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is this the end of civilization
is this what i've been thinking of
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Winter offers pitting salty sand clouds
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71275
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...a falling forward that is sometimes so material that you get a look at your shoes as you fall past them...
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So what exactly does heaven look like? They asked.
He first found himself floating above clouds before witnessing
“transparent, shimmering beings arced across the sky,
leaving long, streamer-like lines behind them.”
An unknown female companion esc
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The brown grackle chirps/
as she chomps a plump cricket-/
melodious meal.
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71152
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That was when we discovered we could make one shadow jump right through another and come out whole on the other side. Our shadows were indestructible. It was one of those moments of discovery maybe only gallons of pink Chablis could bring on. Or dope.
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It is with great sadness I announce the passing of Ann Bogle on February 28, 2023 after a brief illness. Ann was longtime contributor and editor of these pages and a champion of small press and emerging writers.I knew Ann since the late 1970's when she was an undergraduate…
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Sometimes all that’s/
left is pissing
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71132
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why were ghosts in wry mirrors feeding on hope?
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71021
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It was 1984, that foreboding year, I now
recall. You were in the hospital,
your cat having snagged your nail.
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“I’ve seized a family’s satellite dish, I’ve put a lien on a guy’s blue tick hound–everything,” Suggins says with a laugh.
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For every person who dies alone that way, another twenty try.
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My mouth is orange rind and whiskey, my tongue a cocktail cherry.
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70910
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He lives a simple life, the docks, an occasional woman of questionable morals and brewskis.
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70943
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Thus does time fly and we with it.
Because time flies on the cosmic scale, curious things inevitably occur in local circumstances.
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Conveniently, the vistor had arrived when she was between tasks. It was still difficult for her to believe that it had occurred but she had the tangible proof there in front of her, within reach.
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Our love used to be so artless, /
unstained by a knowingness /
that perceives time in minutes
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Wishes are like beautiful fishing lines Pulled tightly around us. My lungs are Full of them I suppose, hopelessly caught On something rough and deep in all the darkened places. Your smile for Me was one of those, if you must know. This swung…
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70800
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I wrote a million lines of poetry last night.
/ Metaphor after metaphor of your beauty
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having the time of their lives,
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70733
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“What the hell was that?
Is that your take on
The Deer Hunter?”
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(Suddenly, too lazy to pull even one title from his shelves, he thought: if it's now the “Dao De Jing”, shouldn't it also now be the “I Jing”? Alas, he was no translator.)
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We flipped through the pages, filled with drawings Bates had done of himself in full papal regalia; mitre, crozier, the works. Beneath them he’d practiced signing autographs as “Pope Bates I.”
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Alone in Eugene, / I sought out / the solace of olives
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I just can't figure out why nothing terrible happened to me that night. Young, blonde, drunk American girl sitting on a dirty curb in the red light district of Nuevo Laredo, and everyone left me alone ... amazing.
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He was surrounded by bats and stalactites and skeletons greeted him and dead celebrities moaned and neon signs -- props from defunct game shows -- were hung up as far as the eye can see.
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As far as I knew it was just an old man and his wife who lived in this house, but not really. I mean if you had seen what every person on that block had, you would have realized that many lived there, well many beings.
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