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Four ships anchor
Far off shore
Chains slip
Beneath the swell.
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70922
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You walked into the dream world
That divides us from each other
And removed your clothes
And there was no specific language
For orgasm there
It was all multilingual
They were white and fluffy like new clouds
Like notes written on the bars
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70921
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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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709116
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is this the end of civilization
is this what i've been thinking of
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708106
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I lack the intellect, discipline,
and faith in anything
but our ultimate erasure.
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70821
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Benny and Sylvia rolled apart, still laughing, caught up in the magic. They always laughed afterward her cheeks always dark red, apples ripe for picking. A little backwards he thought since her apples had already been picked. Even better, he had picked them and it…
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70813
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"Find the part where you need closure." said She.
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707102
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For every person who dies alone that way, another twenty try.
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70633
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My mouth is orange rind and whiskey, my tongue a cocktail cherry.
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70665
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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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70610
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He lives a simple life, the docks, an occasional woman of questionable morals and brewskis.
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70652
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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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70675
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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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70521
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70543
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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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70400
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A survey by "You & Your Wedding" magazine has determined that one in five British brides now requires her bridesmaids to sign contracts regulating their behavior and appearance.
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70400
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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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70420
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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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70450
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Alone in Eugene, / I sought out / the solace of olives
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70410
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Our love used to be so artless, /
unstained by a knowingness /
that perceives time in minutes
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70454
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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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70400
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I wrote a million lines of poetry last night.
/ Metaphor after metaphor of your beauty
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70454
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"Why bother?" Her companion muttered something not dissimilar.
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70400
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having the time of their lives,
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70365
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For PearlSo radiantly a threat to themare you, so radiantly a threatyou present, my dear, but between usthere is still that unspoken pact; justone more song, please. So radiantlyyou fill their cups with the beauty ofleaves and grapes. So radiantly yoursmall reassuring smile…
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70233
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“What the hell was that?
Is that your take on
The Deer Hunter?”
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7021010
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He steered to the roadside and answered her question before she could ask.
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70230
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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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70200
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Hello, writers, readers, friends, discerner's of subtlety, freedom fighters for truth, emotional fairness and proper punctuation. I am soliciting your feedback on my answering machine message. I want this to be an answering machine announcement to audio-book…
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