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On the Deeper Slants of the Universe

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Everything makes sense.

77 Words About Nothing [5-24-2012]

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Alright is alright but alright is a state of mind, right?

The Tale of a Fat Ugly Crow on a May Afternoon

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a fat crow rapturously caws over its good fortune... not a morsel left on the street, not even a bloodstain

We the Wild Men

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There's a whole pack of us, men minted from hot brass and thumbtacks. Too tough for sensibility's sake.

Agora

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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.

Dream of the Feast

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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

A Whole

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You sawed off my wings then Asked

Still Photographs

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one will become a tobacco king; another will steal copper plumbing on moonlessnights.

Edward Ogle the Fifth

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Roaming beetles knitting needles chopstick counter attack.

The Watcher

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the dark brown cloaked warden stands on his lofty perch

Violent Limb Part 1

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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.

Section

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In one section of the map C climbs a staircase.

Just a Kiss

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We are diminished by our desire for innocence, and we debase those who possess it.

The Squirm

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[DON'T FORGET TO PARTY!]

They Don't Get to Say Everything

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The world hasn't ended. Your part in it is still ongoing. The going on world hasn't winked out. Every possibility is still out there. In there, out there, it doesn't matter where you are. The here and now claims you for its only tribe. They only want someone to tell them…

Fortune Favours

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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.

Submission

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Periodically I try to vacuum up their eight-legged asses but they hide in the cable drop.

Pearls

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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…

Our Dreams Were Their Feathers

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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

Summer Bop & Some Are Not

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This is Bop even if you think it doesn't sound like that.

Bird's Eye View

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seven birds on the wire turn in unison to the right

Tutorial Frustration

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Incorrigible swine,

Man

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There’s not enough time because we come back to the things we never learn and forget them.

Unreality Television

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I was told, take him round the back and deal with him.

Mr. Bourgeois Drowns His Sorrows

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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

Now

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I'm looking for the perfect/passage, a safe, sound/jettison to now.

The Man Inside

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...her facial twitches, gasps and whines, her moments of trapped silence.

The Sadness of Being On Line and (Bonus Extra!) The Driver

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He had to get over the short bridge

What He Wanted

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a fun little piece for all to enjoy, not just the ladies

FULL NEST

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Every time I look at you there are two dumb mouths that slip between stretch marks.