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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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It is true that the college dogs spread vermin, reeked and shat on the soccer field...
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They do exist though. They have for centuries and when one comes forward and is vocal and authentic, it pays to give a listen. How to know if they are authentic? They charge nothing, they fear nothing and they merely exist in the world, just as you and I
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He said stuff like
‘Crikey that's a knife',” she said, “it was bad, really
really bad.”
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The first thing Noah did, more or less, was plant a vineyard.
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