1206 7 4
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I wonder how many crumbs
he can drop to make a cookie,
whole, so I can relax a little
and throw out the self help books
about how I'm not right in
the motherfucking head,
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The Cheshire grinning/
moon cups itself to capture/
Venus should she fall.
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the Way that can be mapped leads nowhere.
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A tiny story, 55 words, just enough to fit on a . . .
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Anastomose my veins to / yours so we may / share // a dream pooled between us
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1463 9 9
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I don't think dogs like to die with the pack.
The smell of them rotting brings trouble in the wild,
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1034 4 4
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I may have gone
A little soft in the brain
But I swear I still see it
The angel closes the rain
Even God has to refrain
From causing us pain
When the angel closes the rain
So the angel closes the rain
At the end of time
The angel mus
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Let your father stay
through that dinner
when his mistress needed him,
while your mother was on the verge.
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It was a lover’s dark. They had been talking for hours when daylight lost interest and had gone elsewhere for sport.
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1396 13 6
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The three were up early to await the deer with rifles, ammunition, and coffee.
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856 7 5
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"You wantin' one of them kittens? If we can't give 'em away we're gonna drown 'em. We got too many."
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leaves of a season/float into a brook among/bubbles fit to burst.
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1180 10 6
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Here comes my speed dealer
he's riding shotgun in the open
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1350 15 6
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Call it a spell or a prayer or a ritual; it worked.
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1177 5 4
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“You haven’t been listening, have you.”
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The day came shyly up to me like a rolling orange thing. Perhaps of alien origin, but not if the Buddha of our foolish hopeless dreamer inside has anything to say about it. It said, pick me up. I did. It looked like forever on the inviting horizon with trees as…
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135 9 3
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The oranges are dreaming that they have turned to apples.
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1269 12 8
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Trigger warning: casualties of war.
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794 4 3
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The light is always on in reality
The Gelatinous Mass is not something made up
By the Catholic Church
And even though a small deer may have come to the side of the road once
To lick the salt from your wounds
There will definitely be cheap fish
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He peels the garlic while I stir the lentils; he chops the cilantro while I peel kale leaf from stem. Also, the rings. Also, no one is going anywhere.
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1162 2 2
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I recently discovered that the man I'd loved and trusted for twenty years had a secret girlfriend on the side for the past decade. We've parted ways and I'm trying to go on with my life. At about the same time, my friend Judy lost her beloved elderly dog after…
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1240 10 8
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My sister / craves raisons
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1560 6 6
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Everyday the buildings seem to be getting taller and taller.
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837 10 7
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"The sheriff's mother-in-law made the smoothest 'shine in the county."
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834 2 2
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Walking with one giant dog and one tiny one, I didn’t feel at home, but I felt something better.
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Street mime in white face and white gloves, trapped in invisible box. Tip jar empty. Marcel's solo-dancing the tango now, teeth clenching ephemeral rose. Passersby pass him by.
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1043 2 2
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Steve lowers himself onto a lounge chair and lets out a long, overdue sigh. Cliff and Jim, the frickin’ and frackin’ of the built-in pool industry, are making a Burger Chef run while the cement sets.
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1163 13 10
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I need a different storage solution
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1094 4 4
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On our wedding day he carried all of the furniture out of our small bedroom, created a sanctuary.
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1295 13 7
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Can we survive our Y chromosome?
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