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birds

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pieces of lint from some heaven unknown

dead

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probably not going to Heaven probably not going to Hell

A Strange Girl Like Me (Leda 2.0)

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I was a peasant girl, believe me, and nothing much to look at--- close set eyes, one blue and one green, wispy brown hair and a chin that dominated every other feature of my face.

THERE IS NOTHING MORE HONEST THAN PAIN

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My parrot Poe freezes when a crow soars outside the window the same way I do when you approach my door. You come knocking late at night. What do you want this time? I yell. To come in you say, please. Go the fuck away, I respond but you keep…

Bump

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I go days without washing my face or brushing my hair and I blame the moon. It's too bright, it's too big, it's too far away, it turns its face away when I yell at it.

Keys

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life, bro/bra

Eurydice 2.0

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Step off, dude. I have no intention of coming back to you.

She Wanted a Love Poem & This Is All I Could Come Up With

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What could be better than a BJ?

Signal

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A man I know only so well signals with both hands. Something is meant to appear out of the sky at any moment.

College Try

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one of these piano keys makes the earth move

Something About SW

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I didn't mean for things to get that far, it just happened before I knew it while I was looking out the window at the Big Dipper

Fearful of Ban, Frenzied Buyers Swarm Gum Stores

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Oh, wait, that’s gun stores. Gun Stores! Sorry, misread it! I thought we were in for a real treat.

Worker Reprimanded For Flatulence

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An employee at the Social Security Administration’s Baltimore office has been formally reprimanded for "conduct unbecoming of a federal employee," specifically for disrupting co-workers "by passing gas and releasing an unpleasant odor." According to the

We Are Frantic in Baton Rouge

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I go to the piano in my nightgown and play some of the old hymns. It is a comfort.

Broken City

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On each side of the street weeks old piles of storm debris and rotting garbage lumbered in and out of view - monsters of the sort that suck the endurance out of a people stretched thin with making do.