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the strength in you i envy/ leaves me naked, sweating in the dust/ while you possess what ethic i pretend to have/ in the face of those who expect from me/ so much more.
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My brother was the catcher, and we were having sex. I was waiting to be scared. In our act, he would swing upside down from the bar, hanging by his knees, his arms extended, and I would fly into his chalky grip.
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92300
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I never thought that I would be
here
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didn't know how to do it
just tried to squeeze on the teats
didn't know I had to grab up on the udder and pull
Unca Ole laughed
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I can’t take my eyes off a tall blonde with green eyes. I catch her eye.
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I’m starting to feel more interested in my savings account.
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"They measured the lobsters and they were short. But like I said, not by much. If they had any sense they’d leave the poor guy alone and go after the big fish.”
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She has dwindled for the better part of a year, staved off her period, breasts and hips like a warrior. Chestnut strands that danced along candy apple cheeks now surrender to metal pins, her bun severe as an old maid's. Her prominent ears…
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The brain taints everything it brings to us/
with its limited apparatus, its precepts,//
all the things it thinks it knows.
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Beautiful, he thinks, as he taps the ash of his cigarette over the balcony, but this is not good enough.
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alright, alright but not so much of a friendly little cigar-chomping companion-like a friendly ghost! That sweeping hair of longed for sleeping only awaits you once you've drowned too …
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Ben was not a happy musician.
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The mouth is peculiar and so are the shoes.
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pluck me from the charred grate
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I need to get in and out, you say.
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Grow.A word.A verb.Germanic.Feel it.Slow.Old.Young.Now I'll tell you how put it on a page:we'll start with the o.Take your pen just so,thin first,from the centerand thick on the up, thin at the topand thick on the down, thin at the low,finish sharply.The r is a…
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The print is not ideal, it's true.
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No matter how tough we make our gun laws, it’s the other goober states that let a dramatist with a lengthy record of prior absurdist plays buy an unregistered weapon at a gun show.
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I arranged all my books before you came, /
so that it appears I read some more than others.
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Johan was telling stories about the occupation. The Germans were stupid, he said.
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There were too many laws but not enough of the kinds she wanted. She wished for the right to go shopping. Then taste rather than disposable income or access to finance could distinguish people.
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Regrets lined behind him like crossties on a railroad track.
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While you can,/
find the beautiful
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They were
obviously having
some secret
beach affair.
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The rain is filling up my shoes,
I can’t see
through my glasses,
Rain all inside me.
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119132
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Once upon a time he'd thought her as cold a fish as her aristocratic husband
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1The Bird King's eggs are subatomic particles created serendipitously by a sneeze in a quantum physicist's dream.Occupying a space between existence and nothingness, reason and madness, broccoli and…
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This little town lost its mill...
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tragically / once upon a time / two people / far away / ...
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I am at a wedding with a new girlfriend. The bride is her old college roommate. I don't really know anyone else here. The wedding is being held at a huge estate, located on the edge of enormous cliffs that overlook the ocean. Despite the danger of this precarious…
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