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another distance

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only after you slipped away entirely

London, The Ungodly Hour

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2am

LLC

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The formula is fucked.

The Despotic Elephant

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An elephant with fascist tendencies,And various exotic dependancies,Kept his eye on,That there King Lion,Frustrated by his monarchic propensities.He made plans to over-throw,Thinking the Lion's popularity low,But he was discovered,When his habits were uncovered,Which was…

Trope City

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If the pen travels over a sheet of paper, it is not long before a metaphor appears. A fast, beautiful metaphor like friendship, or deformity. Think of the pen as a penis and the ink as semen. I just sit and laugh. Time impregnates an opportunity and a lon

Futurist

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What will become/ of the resource-sucking poor

Phantom

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There is an obstacle, as if truth has a place of its own. This is the phantom where my roommate turns off her headlights Upstate, while we’re singing: No more, No more, stay as you are.

Banger in the Hanger

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song

Opposites Attract

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It was the same table they met and fell in love.

Treasure Hunting Brings Sunnis, Shiites Together

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Muslim factions are getting a helping hand to bridge the gap that has divided Shiites from Sunnis since Mohammed died--a new version of the Peace Corps that uses recreational metal detection to build friendship.

Testament Part 4 of 6

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We once saw giants in the clouds and in/ connected points of stars, and named/ them, gods. We placed them in their high-halled villas,/ on the mountaintop, to game and frolic

Life As a Beach

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Life is a beach, not an enormous ashtry.

Paradise Within

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On the back porch of the world, the sun kisses my laughter, Giving me the silent strength to separate before from the after. Misunderstood soil shyly strikes up a conversation. And I engage my soul, lost in aimless contemplation. …

Florence, of Irvine

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she said, point blank, “Can you help me? I need a lover, and a friend.” “I can be both,” I said. I don’t know, I just opened my mouth and out it flew. You don’t even stop to think what you might be saying at a moment like that. I mean, she knew I was s

The Last Thing

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The last thing I remember is falling below the water, lungs filling with liquid.

You leave me

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laying with you, thinking with you, breathing with you

The End

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"Tell me what you remember."

white lights

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the little white lights i see mean many different things to me

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there are nights when you're all alonein the darkwhere the only lightis the glow of the computer screenand words can't seem the scratchthe surface of your skulland bit by bitthe sentences, phrases, and lettersattached to your synapsesdrownin your subconscious

Rib Songs

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A thrum of imminent sentience-

Uncertainty Principle

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Aleister Crowley walks in and all of a sudden the bar's filled with angels and demons and pagan things. Wood nymphs and stuff like that. Wittgenstein, to his credit, keeps cool. He just stands over there next to the dart machine, pointing at things and naming them. Like…

79 AD

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No CNN to sing obliteration,/ only Pliny the Younger/ to scratch what fell

Villon, Stop Following Me Around!

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Villon, get the hell outta here!

Kicking Out the Enjambs

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I can be iambic when I want to / be!

Transmitter/Receiver

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Valerie had purchased a new cell phone in late 2007, and, say a few months afterwards, in the beginning of 2008 a demon briefly took up residence in it. She had just returned home from running a few errands, and set her phone down on her desk. She had been focusing on…

Fire

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She left the bathroom and slammed the bedroom door. He heard the lock close.

Proceed here to read some of my work

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Eucalyptus

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It had all been for the children, hadn´t it?

Resurrection

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The superhero is out there in the fields, discovering herself.

God Works Out of A Home Office

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with binoculars neighbor reads screen text: