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Just after Al snapped the shutter the fucking monkey tried to tear his face off.
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Billy Joel wants to hold my hand.
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19691915
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“Easter’s coming,” my wife says. “Should I dress as a bunny or a chicken?” she asks. She means for the costume party.
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21031412
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At five o’clock in the afternoon, at five o’clock / in the afternoon
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True story: T.S. Eliot introduced Virginia Woolf to new dance steps including the Grizzly Bear and the Chicken Strut.
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What doesn't kill you gives you great material.
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He can’t enlarge the rock—/
can only find its safest distance
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189764
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But who am I kidding. We aren’t in love. Being in love is for high schoolers or middle aged divorcees exploring their sexuality. Our love is real, sweaty, backwards, forwards, angry, trusting. We love as you only can after seeing someone at their best and
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and coughed its grey net over the candle lit world outside. Birds of an arrow sprang into thin air and disappeared over the hills in a quick shortness of zoom-breath-- like a stiffened branch snapping . It's cold. There're …
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God’s hearing aid is missing
And apparently needs an enormous battery
But no one has the
heart to tell Him
because who wants to be
shouting at God?
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She was sick and tired of marriage. She didn't want to be a mother, but now she was.
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It was only when blood began to drip onto the page that he realized he'd been hit.
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141943
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Whatever it is, the night vibe feeds off that disadvantage, nibbles at the desperation of those who come here.
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purely fun,
humane, scientific,
old time religious
experimentation
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Her light blue eyes fixed on a point to our left, past one of the church steeples poking out of the flat, charred ground – like a toothpick protecting a birthday cake from its cellophane ceiling; an untouched bethesda keeping the never-blue sky from crash
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the
unutterable
things of
this
world
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You always liked the color of your nose, raspberry red. It matched the glittery dazzle of your rainbow hair when the neon lights hit it just right, and man did they always hit it just right, the vibrant honey-yellow big-bird frizz and feathers, swaying to and fro as…
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and, once in a rare while,/
actual pearls.
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What would you do today if you knew your time was up
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Anyone thinking they aren’t alone on life’s journey has their head up their ass.
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Yellow Pages season is on us now, and Jimmy's drivin' a contract route. He'll head out to the San Joaquin where they print, and load ‘em in the back of his Tundra with the high side walls until the whole damned rig sags low,
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"I have consulted the Internet," the man remarks, squatting low, sorting through a mountain of tablets. He snags two and stands slowly, confidently, and I realize suddenly that he is Moses. Two iPads, cradled surely in each wrist, glow with lists.
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We got a lotta people ruinin' the public transit experience. Talkin' loud on cell phones, clippin' fingernails, even flossing their teeth.
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Guttering semiotics, The jeremiads of delirium; Drinking lukewarm tea over a late candle Like Hamlet in a power-cut; Affecting his own audience of himself, Hastening soliloquies through gritted sophisms, Withered and spun to intentional…
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i’m trying to remember
don’t all the best apples happen
in September?
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If you get crushed in New York City
that's your own problem.
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If you’re trying to carve wise sayings
for eternity to read
in a newly poured sidewalk
you don’t want to be
struggling for meaning
while the cement is wet.
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Paris is a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
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