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The True Price of Bed and a Bath

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So it's me and two other girls...

Thanks, for the Memory

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"So, how did you know my name?" "I read memories." i said

When Not Laughing, Fortuna Only Smiles

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. . . a visitor from the preceding century would have been aghast to the point of vomiting to behold the regard with which pandas were now held almost universally.

The Human Bible

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Fat, religious, full of himself,

Drift

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Dreams & foghorns.

GRACE IN SUFFERING

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What I did I wouldn't call criminal, just stupid. Even my judge, after so many court appointments, didn't understand what had happened. And there's a reason I got out on illegal sentencing but, either way, I paid the better part of a year for it all. I don't want to tell…

Trapping for Poetesses

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So many traps for catching female poets have been invented that it is a rare editor who ever really sees one. H.L. Mencken

Windfall

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It turned out Eel’s brain corrects for imbalance, and he can only feel danger for a moment or two.

140 Words on Solitude and Being Alone

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As a child I drowned myself in the pages of books, and as a writer I prefer to be left alone with my imagination.

The Little Things

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When the world is quiet, all your thoughts demand attention.

Kitsch Pastiche

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Once upon a mind-flight Leary with the tripping became weary Of the psychedelic travel Felt the universe unravel

Conversations

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That won’t kill me, will it? I asked. Maybe, the doctor said.

a supermarket horror story

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stoned,/ i made the mistake/ of walking to the store across the busy street/ to find myself in the middle/ of the pep-up/ for a basketball game/ or something like that.

All drains lead to the sea

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This soil is bereft, with only mocking water below, so catacombed in chalk.

If the Shoe Fits

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I didn’t say to eat your keys and parrots. It was peas and carrots. Idiot!

Radical Middle-Aged Cake Acceptance

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Cake is not the enemy.

Pharaoh's Revenge

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The first intimation that something was afoul was when his computer crashed.

4. After the kiss

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I could still feel you like horseradish / in the hairs in the back / of my nose

Diarrhetic Discharge (w/Edgar Allan Poe)

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That Orndoff! I'd like to shove that pipe of his up his arse.

All is Ready

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I have bathed in patchouli oil and my heavy hair is lustrous from brushing. I am wearing my gold ankle bracelets with the ruby charms that my love gave me when we had been married one year. My robe is fuchsia silk and under it I wear black satin…

Art Is Resilient

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Our revolutionaries Have evolved into gamekeepers

Uncle Ned

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There was this old guy named Ned. He swept floors. No one knew much about him. He'd been around for years sweeping the concrete floors of the hangar-sized buildings that housed the major mechanical service departments at an old amusement park.

I Love a Man Who Whistles

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“Hey! You can’t be whistling on Greyhound,” the bus driver said, looking up in the rearview mirror.

The Fall

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Tuesday is trash day.

Wedding

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It was cold in the church. The Lutherans were freezing to death. The Catholics brought their winter coats.

Counting

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For my father, my best buddy.

Coins

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“Have you ever thought what stars are made of?” “No,” he said. The man nodded seriously. “I hadn’t either. Not until I met the Star Catcher. He told me all the stars in the universe are actually coins. Coins! Big coins. Small coins. Different colors

Phantom head syndrome

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The Bird King suffers from phantom head syndrome. Ever since his decapitation by a critic, he has felt pain where his head used to be. Sometimes it wakes him in the night. It's so excruciating, he fumbles for a saw. But alas! there's nothing to chop off.He's seen every…

Let Me Drown

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Our local low rent ice-based superhero said he’d had enough and would check back in early spring.

He is dying

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His only sibling had passed a few years back and his mother was the only one left of a gaggle of 7 brothers and sisters and their spouses. The turning of the generations, from birth to grave, was always a bit like the tilling of the ancestral soil. A new