1118 5 5
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The walks along the beach/
render brave, meticulous,
taxonomies
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111820
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Mitt looked at his one-time running mate and took a deep breath. He was beginning to think that throwing all of his money and belongings into the ocean and eloping to Key West with Paul Ryan was a bad idea. Paul had turned out to be more needy than a danc
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111797
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We’re heading to a
Poetry reading when my wife
Says “You owe me one”
Coming back from the
Poetry reading, my wife says
“You owe me, big time”
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111721
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Listening to old friends speak the same way, the same things tells me they have been dead a long time. They are in their form of living, their self, there is no new season of growth. I witness each of them continue on the same path because it is familiar
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111711
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We are diminished by our desire
for innocence, and we debase those who
possess it.
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111782
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Alright is alright but alright is a state of mind, right?
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111751
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Every time I look at you there are two dumb mouths that slip between stretch marks.
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1117169
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Unless we see it, probe it,
Name it, star by star, and feel
This awful, tenuous gratitude.
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111702
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There's a whole pack of us, men minted from hot brass and thumbtacks.
Too tough for sensibility's sake.
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111730
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You're trying to attract visitation in a small quarter with pearls in both your lobes. Only half of what you say is true. The red lipstick shines through like a brad on white paper, a voice, soprano. The half I tend to appreciate squanders & squalls. This is the ride…
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111710
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Sometimes I think our gathering is a ritual centered on collective visualization. Other times I feel like I have been physically transported. I am not sure there is a difference.
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111721
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I’d caught a small fish
but there wasn't enough room on the bridge
to reel it in completely
so I carried it hanging from my pole
along the edge of the traffic
A fine black dog joined me
following me into the shack
at the end of the bridg
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1117126
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You
sawed off my wings then
Asked
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111721
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one will become a tobacco king;
another will steal copper plumbing on moonlessnights.
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111632
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Roaming beetles
knitting needles
chopstick counter attack.
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111600
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the dark brown cloaked warden stands on his lofty perch
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1116108
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Once with the lights flickering....
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111621
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Before the new arm, I used to sit outside the players' facility and wonder, in between the throbs of pain pulsing sickly through my temples, how much longer I could be a hockey player.
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111631
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In one section of the map C climbs a staircase.
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111611
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I was told, take him round the back and deal with him.
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111600
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Late last night down at Jim's Saloon
Everyone expected that the last balloon
Would go Boom! The one they all saw coming
And Lady Liberty would send the bad guys running
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111632
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111621
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My friend and I were arranging the things in my closet because we literally had nothing to do but he found himself in my house again, which he described to me like a disease...
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111600
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We're all just meat and atoms who can no more sense into the great beyond than a horse can fly a plane.
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111611
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Periodically I try to vacuum up their eight-legged asses but they hide in the cable drop.
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111673
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Sometimes you want to strike out at me. What is stopping you? There is no stopping you. You know I will not retaliate. Gone is all that I will be to you then.
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111611
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The white moon is dangling
by a thread tonight.
I close my eyes
and listen to it undress.
Your halo fell around your ankles
and you became see-through,
but there’s a vast gulf between being pretty,
and pretty dangerous.
Still, I’ve s
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111621
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Lucien ran through a burning vortex in desperation ignoring the cries of his friend. It was a flux of Satanic majesty. The floodlight of the fire was incredibly grim, but it did not hurt his eyes. Have you ever seen painted glass windows in a cathedral built by the…
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This is Bop even if you think it doesn't sound like that.
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