1086 8 5
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The next/
may be the lucky one,/
undiscovered all these years.
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1086 0 0
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I didn't much care for the graveyard anymore now that so many people I knew where layin' in it.
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1086 0 0
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I would like to land youLike a paper airplane,Take you home to mom. I like your mom &, sheWants to sleep in the sameBed as me. Call it odd. I give you a head nodin the museum, we speakin code. Call it news.I have the blues. Nobodydoes it like you do, to me,for us, in…
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1085 7 3
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No harp now hails, / no wood sings mirth, no good hawk / swoops through the hall, no swift steed / paws dirt in the castle-yard. Woeful death / has emptied earth of an ancient race.
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1085 6 2
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Somewhere in the tenth dimension
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1085 8 6
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When I asked her about her husband, she laughed.
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1085 12 9
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The sirens didn’t eat the sailors
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1085 5 1
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The irony is that Smart's work of self-abnegation has surpassed that of her erotic master; George Barker is largely forgotten now, while the reputation of Smart's one work of genius seems secure.
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1085 0 0
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Her through the phone line, a pause, a hold in her voice. Mom. The things we miss as adults, the turns of phrase, the little pauses. The in between of conversations are opportunities are avenues, five lane highways where we can be…
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1085 0 0
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How long to make something pretty?
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1084 1 1
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1084 2 2
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“Oh, where are you going to, O tow-haired rover?” Though my sight turns nowhere homeward, and my mouth's run numb, I can hear a leaflet sifting through the walls of clover; Though I stay, I ‘m going forth and o'er to Camelot, come- On a four…
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1084 0 0
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I drove around the city that evening, beyond lonely. What was I to do? My friends were gone! I hit the nearest bar and ordered myself a strong drink of concentrated Oros. The barman was a tad gobsmacked, but he saw the dismay in my eyes. After filling him
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1084 3 3
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Forgive the earth that’s
got a hold on you.
Forgive the trees.
Forgive yourself,
you were
damaged goods.
Therefore,
quit looking for the
expected.
Look instead
at the unknown
as a fact.
Describe it.
Use great detail.
And
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1084 1 0
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My stepmother called me an amoral virgin during our latest "disagreement."
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1083 0 0
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1083 1 0
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They’re friends, him and Sissy and Raul, you know, and live upstairs from Asa and he went up there. He kept texting me saying, B here all night, follow u 2 airport. Yelled down through the floor. Real crazy shit.
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1083 5 5
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Wait for it. It's not the end of the world, it's the end of certain things. It's not that the sky is falling, it's that the coral reefs are dead or dying. I don't know how the ravaged trees have managed to survive this long with us breathing…
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1083 6 4
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Her tits were perfect
But came with a white picket fence
Around them
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1083 4 2
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Wound up taking smiling lessons
Six days in a row
But they didn’t take
All the people in my class
They were so fake
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1083 0 0
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Uproot everything, a muddy hole when done
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a sixteen year old girl
Denim
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1083 0 0
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"Great! Great. I got your message . . . yeah, it’s a little long. It’s 140 *words*, not characters . . . "
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1082 4 0
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Has anyone reached inside your eyes lately? Has anyone searched for your soul as it floated near the ceiling of the past? Has anyone told you they needed you to touch them, to lie down beside them and breathe, just breathe, and live wherever it is that ma
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1082 9 3
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Can anyone remember what the Great American dream was?
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1082 0 0
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It's late it's early love youfuck me the difference isin the garage boxes sitbehind me in the trunklike passengers beside melike pedestrians in frontof me I choose our directionwhat stays what comes whatis what and how did I end upin the garage in the first placein the…
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1082 3 2
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For the kid in me who fell
head over heels
all the way down
the stars,
I wonder where you are
now.
Slack is harder to
cut than
you might think,
I have learned.
And assigning the middle finger its true purpose
keeps me pretty bus
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1082 4 3
|
What if it was all cut and calculated.
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1081 0 0
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Check the sweet lunar springs that we are still bathing in. The swelling in the genitals there. Check to make sure we are ripe, and in season. It’s our way of being willing, strong under the sweet icy waters, with that fertility that is derived from you
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1081 1 1
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a poem that unwrapped itself so casually I tucked it under my tongue, just to make sure
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