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Suddenly something clicked.
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“Gentlemen, how could I go about attracting the KGB?”
Now that got the attention of Boris and Vladimir. Their eyes bulged right out of their heads. They both started huffing and puffing.
“What are you, crazyman or something?” said Boris.
Vla
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Once again there's too much to handle and
no space to process
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You’re finally in a band that can get through a rehearsal without someone strangling someone with an amp cord over creative differences. No one’s in jail, rehab, or MIA from a multi-day booze binge. The group has laid down a few quality tracks that don’t
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"He turns in his bed, and reaches for a body,
like the blind to braille."
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The darkness isn’t evil but invisible/
in the otherwise excellent light of day
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The man went into his backpack and pulled out his book of crossword puzzles. The deluxe edition with fifty percent more puzzles for free. It had been an impulse buy from the bookstore, cost him four…
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Shadows are so admirable in film noir
less so on x-rays and mammograms
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out in space/ platonic forms/ dazzle with/ voluptuous grace
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A large shadow cast overhead as the sound of sirens blared in the distance. People looked up at the white clouds consumed by the pitch black cloud.
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The next thing we knew, the KGB started tailing us everywhere we went. They must have heard about Lenin’s Paintings, was all we could figure. Because, what if they were real?
That night we went out to a pizza place where we saw the worst graffiti in t
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We've come this far. That's all we know. We've watched others reach their abrupt ends. They've given us this exact moment and we've taken it from them, sometimes without thinking. It's time for the next communication. I know what concern is…
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—You're convinced I'm crazy. I'm convinced you're incompetent.
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Perhaps they serve/
a God’s twisted will//
as they accelerate extinctions
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of placing the rope just so; of settling
the veil with care --
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Little rambling soul,/kind guest, friend: leave me laughing,/pallid stiff, and bare.
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...the scream and the face...
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Write a poem in which your father is a dog and you are his leash.
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Write power
like a purring kitten
eyes wide
without an idea of exactly
how small he is.
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Mother’s eyes stared outward in a trance, on her throne, visualizing the world Azure made. Though it was right before her, she could not reach it.
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Ellen and I stepped out into the hall to discuss the situation. Maybe we should make some sort of offer to purchase these paintings, because if it did turn out that they were for real, well, the value could be endless. Think of it. Vladimir Lenin, the pai
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His thoughts drifted to when he was a kid, to the monthly trip to the barber.
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Sorrow fences with fear and questions
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A dying man I'll wake, before the dawn; A dying man I'll wake, before the dawn May come and send me far away to sleep. May, come and send me far away to sleep; Before the dawn I'll wake, a dying man: Come, send me far to sleep, May, and away. …
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—A little blood puts some life into the work, said the old artisan smiling.
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(v 1: I picked up a robin yesterday. It was red and puffed and in the middle of the road in front of the car on the way to the grocery store. I put on the brakes and turned on the flashing red light to signal my stop. I picked the bird up and moved it to the side of the…
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At home I cranked the oven and stuffed both pizzas in there
and when they were ready I ate every crumb of both pies.
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“What does it feel like to run, Thomas?” I yelled across the field. Thomas was so fast. I would never catch up to him. Even if I could run. He was so fast. …
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