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In a space capsule he is an astronaut. In his spacesuit he is dressed like chewing gum.
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They say he started the study on February 26, 20—. Ever since that day, no one has seen or heard from him.
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Another run-in with the police happened one night in Elmhurst. I was seeing this girl I'd met in my Shakespeare night class at Elmhurst College. She and I and Andy and a friend of hers, I think, were parked in front of her house, drinking a six pack of beer when her…
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Yeah, okay, so
pigeons are the bums
of the bird world
So what are a flock
of crows working over
a wheat field while
the artist Vincent
is desperately trying to live
with his bleeding ear
or to sell at least
one painting during
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There: you see a woman who has laid hands on the man she walks with. Tomorrow she will kill herself. Let me speak her life. Born alone, without event. Moon, gibbous. Month, Julius, the tail end. A Leo. Many other signs and wonders seen to have been…
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I'm panicking trying to think of the next line in this poem
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When I finish recording this tape, I will bury it under the azaleas in my front lawn. I have left instructions for my attorney that, on the first full moon after my death, he should have Oliver Stone dig it up during the dead of night and deliver it to Ji
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People think being the best-selling author of the Pokey Little Bunny™ series of children’s books is nothing but cream-filled cupcakes, but they’re wrong.
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To understand how and when things have gone wrong, it works best to proceed from the beginning and put them in order.
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My mind fabricated the smell of gunpowder as I pushed down.
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Roaming beetles
knitting needles
chopstick counter attack.
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—mashed potatoes / with emeralds in it—
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In his dreams he was building a house. He wasn't sure if it was in the city or in the country. He wasn't sure. He thought, perhaps, it looked like the city but there seemed to be too many trees.
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The girl went outside her door and stood and stared at the sky.there were clouds in the sky. the girl wore glasses with black framesthe girl stared at the sky some more and put on a bright yellow baseball hatshe sat in a white resin chairthe girl sat quietly and watched the…
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Jerry turned away from the window to face the box on wheels. Its camera would scan his face, looking for the answers.
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Their relationship had proved volatile. The husband had gone missing. The wife had gone dead.
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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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You read your fortune cookie:
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He said I was doing it all wrong
Opened up his ghastly mouth
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We go to the spa on my wife’s day off and get a manipedi. A swarm of little women pounces and works on our fingers and toes.
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you kissed me, once,/ kindergarten, recall--/ behind my ear./ called/ 'bee sting'
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We fall through two feet of clouds and dragons before we land softly on our feet in clover and crab grass.
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This is Bop even if you think it doesn't sound like that.
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As soon as a complication emerges, the obvious choice is to move to another line. But I don't. I can't.
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Ha. “Real damage.” The guy was in the ICU when I woke up in the jail cell. Turns out he was a cop. In a small town. The town where it happened. How I ended up in the state police holding cell, I have no idea. Just lucky, I guess.
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I am—
a plan in progress.
I am motion in motion,
a direction headed in the right direction
by way of an off beaten trail
of misdirection.
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Let's put a cork in this drain.
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