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It's possible I was having an acid flashback or some kind of semi-conscious when I opened the door of #3.
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As I lean over the chrome rail and look at the floor on the street level of the mall, I ask myself a question. If I was to fall, I wonder if it would be better to land and lie there with my eyes open or closed. Closed, I decide, would make me look like I was at peace, open…
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(For Dancer and Guitar) …
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This no man's island I'm perched high above isn't always so beautiful to the casual beholder of newly printed maps. Oh don't go and get your clouds all wrong. Puffed or thin, everything I say I believe in is a real feeling, until the music dies…
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Tombstones are only granite symbols of a man’s life, Gus thought as he changed lanes. Children, they were the ultimate epitaph.
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[THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN EDITED FOR CONTENT, AND TO RUN IN THE TIME ALLOTTED.]
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The three of us traveled seven hours that day and Al traveled as far in the service of finding the right tool for his writing.
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in time there is nothing more important for meto write than this line. It isn't defined in the way you'd like perhaps, but it doesn't matter because it will be true, and you will be true, and I will be the message you get. Some signal has…
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“I’m surprised you haven’t fucked yourself to death, too,” he added, “given your record.”
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I was good-looking, marketable and ambitious. And that never hurt anyone cracking it big ...
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I sprinkle seaweed over the water and all twelve rise to feed. Two of them went down the hole but knew to come up. A toilet has mouths and caverns, not a bad place at all for fish.
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“You wanna fight.”
And I say yes.
And he says –
“First, we gotta make out.”
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Somehow I always had to sit behind him. I remember because he had a constellation of skin tags on his neck. I thought about drawing stars on him; I thought about creating a new galaxy I would rule. I should have been learning math instead. I still can’t
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Called in sick at work for a week straight when I first met Tony.
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"Absolutely. I get better at it all the time." he confidently replies. He reminds me that it was all her idea. They were online friends when she suggested it. "She loves it." he tells me again, but I think of her sad eyes as she walked upstairs to tend to
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it's the very words that are the problem
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It came up heads so he is going first. He puts on a condom and gets in
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…Professor Wumbat begins.
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I envisioned bound feet of ancient Asian women who wore embroidered slippers that hid grotesque disfigurements.
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“Now God,” Mr. Smashface calls me out by name.
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I am under the rain. Under. The. Rain.The rain comes after me. Beats me. I wait for the boom of thunder, fork of lightning. In the rain, I am afraid. In the rain, I don't know where I am going. In the rain, I am fucking ridiculous.I try to outrun the rain. My shoes sink…
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My tongue is clicking.
I want to act out.
I want an unprofessional bargain.
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"kissing her with every muscle in my neck."
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I want crazy at my funeral. I want clowns, a petting zoo, fireworks, craps tables, male and female strippers, and a three-person band composed of old men wearing striped vests, black pants, and straw hats: one plays a banjo, another on tuba, and…
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His worst nightmare had come true. He wasn't wearing green and all of the other kids were.
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Out here in nearly nowhere I met this man. About him I know something something, and no one can tell me otherwise.
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Sophie is a cat. I tell you this upfront so as not to get you all wound up about moral angst, Nazi's or a mother's love.
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I suppose the lazy trees would have a thing or two to say about love
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