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Let’s be honest, you were cheating on your girlfriend, and I would’ve slept with anyone

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Dos Equis

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dos equis ambar sits cool and dark by my side

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Some of the notes allude to how the ineluctable modalities of the visible and audible are transformed by the experience of hanging in a transparent egg half out of a B-17 at 10 thousand feet waiting to be spattered like paint.

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...coming into that bone yard, you just hang a right, go on past La Fontaine, and take a left a bit further on. Jimbo's right up in there.

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Always in a hurry/to spoil your/weekend

What Our Fathers Knew

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Because Your Choices Were Poor

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Foolish boy, you chose your parents poorly-

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like the dome of an immense lamp like blades of grass at the sweep of the scythe like a line of cliffs against a tempestuous tide

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Often, meeting attractive people we pay very little emotion toward them ... Why? It's because we have no common (often the economic in its sense) project of living to bring us together ... When such project exist ... Then, well ... we find people sexy

eclipse

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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…

Simmer Time

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Usually the predawn light means bedtime for wicked guitar players, but not that bloody Sunday.

David and Goliath

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The giant hurled threats and insults. He brandished a knife that was a foot long.

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Scratching into January, 2017

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Follow the money. It seeks/ the lowest of the low and finds them here/ in an embarrassing abundance.

Foster's Landing

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Switchback

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whispered boat

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word boat

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Things Get Fuzzy

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He ran over our elderly neighbor Lenard, but not on purpose, or at least not as far as we could tell; there wasn't any yelling, I mean, and he didn't look happy when he got out of the car, though who could really tell through a bear costume.

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One day, my feet and hands got into an argument. My feet argued that they were superior because they were not only the foundation of my body, but the cause of its mobility. They were modest in size, yet supported and transported an entire body that towered over them.…

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...come come come come...

The Tale of a Fat Ugly Crow on a May Afternoon

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The River Flows

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powerless against the memory of the earth-bank and the river flows, through a susurrus field of a million quills

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for spirits and demons have no life/ but what imagination gives

No Prada, No Burberry, No Gaston Lauvert

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Syllannibal

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"They called him a syllannibal: a person who eats his own words. The only words he ever ate, however, were the ones he had written."