or her,
I’m not sure which,
because of an inherent glitch
built into the system,
on my new 3-D printer,
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117500
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It was a beautiful spring day and Jeremy was bursting with joy at being alive.
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117533
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At the Rest Home for Silence
We are teenagers
At best
I have to admit
I fell asleep on the bus
On the way to the Rest Home
For Silence
And I woke up
To the noise
Coming from the
Overfilled silence
It's the overfilled silenc
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117594
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then all crawl out from the wreckage
to begin a dance lasts all night
so by morning we'll be tired
surprised we're still upright
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117565
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I’ll take my Christmas carols neat-
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1175107
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don’t ask me to set my goals./
I have none except safe air to breathe,/
a reliable roof,/
something aromatic in the oven.
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117511
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"Did you ever steal any money?" he finally asked.
"Never. It was mostly toasters. There was the odd coffee maker or electric can opener ... but mostly ... toasters."
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117512
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The Sunday sunset slowly simmers the sea.
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117500
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What would people say about me? He was immoderately adrift. Maybe pathologically narcissistic. A shame he dumped Gina, the best he ever did. In essence, a man-child.
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117532
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Chewy is an old dog. His face is mostly white.
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117551
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Every time I look at you there are two dumb mouths that slip between stretch marks.
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117522
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He stood in the doorway of his mother's house. The doorway that separated the living room from the kitchen. Out of habit, he picked at the wallpaper. He had done this for years as a kid. Anytime a corner pulled up, he started tugging. Just a…
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