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Two Drunken Elves Don't Know a Good Hobbit When They See One

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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…

Ghost Dance

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Outside the lattice of snow suspended in the air comes with traces of the glitter that was in her hair.

gravelortian part 19

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Uproot everything, a muddy hole when done

Monaco Memories

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Back then he raced, grinding gears and skimming the edges of death.

porcelain

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And then, like all those nights before, she just fell asleep seducing me.

Trick Horse

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The trick rider arches

Oneiric

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- Of or relating to dreams

The People

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living in the cross current lawn-care worlds don't give a whit about the so called deeper things. They don't have to scrape and you can't make them go to the river to see a sunset. They've got all their bonafide luxuries in a smart little…

Here I Am

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The paper in his typewriter

Jukebox

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Once a psychologist told me a story

Coins

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I was reading The Transmission of Doubt by Adi Da, and since it was just shy of five hundred pages, I had become tired and needed air. It was funny because Eglington Square Mall had only one floor and was more like a mini mall than anything, with a beer store on…

Quantum Mechanics

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It seems a little solipsistic/ but may indeed be evidence of God// given its mystery and caprice.

Untitled

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I've always been a sucker for a pretty face. It's unreasonable sometimes. Yesterday, in the middle of nowhere was a house that might have seen better days in the dustbowl of depression era Oklahoma. Two Australian Shepherds launched from the rickety porch. It was clear…

One Brief Moment

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I have sat aside and entertained the coveted feelings of what was not in my hands. Only briefly, a moment shared of hidden secrets and joy. But of and between us, I cannot say that this moment is a considerable spur-still I desire…

Ink

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Somewhere in the tenth dimension

lepidoptera

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The little butterfly struggled against the wind. As little butterflies sometimes do. Tossed and turned around by relentless, uncaring gusts. The little butterfly would make progress, but then be pushed back. Tantalizing close to where she was heading. A…

Fruit Flies

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Bite an apple and watch them come, God only knows wherefrom.

The Small of Her Back

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The small of her back, where the downy hair stands upright like wheat in the summer light.

Launch Day

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the echo of the hull's first contact with the water will pull the past through the present and the present into the past.

Relationship Status

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I would use your towel,

Morning Concerto

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the continuous racket, a buzz saw trumpet

Cut His Finger Playing Air Guitar

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How long to make something pretty?

the rest of sleep

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peripheral dreams fall out from the head / the body squirms then burrows abed: / “have you had a good life? you now have less! / —led a hard life instead? you soon will be gone!”

Pirate

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When I got out I didn't buya new suit of clothes, stepinto a bar, or bargainfor an hour with a whore.I walked from McGee Streetover to Russell and wonderedif Bus 16 still went out of its wayto loop around the traffic knotat the shopping mall. It'd drop you thereif you had…

the custodial cats of the fulcrum of memory + three

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“the calendar of my future was in there!”/ yes: all tomorrows belong to the dead cats,/ their decisions relinquish one day per day.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 49

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Besotted by an overload of scotch, Ben’s brain barely alerted him to loud knocking at his door.

Lavender Blur

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Donna and I get out of the car...

My Brief Career as Sloganeer for HAP

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I needed a job. They needed a writer without humanistic moral qualms to create slogans for the Human Annihilation Project

Rib Songs

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A thrum of imminent sentience-

Smiling Lessons

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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