1449 8 6
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She cut me adrift
On an iceberg of words
And words melt
As you know
Looks like we may have
Gone out on the limb
A little too far without
A toe-hold on Reality
Doesn’t it?
But I saw the headlines:
Cows Bound for Slaughterhouse Make
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2080 8 6
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“Mules don’t like to dive, Esther.”
“I said maybe, Hugh. Maybe.”
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1557 6 5
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He stops smiling and only
says he loves me when prompted,
as if asking me to pass the salt
for his inner peace as it tastes too bland.
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1189 14 9
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the Blue Ridge Mountains were entangled in their usual mist, but the early morning sky looked good
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1465 2 3
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945 1 0
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[insert short snippet of text]
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1832 12 9
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If you find the place they forgot to bomb send me a hot pink postcard. The planet is only so big. We're already dipping our heels into the waters without wanting to become true believers, miserable followers. The bedtime stories will have to…
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1557 5 4
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vampires seem not to be victims of drought . . .
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1647 7 4
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I went to the lake,to our spot. there were daffodils there.i smiled at that, then cried a little.you want to hear something funny?they scare me. they are so, so yellow.they scream caution.I almost keep walking, but the sun is out, and I am…
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1196 13 8
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bones and shuttered windows
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1431 9 6
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Wind was a sorry excuse for force
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1376 4 2
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III. Through wheelwind crypts of mystery, through…
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1735 14 7
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Bones consolidate with age. The fleshy/
bits of body follow by wrinkling and/
spreading outward, appearing to expand.
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2081 12 8
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On the usefulness of hands.
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1990 6 3
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Damn, I joke with myself, who was the fucking idiot that bought this cheap bottle of red wine?
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1183 12 6
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1957 10 9
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poets can kill, or at least they once could:/
perhaps poems tamed us, if they are any good.
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1503 7 3
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At last, we learn if Blow has the cojones to fight.
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1626 8 5
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1782 20 13
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2787 15 13
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and all the trees are holding/their limbs up in prayer/and rain is mating with soil
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929 1 1
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“Emma,” I said, “will you quit staring?
What about the meatpacker’s hope for his daughter?”
I asked. “Have you even thought about that?”
“Once you get off the moon, maybe,” she said
“Honestly, after so much lamb and schwarma
I could go for a
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1279 0 0
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Kenichi the boar arrived from the forest with the other elders. The police officers stepped back, awed by these large nature creatures.
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1189 2 1
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2008 12 10
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Christ walks the streets of Venice,/has long since become a regular . . .
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1578 9 7
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This is a nice illusion, here with you. The world Is meant to fill your eyes. You remind me of Everything right now. This is a nice illusion, here with You. It's all morning light. The wind playing with your Hair lifts my spirits, too. Seagulls…
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1600 7 4
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It starts on the Fallopian Speedway
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1384 8 7
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In the quiet dark, fathers reappear.
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1995 22 12
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The drinking will continue/
until morale improves
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1440 11 9
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One night while in rehab I had a dream that I worked as a violin maker in Salzburg.
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