770 6 5
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Villon, get the hell outta here!
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To stop the world from explodingLike Krypton. It has to be.Like purple flowers we're there on Burnt battlefields. It raises its flag, Too, and continues the march towardThe dreaming sun in spite ofAll the smoke and ash thisWorld has to offer. Our…
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The catchy tune and cloying lyrics/
nonetheless etch their patterns
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PhD's in remorse. Babes without eyes. Presbyterian church-goers baked in their pies. Miss prim-and-propers stranded on meadows. Men rescuing cats then queuing for medals. I did not write this, I swear I did not write this. Saurian…
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988 4 1
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Describe my origami, the shape of a gun or a limp dick, or maybe a flower.
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1006 7 6
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For decades the land the village sat on had switched its allegiance between two countries.
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It was time to go sit outside in the sunlight with the gang of trust-funders, just to see what was new in the world of high finance and falling stock prices. “So, what's happening with the economy in China?” I asked. And they just stared at me as if I had
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"We're practicing," she signs, "for an earthquake."
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1005 12 6
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"You gonna be old before you're old," my father had told her.
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—Michiko, are you allergic to cats?
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991 0 0
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Emi paced back and forth, fixing her jacket out of nervousness. The cool breeze crawled around her skin and she shivered.
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The instructor moved over to the whiteboard and wrote in big block letters “FOOTBALL” and then crossed it out. “You should just never treat your newborn like a football. That means no passing it or punting it.
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Extrapolate, interpolate/
to add imaginary flesh//
to fragmentary bones.
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Conjuring white five-pointed stars. Irreproachable as Winter.Consonant with a new moon. Rising like an anchor.Not one to walk behind. No destinies touch your charities.None signal your transparencies. Shedding words like skin. Cantillating…
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What happens to a town when all of its songbirds go on strike?
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Even word dancers need rest.
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You first hear about the wildfire on the old kitchen radio.
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Not to sound too ridiculous, but Hurt was giving me the hurt, and it felt good.
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We draw a treasure map in the sandwait for the waves to wash it awayI ask you not to leave me stranded hereIf I'm bound for hell, I don't want to be left behindThe sun breaks through the edge of infinityspills over the line, soaking the sky…
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1219 15 12
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A farm girl raised on fresh eggs and weather forecasts...
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201 0 0
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String, the matriarchal skiesover iron pastures,cyanide and honey. So silent stay the locusts,what mourning there callsto we who shy from sleep? Summer snow here hesitates,for a second still,not for any age. And still is alwaysstill, as the rain is,but the darkness ever…
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there was no mess she couldn’t manage, / no chaos she couldn’t tame.
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The window washer started saving pigeons whose feet were wrapped in fine black thread, the result, he informed me, of picking through trash bins. They are very intelligent, he went on to explain. (Right, trash bins, I thought to myself.) People tend to av
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1698 21 17
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How to not be a redneck? Basically, it is a matter of volume, ancestor worship, respect for the truth and a command of the English language.
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She was dressed to seduce one man: Francesco Martinelli.
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"... A set of vertebrae disintegrate and a woman falls face first into her dinner plate."
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... “All power is just behind your belly. Look. Knot of belt – just in front of navel – navel is eye of chi.” ...
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