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At first we thought metadata rich, non-hierarchical, network based, multi-provider filesystems were our future. An arduous journey but well worth the efforts for the beforehand unimaginable user experiences enabled by new technologies that thereupon displaced the…

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I’ve just moved to New York City and, somehow, Scarlett Johansson is at the same party I’m at.

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We floated balloons to my dead uncle in Heaven for closure. I couldn't figure, at age seven, how he was under the ground and in the sky too. Mom touched Dad on the arm. It was Dad's brother. It seemed like Mom was sorry for something…

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like a reflection vanishes

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My vagina invites you to a party Whenever your time frees up Or now, Now would be better

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Her fingers scampered over the table, practicing the deft stitching of the basilar artery.

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About halfway through reading some book that was supposed to be some really deep shit, I decided to write my own book instead.

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say no / to me / and devastate me / and I will take it / as god's will / to drown me / in a vat / of my own / entrails

We Don't Need a Guitar Man

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The courtroom smelled a lot like mold and it was hot as you could imagine. I sweated through my shirt and wondered if he wasn’t dying under his robe. He looked down at me from his bench and I just knew he was going to call me a commie and sentence me to l

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Landmarks

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Play somethin’ solemn, they told me, or somethin’ that sounds like home or the mountains in summer.

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My hand falling...

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Six clocks are brought to a tool shed, behind the house (three black, two white, and one red.)

Grand-Dad

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Grand Dad was born in the time where men of honor were never too far when danger arose, like the phlegm and fevers of an oncoming plague.The oversized house felt stagnate and angry as he closed the heavy solid wooden front door behind him. There was an echo that made…

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I unzip him out of skin. Find what is dark and black inside. Mistake jutting spine for zipper grooves.

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Queens and Kings

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I underline the passages Momma does in her Bible and circle the same words she does, of the oil Samuel uses to anoint David...

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For me, it was that kind of moment. I got to come back. I had been here before and now, well now, I could come back. I had a chance to do it all again, bigger, better and well, just better. I hoped I could remember all that I learned the first time.

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The Fermi Panic

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