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the making by taking away
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Matt was among those rare creatures; an ideal kind of reader ...
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We danced the pee dance after too much Seven Up and tasted odd Jello dishes.
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Solitude is such an excellent alternative to suicide.
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served as it is/
among these friends.
The frayed filaments/
tickle my chin and irritate my nostrils,
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My poetry is bare, showing its pink and purplish imperfections and its injuries. I buy it a dress to hide its bruises, to ornate it a little, to make it smile. On its rather ugly and mishaped body, the dress looks comical, ridiculous, clumsy, like a bird with a broken wing.…
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I think he viewed Communion as an act of hygiene that allowed him to go on being fiery and self-determined.
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Maybe it takes as much fortitude
To forget
As it does
To remember.
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I caught sight of him standing near the nails.
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it is said to make your manliness last forever
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beautiful, but you don't own beauty. You may be sexy, but you don't own desire. You may be smart, but you don't own wisdom. You may be good and kind, but you don't own love. You may like trees, but you don't own the forest. You may like to…
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"I’d rather move a word around a page
than raise a glass or pass a plate
or work a room immune to poetry."
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I’m on Discord but I don’t know how to do anything.
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wonder
at all the things done
without regard for you at all.
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He prided himself on being not menacing like a bear.
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angels and lambs
drunkards and whores
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Scraping the baked on Bar B Q sauce from the grabbing ends of the stainless steel tongs has my total attention.
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First have a good window seat
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The old lady is losing her memory. She forgets people's names yet so familiar to her. A little sheepish, she takes her basket and walks to the village. Just like when her legs were young, suntanned, shapely and attractive. Along the footpath, by the shop windows, over the…
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In one of the cartoons I watched as a child, Popeye the Sailor gives Olive Oyl a bouquet of flowers. She is thrilled, he walks on air, thinking they will marry. His one-eyed heroism is soon challenged by Bluto however, who pours cement into Popeye's bath. It goes…
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So today was basically mellow. The blue jays argued over who would bathe first in my fountain. When a squirrel showed up, the birds left, but the doves took their place. Our local woodpecker, apparently recovered from a day long headbanging session, returned to the…
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She stepped inlike ice alonecould save hershe dived,slicing the wavewith her body her fresh pony tailsubmergedlike a silk scarfthen swam moving thewater awaylike whirlpoolscould hold her buoyantly save her from the headachewhispering wordsThey had been there all…
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I'm pulled in by the music
like a rogue wave
and he has no idea I'm drowning...
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She'd had every reason to believe he'd be difficult, though he wasn't.
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