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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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119885
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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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125866
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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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98044
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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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Whistler pounded a nuanced nail,
into our inferior foreheads.
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135944
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The last of your tenuous septum dissolves when you press the nozzle of the neti pot against it.
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106332
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The shadows hang fast on the downs this day: And I hang like the darkness, over heath and down; Since the air there is clearer than the clouds, men say, And I'm lost in the country, I shall turn to town. If the heather is restless, then the fete is …
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After each piece cancelled the other
the generals folded up their checkerboards,
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I would fly drones with hydrochloric acid sprays/
over their squadrons and watch the disfigurement/
begin. I love disfigurement...
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The creatures were thief-walking...
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my fingers vibrate magnetic/
a humming void/
where my brain was
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19. You never know yourself till you know the dust. 51. Treasures are the ligatures between our wants and love. 33. Truth is able to turn one's stomach.
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—Francesco, I wish you would give up smoking, said Michiko.
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