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Everyone asks that question. The short answer is: he brought it on himself.
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He played real good
But never looked
At no one
Strong guitar
Weak knees
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The story will starve. It will crawl up your throat to get the cracker.
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She stuffed the stars down her stockings
and left;
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Sally was bathing Homeless Hope in her bathtub when the phone rang in the kitchen.
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You know, my mother was afraid that I can no longer resist. She was absolutely right: My four sisters have all passed away before the summer shows its fruit. It was hard "said my mother”, not to see my flowers bloom. I, the calf of my mother,I came…
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Trent’s had many phases: Madonna, Bette, leather, water sports, rollerblading, haiku, chicken queen, rice queen, muscle queen, daddy. But religion? This is new.
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There's only one road out of here. It goes straight north for a while, then starts veering off toward the west. You and Horace Greeley can get all dreamy-eyed if you want, but I know which side of the river the Egyptians buried their dead on.
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The Bond Trader begins his morning with coffee and a hit of LSD.
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(originally appeared in Lit Up)http://litupmagazine.wordpress.com/poetry/rusty-barnes/Remind me never to call youagain after you get home late,for the familiar fear of the deadbolt noise,the shifty creak of your linoleum floor,the way you throw your jacket overthe sofa and…
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They giggled at me when they thought I was asleep, giggled at the size of my balls, which had never been a problem before her. Said it was because of my tiny balls that we only had two children.
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No one knows that, while the ex-Area 51 guy delivered his rant, Art Bell left the booth for a Diet Coke.
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I hear the slightly scratched voice of Joan Baez coming from
the record player singing about the junipers in the pale moonlight,
applause erupting like hailstone on a corrugated iron roof.
I am singing back through the bedroom wall,
wishing the
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As I fed Puff, I thought about the nightmare Lily shared with me that morning. She dreamed Puff had a hole in his throat and all his blood squirted out until he got as small and skinny as a deflated baloon.
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it ate her and then I was next in line
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‘In terms of relationship, I am your Father – my name is the Emperor’.
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I’ve never liked birds. There’s something smug about the way they look at us, we prisoners of gravity, something self-congratulatory in their songs. Maybe I’m just projecting my own feelings about being stuck on the ground, attributing attitudes t
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We were young, she said, it was all in front of us. We should never have settled for this.
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Don’t eat your lunch here
For this is where the monsters sit.
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The morbidity of red ink is almost entirely lost on the playfulness of Snoopy stationary. But I boldly pressed on with my darkest thoughts to strengthen the effort of my offbeat creative exercise.
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How much more attuned he was when surrounded by forest, consigning meaning to each tiny sound.
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When I was eight years old, I stepped into / a snow bank in Pennsylvania and sank / in over my head
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When I squint at her from across the table I can see the waveforms created by her carrier signal.
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Love heals. Lovers know this from the start, Yet they may not know with certainty What love is. Not that it matters especially When they find the magic within the power Of unfolding lust, Of redemption, Of unmitigated joy. There's a mutual…
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Can you see me dying? 'Not quite',
Said Mummy, 'because it happens
Very slowly all the time.
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He was entirely guilty of what he had done and wanted that to be acknowledged and understood by the arresting officer.
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Like Prince said one time, parties aren't meant to last. Guys who don't get the message are guys who die by the inch.
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He was here and then he was gone. He wasn't at my ex-wife's house either. On Tuesday we were at the circus and that's the last I saw him. I jumped into my '68 Beetle, one step above a clown car, and I stopped by The Big Top. The carnies were there, smoking cigarettes and…
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We're each other's inside out. (100 words)
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Born in 1954, I identify as a Baby Boomer. But what does that mean, really? Who exactly are we Boomers? And how does the world see us? I decided to perform a quick Google Search and find out. I typed in the phrase “Boomers Are…” Here's…
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