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While space and time opened up for us, the ground accelerated its attempts to devour the astronaut. Grasses grew up around his edges. Seeds propagated in the folds of his suit, tendrils found their way into the mysterious holes for the missing hoses that
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After all our morals
And ethics of distrust
Have been ripped out
And discussed
There’s still the Meat Lady
At the end of the day
Standing around
in the midst of the crowd
Handing out her meat
In little morsels
on a toothpick
Af
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often visit me in my room, so quietly, so suddenly, buzzing my head with wonderful, possible sentences. Sometimes I find they've been there radiating all along, children ready to burst out in a sneaky fit of laughter if I move just slightly…
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Lou Ann and Bobby drove in from Slidell and had a small, New Orleans wedding with just a one night honeymoon at the Monteleone because the next morning Bobby had to go. It was barely daylight as Lou Ann kissed him goodbye several times and blew him kisses as his cab pulled…
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They’ve deduced she’s still of sound mind and body. What do they know?
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“If we had more bats we’d have fewer bugs,”
I said. She shrank back into her sweater,
and gave me a look, then a shrug.
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A story about convincing people to do things they don't want to do, written entirely in dialogue; originally published by CHEAP POP.
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I lay on a table in a cold room in one of those little blue gowns that open in back.
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Suddenly there was a crash of thunder, and they raised their eyes for the first time heavenwards. That was the beginning of what we call civilisation. - adapted from Prolegomena to Work in Progress — Stuart GilbertIt's the third year of the third millenium,…
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My first and so far only visit to my homeland of Prague was first described to me by a tourist guidebook, which laid out many of the fundamentals one must follow while travelling there. It was pointed out, for instance, that we would be “unlikely to encou
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Sitting together at Starbucks, we composed a long love letter which we've been mailing back and forth to each other, signing our name upon each receipt and returning it for the last nine months and it has grown to eighty seven pages, barely fitting in a shoe box.
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It is indisputable that poets love roadkill...
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I should have buried him on the saddleback and kept my mouth shut. I'll murder the bastard who did it.
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You ask yourself, how can you be living but dead? It is not possible. Yet it can be and it can be slightly reversible, but realistically, for most people, it is not. Living but dead, is walking in the world of the in-between. Standing with one foot on the
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I have things that I should do
but I will lie abed with you
in homage to our deaths last night.
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Who hasn’t at some point of the day wanted to dredge up everything in your pocket just to see what it is.
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Years ago when the smart of it was as nippy as this one.
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Now your dreams are
headed for the Rhyme or Reason
Convention
where they try to convince you
you can do this
Trying to make sense of
everything
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• Don’t confuse the virtues of bananas with the virtues of banana bread
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We are infused with fear and dread/
of the world we won’t engage/
except through flat screens and remotes,
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israeli flares light gaza/ casting incandescent nudity/ upon jumbled puzzle piece buildings.
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Light slunk in from under a door, but just a sliver.
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dicks, skulls and upside down crosses
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She realised that things you can't prove can be more intimate than the things you know to be true.
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Sitting near her desk, like a dunce cap,
red
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At the conference her boss showed off his knowledge of wines.
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I come up and out of the hole onto a village street in the middle of a parade celebrating the arachnid god.
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I heard the worm
was interested
in the fat robin’s song.
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{ a Triolet }A smile, a wave as I stepped out Into another life altogether ‘Twas little enough to talk about A smile, a wave as I stepped out And O' how after they did shout (Yet now we only talk of weather) A smile, a wave as I stepped out Into another life…
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