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Bring Me His Head

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Just bring me his head, that cerebral kiln of hot, ruddy verbiage and cadence.

Found Poem

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The waters rose / on the earth

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.

Mr. Smashface eats fast food at Supermarket # 9

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“Now God,” Mr. Smashface calls me out by name.

Wings

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The trouble began in October, when Ava, an embittered receptionist who worked at a small museum housed in a five-story Westside brownstone, discovered that the floors were littered with enormous grey feathers

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.

Gabrielle in Arrears

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You should be calling 911

Cranshaw on the Road / Chapel Access

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"Why so ornery?" she asked.

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

The Death App

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The phone owner pre-writes his or her dying words! The app stores them and releases them at the moment of his death!

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—

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

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*

Non-Stop Service

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

~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…

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

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?