2458 17 9
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“I found a recipe on the net and now my hair smells of pumpkin.”
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1423 9 11
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The brain taints everything it brings to us/
with its limited apparatus, its precepts,//
all the things it thinks it knows.
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1801 19 10
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A constellation appears in the shape of Van Gogh’s missing ear.
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1772 17 8
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"Your mother does sailors," the parrot screeched.
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2428 17 7
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Dear Erin,And people call ME a pussy. Fuck you,The Cunt
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1618 15 9
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We liked the orderly Newtonian/
with its fundamentalist action/
and reaction, its rules
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2060 11 10
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It was when the party hit a lull and a woman wearing too much rouge was going on about her parakeets that Tom decided to set down his bourbon glass and pull out his gun.
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2656 11 8
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The voice in the sand: "If it has soul you must funk it."
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2124 10 10
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the Way that can be mapped leads nowhere.
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1454 17 9
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This will be the century of infinite sadness,/
sadder even than the Twentieth/
with its expansive catalog of horrors.
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1405 17 9
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A woman who is, say, a culinary arts champion or an heiress devoted to literature such as Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman) or Peggy Guggenheim might be able to turn me on, turn me out, turn me around.
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1468 12 10
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"S- E- X -- ever heard of it?"
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3577 7 5
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He was here and then he was gone. He wasn't at my ex-wife's house either. On Tuesday we were at the circus and that's the last I saw him. I jumped into my '68 Beetle, one step above a clown car, and I stopped by The Big Top. The carnies were there, smoking cigarettes and…
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1346 9 10
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Fine gradations of the fractional/
fissure the eggshell whole we crave
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2041 12 10
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by myself next to just one wide-eyed moment of wild blued out ocean. You know the one I mean. I don't want to have to speak to you, or even- alone- to myself. I'd like to be left inside the poem it makes me feel without having to get up and pee every…
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1604 20 9
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feeling empty as the
bottom of a bottle
dry as a bone
in death valley alone
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1681 10 10
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I watch from the cabin window the death of the sun, hear the howl of the new-born storm.
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1369 7 5
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I'm hearing a noise. I can't see it. It's hiding and seems to be coming from the other side of the creek. With boots on I slowly wade across. The water makes its light lapping sounds. Reaching the bank, I search for the noise. It must have a face, suntanned and warm, that I…
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1444 11 10
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1462 9 9
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Me: In my orange hazmat, the one that makes my eyes look intensely blue.Him: His flexi-human-hamster ball. Fun, but a bit informal for a first date, I think.We're outside because doorways are not easy for him. After some impromptu rounds of bumper balls on the square, he…
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1647 14 10
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One by one our friends are kicking the bucket. Let's get together. It's now or never, we figure.
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1893 13 9
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Things don’t happen here, life is so boring in this little Irish town.
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1168 12 8
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My name's Barbara and don't call me Barbie if you want to be my friend.
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1525 16 9
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Have you ever spent twilight in a old pasture?
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1791 15 9
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Love free of independence is a savage, hungry beast
Phantoms grasping, sweating, gasping 'till her mind could not be freed
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1835 18 8
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I always step around his mess...
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2084 14 7
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You know, my mother was afraid that I can no longer resist. She was absolutely right: My four sisters have all passed away before the summer shows its fruit. It was hard "said my mother”, not to see my flowers bloom. I, the calf of my mother,I came…
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1835 13 7
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Purple not rain! I guess Prince left. It is said that Prince owned the aquifer under Jordan, Minnesota, and that he sold it but to whom? And moved to Canada—
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1748 15 9
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At the graveyard, the leaves had been raked into loose array....
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1484 11 10
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Paris is a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
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