1981 12 6
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I watch as my character falls lifelessly to the ground. I press the square button and I am instantly revived.
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1750199
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They line the bar beside me.
Talking about themselves and estranged children,
while rubbing necks and wrists,
searching for the pulse.
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12672110
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I approached him slowly. His voice was soft and raspy. He said, "Kneel down my son, I've been expecting you."
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17211211
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fun fact: a doll's legs will twitch
while being scalped
but only for just a little bit
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1861239
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Fred, who by that point had already wanted to call Jimmy "Jim," talked a river. Jimmy, who had already called her Freddy, took a mojo bag from his back pants pocket and asked her to write something that he could put inside.
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What a beautiful Thing / Urine is
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I stomped up the steps clearing my shoes of snow. I was wearing my Rooskie fur hat with the ear flaps, and I kept it on when I went inside.
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13691810
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In what appears to have been a coordinated, coast-to-coast attack, country clubs across America were attacked last night with firebombs and heavy contaminations of herbicides.
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18211710
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When I squint at her from across the table I can see the waveforms created by her carrier signal.
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12671610
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Shadows are so admirable in film noir
less so on x-rays and mammograms
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1577159
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“Phennias Jessup is his name. That’s his death’s head scroll, an hourglass, bats, spirals and angel’s wings on either side of the top part of the stone. "
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1953157
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Now he took his guitar in hand, and at once he felt a strange fiery sensation rise from the soles of his feet, to the palms of his hands, to the tips of his fingers: the Duende. It was that mystical force poets can sense, and no philosopher can explain.
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Oh to be young and vigorous.
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13522010
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I invited Van Gogh over for some drinks and a chat. I'm talking about Vincent.
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There will always be some
who misread the dance
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14951211
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What would you do today if you knew your time was up
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12472110
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The fly comes in against my will/
and hers. She would prefer/
the wider world with its piles of shit
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I loved without marriage and the men loved without divorce and we loved a twenty-four-year-old eating and how gracious she shone over a tame bottle of beer.
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“What are you doing, Maestro?"
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12851011
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She left knives and hot pots with handles akimbo. Like a guardian angel, he turned them in. Like an ungrateful Eve, she turned them back out.
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15701211
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Everything would've been copasetic except about the time we got down there they put the turkey in the fryer..
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At some point, indifference//
will swallow the small gasps./
The appalling will become the norm.
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I will not tell you that your anger is wrong, child.
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1454912
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Control and decorum. Manners. Practice such to protect yourself and others.
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a human hand/
looks sadly/
naked now
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...skinny love, skinned and thinned weak broth love...
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Of only there were more like you,
I wouldn't be changing careers.
And my drawings would still be in magazines,
instead of on strange people's rears.
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12611610
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They teach that emotional pain is physical pain, culture pain is science pain, but they cannot test for the absence of these synaptic conclusions. I will say, if you can test me and find something missing then you can supplement me for the missing thing.
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