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There are things we must not say.
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Only scotch and cheap champagne/
retain their reliable flavors.
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A starved hunchbacked figure covered in blanket gently steers a one eyed dog along with him. A four legged shadow serving as his longtime companion against the all-consuming vacuum of the universe. A friend for all times.A thin scar runs from his cheekbone to…
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It's the little things that trip us
up: a small hole in a level field,
an innocuous root in a well-trod
path, a disinclined sidewalk...
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Cafés just aren´t cool anymore
unless they boast walls of exposed brick, pipes,
half a chair nailed to the ceiling,
mis-matched furniture back-breakingly uncomfortable.
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when the mirror cracks
my eyes won't cry
it's a perfectly
respectable (romance)
between her and i
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I don't need to be toldhow beautiful you are.I'm reminded everytime I open my eyes.What I want to know iswhere you have gone. Whyhas it taken you solong to return? But Iknow the answer. You aresomewhere fighting for yourlife. It's what we all doin our own way. I…
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Julia liked her shoes. They were made of suede. Blue. With a low platform sole. A small size for small feet. Julia was eight. They weren't school shoes; parties and special outings only. They had been a Christmas present from Aunty Molly. The box had been wrapped in red…
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rheumy eyes wink, gnarled hands pantomime
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It was all about the war.
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“I have a theory,” she said on their first date, which was at an Indian restaurant where the music was a lovely singsong but the chef seemed enraged as he clapped a ball of dough between his hands, then threw it into the flames. And her date, whom she…
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They were playing chess with body parts of children they had sacrificed to God.
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It’s important to sound
Human, I know
To get fragile
Near your
Mother
I myself
Get glimpses
Now & then
Once,
Eating chicken, staring
At the inside
Of a muscle
Once
During a bad thunderstorm
While running down the stairs
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there is a vault in the mountains / that in itself contains infinite vaults
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Agamemnon and Menelaus were/
complete creeps. Achilles was//
a pompous piece of shit.
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Then he said something that really made sense, said he kept a blank check in his back pocket...
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philanthropy corrugated with a smirk/printed aside every cardboard box and room/every cardboard house with every cardboard door.
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(I would cite here “corpse plumbers”, but I fear being misconstrued.)
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the pressure from my lungs threatened to burst my eardrums.
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Beneath an opal moon, the open field and wilderness across it look immersed in varying shades of blue. A strong night howler blows across a little girl's face as she walks the field as if in a trance; her whole visage framed against the backdrop of this very act …
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There is someone looking for youfor him or herself. I don't know if they'll keep on looking forever when we live our present lives so far apart from each other. You might as well be behind a glass at all times. But I still would want that lucky…
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two pairs of arms and legs
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Snow fell against the windows casting shadows that danced like fireflies or flame—he couldn’t make out which for sure. He’d tumbled and bounced from balcony to balcony, the snow calming with the winds and gently falling, now.
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In the Land of Manana tomorrow knows best and is never rushed. That is why it might take five, six days, or more, for tomorrow to ever show up. Even so, never on the Sabbath.There are those who take this inexact passage of time as a personal affront to their dignity.…
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"Why?" is the question I ask, but no one is around to answer. What would an answer change anyway? But it is all I can do. So it is all I can do.
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