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The Exhaustion of Dreams

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I like it best when I wake up And the wild rain of dreaming ends.

Love Letter From a Content Writer

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This was supposed to be a love letter written by a content writer, then it just got weird.

13. spring makeout haiku

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tangerine mouthfeel

Romance

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Gerald and I have had our share of problems. Like I mentioned before, his infatuation with the Third Reich has become something of a sticking point.

Billy Strayhorn: A Short, Gay and Lush Life of Beauty

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“I don't have any position for you,” Ellington told Strayhorn. “You'll do whatever you feel like doing.”

Cow & Fly

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If I can eat a cow...

TV Eye

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the world’s biggest poser fags

That's all, folks...

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I’m supposed to be writing poems but it’s Saturday morning and I’m watching cartoons.

My Wife

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My wife thinks I should be committed.

The Silence of the Library

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I don't mind the Silence of the Lambs so much. It's the silence of the library That bothers me.

Artist's Statement: Stepbrother

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Mark Reep is that stepbrother you had a thing for, the one who turned you onto Steve Vai, Stoli.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 66

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Jack Krackenthorpe, Director-General of MI-5, sat alone drinking tea in Lee Ho Fook, a third-rate Chinese restaurant in Soho a mile from his Curzon Street office.

Mon in the forest: a fragment

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Mon wakes up surrounded by trees. The light is grey, the trunks black.How long have I slept? he wonders.He doesn't know which way to walk. In every direction, the same prospect of trees. He looks up at a blank sky. No sign even of the sun.***He starts walking. Slowly,…

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.