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The Poem

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Riding in a pick-up-truck, the radio wailing some 'love em and leave em" country song,

After Detox

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When detox-man drives away, the windows down, the radio playing on the classic rock station (The Eagles), he thinks about moving out of town.

Gabrielle in Arrears

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You should be calling 911

The New Meow

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I'm delighted to report that I've come up with my own school of thought. It's called, "Dress Like a Cat Until You Get What You Want."

Cranshaw on the Road / Chapel Access

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"Why so ornery?" she asked.

The Invisible Corpse Candle

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Her eyes stared wide with panic, her teeth chattered intermittently with impressive intensity, and with her ineffectual stabs at the air she completed the portrait of distracted mania.

Heart

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She drew her hands out of the chest cavity and looked at the clock. ‘Time of death,’ she said.

a night on the f'naut

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with images overflowing with delicate thought scenes with nightmarish wet dreams

What To Believe

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Being simple like this, knowing a thing is done by doing.

The Yellow Butterfly

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Let whoever may read this know: I am an evil man, and I have done evil things.

Amiaivel

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Once upon a time a queen was blessed with twin sons, which she named Nosch and Amiaivel.

Please

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"What I need to wear the ring for," I said to myself, "I already got his last name..."

a microcosm

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The right is empty, waiting to receive the load like a catcher behind home plate.

Time

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Tell Bono I want my seventy bucks back.

a day uptown/a night on the bowery

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in her monestary mission, with her rosary and candles, time holds me here my feet got the travelin' blues but my hands tie old women's bones to my hair

Notel Nobel

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That was before Cohen died. Castro died. Castro Died should be a title by Samuel Beckett. Once I nearly went out to buy a bass clarinet just for the purpose of playing along with Leonard Cohen.

Arcana Magi Memorial - c.5

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Azure became silent. She never thought of her death before, nor thought about actually fighting creatures and saving people’s lives.

Regarding Bill Yarrow’s Assertion that Herrick Was a Voyeur (Poor Julia: Violated, but Immortal)

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the observation, at the end, more/ important than the being there—

Non-Stop Service

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Please direct your attention to the flight attendants as they demonstrate the safety features of this aircraft.

He's Just Not That Into You -Part I

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“Too perfect.” my therapist intervenes in assurance, “You did enough, really. More than anyone else would.” I know the subtext is that I possibly did more than I should. My appointment is coincidentally later that day, after his goodbye letter arrives in

Suzanne

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And I watched, from her warm bed, the curtains dancing in the window

The Spider and the Corpse, Or, The Corpse and the Spider

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The corpse lay silently in his open casket. Dressed in the finest silken suit. Italian. Rubber skin pulled over his bones. Arms folded in eternal prayer.

FREE

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hot, hot

fc1 (bee boo guy/ valio hansolo)

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poon fred / loop ilo/ bussy yubb tree

Curtains

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She wants her mother back and all I can give her is this—over and over. She doesn't want my mouth, wants no kissing anywhere even. Just this. Like this—quiet and rough. Quiet because her stepfather is napping in the bedroom next to…

~true myth zoo spa~

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flash read. have fun *cheers*

Babies

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“Your brain, your brain tries to make sense of things like this, specially life-threatening weird shit, so in my mind the grass was on fire and driving out swarms of invisible bees that were stinging us to death. Invisible killer bees. You don’t shoot be

My Relationship With Reading

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What if I said; I never liked actually reading?

~elephant ink~

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one numberless character, an army of rants marching one by one, sand by sand, we move mountains this way…

Clouds to the Makers

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You'll be gone. I'll be gone. I'd hate to think how it was all for nothing, that all we did was stumble into a pretty big hole of our own making. The best place for a broken heart after all is in your own sweet chest. No one else…