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So lie there like a sodden Brussel Sprout. Leave your paramour to thrash about in vain.
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Jerry peered out into the dark landscape with no fear left.
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"[A]ppointed an official supplier of watches for the Ministry of Defence of the Soviet Union in 1965."
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Watching himself dissolve comes with no sense of meaning. It is simply what it is. He finds that curious.
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My first and so far only visit to my homeland of Prague was first described to me by a tourist guidebook, which laid out many of the fundamentals one must follow while travelling there. It was pointed out, for instance, that we would be “unlikely to enc
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a few Hershey's Kisses tucked in with the note
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...the room was filled
with a brightness
and a breeze,
making you think
you were up in
the clouds.
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The little Lady and I drove down to New Orleans to take in the Mardi Gras festivities we’d read so much about.
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Communism
Capitalism
Gism or Gysm, either way
Avoid anything with an Ism
Catholicism
Botulism
Socialism
Skepticism
If its got an Ism in it
Avoid it, okay?
(Advice for our newborn daughter)
Avoidalism is okay
Though
So you c
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I felt that love could
not be paid for or else could
never be paid for enough.
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Now how do you feel about that,
My future graverobber friend?
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I stroll out to the front lawn, and find myself against the sea of grass, painted daubs within the frame of a distilled rock. My ears attuned to the starlets warbling on the twisted branches of the lone tree, flock of wings that find subtlety and shine in the rapture…
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My real parents lived about 200 miles in the other direction from where we came. But long ago I determined they were too real.
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Now your dreams are
headed for the Rhyme or Reason
Convention
where they try to convince you
you can do this
Trying to make sense of
everything
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And how the stars in your eyes exploited you. And the pollen-bearing moon shows its sex, and the years open their cards and splay them out on the table for all to see. And you come home from all the nipples of your Trojan Wars like Ulysses, and lie down
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The source of things has broken open and that is why everything is around and about. I keep trying to tell you that but you don't believe it. No worries. If you are self-actualized and going in a routine, well, such is well enough. But I am telling you that I…
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In the mirror an owl staring you in the face once again,/a fraught fragment of life’s puzzle. But you pretend it’s. . . .
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On the train, with a bag full of books, All by the same person. That's what writing is. With each shudder bump my Head lags behind, and my eyes follow While the wandering shaky straight line Moves…
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For every Ruben Studdard, there are ten Mick Jaggers and, considered merely in terms of avoirdupois, the two sides of that scale would probably balance.
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I invented a game called Church & State
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the Blue Ridge Mountains were entangled in their usual mist, but the early morning sky looked good
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Researchers have successfully used Viagra, the male erectile dysfunction drug, to treat jet lag in hamsters. Reuters
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I was a reasonable two year old. I truly believe this to be the case. My memories are somewhat vague I will confess. My perception may be tainted by time and my spongy, misshapen Id, but everything I know matches with everything I have been told and it leads me to this…I…
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The rocks are hot along the East RiverBelow hazy skies sent from Jersey Traffic.Pigeons peck at pieces of detritus,Walking calmly by pedestrians passingThrough the park during their allotted lunchHour. A girl with a strange frame —As if her ribs fused with her hips…
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In the morning that same girl I’d seen gave me a tangerine...
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I try to keep myself from weeping.
We are all actors in a bad dream,
that doesn’t go away in the morning
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“This is when things pick up with the ‘stuffies,’” says Sergeant Jim Hampy of the Vice Squad. “They lie low during the summer, then come back when cold and flu season starts.”
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He said hopping trains don't get you out the pot, it only gets you to the other side. But whatever soup you're swimming in, you'll still be swimming in it.
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On Monday, May 7, 2018, at the age of 67, I had a stroke.
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there are monsters in my bed
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