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The Sum Above

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The mandatory is not / your friend

Pewter Badge

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I never killed a cop before.

My Way

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We were over Casper, Wyoming, when some terrorists tried to take over the airplane. They had concealed weapons.

Optical Delusion

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Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,

A Hole In The Bucket

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In 1978, a computer program became privy to my grandmother's most secret thoughts.

Old Salty

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Cap'n Pepper tries and tries but Old Salty is never happy.

Don't Wash, Don't Tell

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Butch the Labradoodle sets some necessary boundaries.

Miracle Bra for my behind

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Do you want an ass mi Nina Bonita? I buy you jeans that work like a Miracle Bra for your behind.

Mr. Smashface eats fast food at Supermarket # 9

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

{Pulgas}

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Fleas were a constant reminder that humans are food.

Homecoming King

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John Lipkin took a drag off his cigarette and rummaged through his desk drawer looking for pot. There wasn't any. He remembered looking last night, but he looked again now. There wasn't a damn thing, just some stems…

What To Believe

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

Hardaway's Poems Piss Off DC Bigwig

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Gladstone called him a ‘goddam nihilist’--

Invite to a Death

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I'm the joker of the pack in our office, although I think a lot of my humour is too subtle for my colleagues

September Morning

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They were carried out / over shoulders of running soldiers / naked bodies pass

The beautiful young girls from high school

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~true myth zoo spa~

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flash read. have fun *cheers*

Bride and Groom

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He wears an old black tux, shiny at the elbows, and his gray hair has been styled and sprayed into a fragile tornado. On his lap sits a Chihuahua wearing a bridal outfit—veil and all.

Glance

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I saw a former lover today, by complete accident.

And her child

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The mother was happy, though. She was happy because she could make him some soup and then she could feed it to him in bed.

The Grape

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I would be reduced to begging on the streets and hoping for a sign of her in soup lines.

The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 1

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In those days everyone ate poetry for lunch. It was considered essential for your good up-bringing and mental health. We would skip a meal in order to satisfy our hunger for words. To hell with a meal. To hell with dirty politics and meaningless wars on o

There's No Crying in Poetry

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There’s / no crying in poetry!” says Coach / Bukowski

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Update)

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A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.(IMDB synopsis) That's the idea swimming so far as it is in…

Can't You Tell When I Get Lonely?

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“Can't you tell when I get lonely?”, she asks. “No”, I say. It gets awkward because she wants me to know when she gets lonely. I don't give her the attention she wants without realizing it. She moves away and stares at me for…

THE SHIFT

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"leaves &damage, &shifts of shape"

'Introduction' to LETTING IT ALL HANG OUT

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Was Sligo an unfeeling privacy-violator or an uncannily-feeling empath, privy to the deepest longings of those whose lives he came in contact with? [...] Sligo's grave is as silent as these pages ultimately would be if they were left unread.

Bad Attitude

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Start with a long look down the alley, a small hoodied figure turning in.

Lucky Strike

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I like the smoke going in but I like it even more when it's coming out

Waiting for His Wife

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"Dad, I already told you about your wife. She’s not coming."