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I had a really weird dream last night that I feel compelled to share with someone. I couldn't tell the person it was about, who happened to be lying next to me at the time I had it. I couldn't tell him because I didn't want him to get any ideas. I didn't want him to think I…
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I had a meeting with the editor of a well-known magazine. She said, “I think your paradigm got stuck up your monomyth.” “Oh dear. Is that bad?” “Bad? You want to be a writer, don't you?” “Well, I did. I'm not so sure now.…
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Now, these explosions announced, political bribes and propaganda weren't going to be enough to push things through. There would need to be survival from blunt force trauma and fear tactics, a relentless forward march
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A Picture of the World It's not that there's nothing new, it's all new. That blue color is not the one you remember, but the one you are experiencing, and at the same time, you bring everything with you. Green becomes…
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the swan drives a car ( window down; wing half hanging out ) …
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I'm old enough to be her father.
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The High Priest Psychiatrist at Orwellian Industries Medical Center where I used to work loved to hear himself say the following, to my horror, at every staff meeting: "We psychiatrists prescribe the poisons to the patients and the…
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Harvey C. Hamby was drunk. Usually he held his liquor well, but tonight he was off his form. Stumbling over an ottoman, he landed on the floor in a sodden sprawl. As he fell, his left foot shot out behind him and socked Glenda Steinberg in…
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In a plush leather chair, / high up a shiny skyscraper,
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“This is where we suck the skin off the beasts,” remarks the General, pointing to a small white tube dangling from the ceiling. “We coat the mouthpiece with mushroom sauce, and as soon as they wrap their stinky bulbous lips around it... VROOOP!"
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by Bobbie Ann Mason and Meg Pokrass
at The Nervous Breakdown website:
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/mpokrass/2012/10/tweeting-war-and-peace-with-bobbie-ann-mason/
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A man lives with a woman he loves enough to live with, but not enough to marry and not enough for kids. He knows he could love others enough to marry, enough for kids, but he's not the kind of man to find those women when he's with this woman.Sometimes “love”…
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I'm using a 16mm motion picture camera with sound on film, equipped with a magazine holding six hundred feet, giving me approximately fifteen minutes of continuous shooting. Uzma has changed her cloths again. She's dressed for working in the garden, wearing a white…
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Because we are exceptional,/
our 3000 dead in New York/
exceeds in impact that of 75,000/
burned at Nagasaki,
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A man and a woman argued over the size of the quake. They were sitting on the floor like Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
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My banker said, "We've millions we can spare,
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"Love, against the dying of the light." (An unusual story about George Whitman, former owner of the revered & beloved Shakespeare & Company bookstore in Paris, France.)
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SPECIAL ON THE JEWS “This is disgusting. Woody — shouldn't you be in your room with your homework?” “Now, Hon. Let the boy watch if he wants. This is history. There's a lesson to be…
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Get something cheap and light at Target. Trash hell out of it. Encourage baby to urp up in it.
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B: Write a short story about men for the gym teacher. Write a candle for the century.
A: How do I end it?
B: Write a synopsis.
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Anson Chi/
tried to kill my wife
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A pinprick breaks the black/
and pins the spin of constellations/
around its still point.
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We can breathe with ease poetry into the sundry shades of red burning in the skies over Gaza, perhaps likening them to a pomegranate ripped open. Ripe to write, I can't. I can only watch as you sleep, naked and foetal as you…
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It is certain. The roofs are hats for the houses because you wear a hat in the rain or the snow or even and sometimes especially the sun. The houses are curious. They keep their hats on at night. The downspouts for run-off water are strands of hair such as…
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Voltaire drinks his coffee standing up in front of the microwave and he likes to hold one hand on his chest where his heart is while he drinks. He likes to feel his heartbeat quicken and then he imagines that he is a machine or something mechanical.
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feeling obligated to write/ is like feeling/ obligated to fuck.
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Ian didn't take me seriously until I tugged at my curls and a handful dropped from my head like dead leaves. That got his attention. I was glad he stopped talking then because his words had turned into syrup, arching past me in golden spirals.
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"Every generation is a new generation, isn't it? What's so different about your generation?"
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I'm fucked. No one is going to discover my poems in a locked desk drawer. I do remember how it feels to be knocked out by someone standing next to me in a pretty white dress. This isn't anything you can do anything about.…
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