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Wind Calling

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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

Pahk Your Kahma in Hahvahd Yahd

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“Namaste,” I say as I hand the guy his ticket. “The divinity within me salutes the divinity within you. Have a nice freaking day.”

77 Words About Nothing [5-24-2012]

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

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.

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…

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.

Tutorial Frustration

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Incorrigible swine,

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.

Unreality Television

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

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!]

The Man Inside

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

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…

Outing

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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...

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.

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

Man

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

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.

Ai Kitano

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Sick of sight, Ai Kitano constructed glasses by which the wearer was rendered totally blind.

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

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He had to get over the short bridge