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are my only real friends. They don't seem to mind my shuffling down the dirty sidewalks without acknowledging their mere scraggly presences like friendly tombstones. They are growing their hair out again. I've noticed that much. We've got a…
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Savvy as a nine-year-old playing poker with high rollers in Las Vegas, that was Paulie. She'd finally thrown Dick Weasel out the night before, but that morning Diana'd shot down their plan of sharing the house in a “man-free”…
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Written within five minutes, being a parody of the artless vacuity of observational 'poetry'(By Tedward Weeney and Seamus Spews) The large wind in the treetop tells the blackbird its own voice. The yellow grainyard resounds to the clodding of my farmer's…
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Oh, gracious mercy, oh...
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it's time for the cold, antiseptic
cloth to briskly remove the evidence.
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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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