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Seems I was in the wrong place, wrong time.
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Woman bites into pearl,
finds baby oyster.
Woman bites baby oyster,
finds baby pearl.
Woman blows on baby pearl,
it begins to grow.
Woman gets excited.
Now we’re getting somewhere,
she says.
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There’s a price / on everything
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Wafting wisps of fondness twinkling
in time with fairy lights pointing out lawns in cities
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It is imperfect,/
eroded by the optics//
of light, space/
and orbital mechanics.
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Frank was about to take the first bite of a chicken salad sandwich.
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Everyone asks that question. The short answer is: he brought it on himself.
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I've written of this and I've written of that, Have scriven as you have it either that or this: But if you strive against the wind when you decide to piss, They say, you'll find up firing against your hat- Like some old Brother who was broiled when…
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She was as beautiful as flowers in a dream
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the moon is coming back now the shadow hovering and shiftingthe clouds a passing shroud I didn't know if I would be patient enough but now the sliver of light is increasing filling in / filling out the circle I am surprised by how much relief I feel there…
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There is a false dawn,
when night still holds sway, but tempered with promise; anticipation.
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Also, our daughter had learned to splash, causing us each time to break into spontaneous renditions of “Splish Splash (I Was Taking a Bath),” which made us not mind so much that we were getting covered in water.
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My dog Alfie and I would get in my van and go out at midnight for a doughnut. Or an éclair. A French cruller, to be exact. Sometimes we would get Blondie's Pizza on Telegraph Avenue near the Berkeley campus, if it got to be too lonely and restless at nigh
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These days I wear a flag pin.
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In the gutter, the paper signs turned back to pulp.
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The mirror can never talk back/
unless corrupted creases of the brain/
and its recombinant physical maladies//
elect to answer...
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—Mazel tov, schmazel tov!
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The doctor told me:
"You have 24 hours
to live.
no more, no less."
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There’s / no crying in poetry!” says Coach / Bukowski
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When I wake up and look to my left, will you be there with me, snoring like an asthmatic bear?
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“Everyone you see is half asleep. And you're on your own, you're in the street.” -John Lennon What we can muster now is a few choice words of humor, but unfortunately that won't show them anything that they haven't seen…
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In the words of that great philosopher Hunter S. Thompson, "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
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"the dark velvet slide of the tongue."
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Some people burn slowWhile others burn fastAnd betweenAll kind of things happen:There's happiness sadnessJoy and angerSicknessThings happenAnd when you are in theWorldThe worlds molds youWith all it elixirs and tempationsThe good timesThen come the wounds and scarsAnd the…
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—Francesco, did you come to bed last night?
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ARROGANT MAGNOLIA, the first to open all, poised ten feet above our fuss. …
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