1200
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Realizing life's absurdity via a domestic chore.
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120672
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"Penning a slight of tongue well versed
or worse, a salacious lie..."
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1400
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Let us now proclaim a new holiday
for ex’s
called X-Day
Let’s throw out weddings
and first kisses
and that old haunted
V-Day (Virginity Day)
X-Day will soon
take over as the major holiday
Tell the boss you’ll be
taking off
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92610
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I bow my head
and shed the antlers
of past lives
I no longer butt heads
with the universe
but I miss my curse
and can’t do worse
I throw myself in reverse
and rehearse the early scenes
of science and my
full meat diet
that sent
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4121
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watchin' the cat toy with the mouse/
as I felt for real what all those young boys/
wanted all those years
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70230
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Oh, no!
the lobster’s still alive
staring out at us
from the freezer
at the fish shop
sitting on top
of the other dead fish
and ice
its large claws taped shut
with orange rubber
bands
one eye stalk
moving occasionally
wonde
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118000
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my second language / to silence / plainsong of / the breast
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3710
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Our illustrious President
no piker himself
has revealed making
5.5 mil this past year
while the rest of us
went bust
He stated he expects to see
men on Mars in his lifetime
Men on Mars?
What’s next, women on Venus?
And now I m
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1060
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the rhythm of bone and soup and wind
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171294
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You have been my woman’s lover now for
seven years, ever since your two souls met
at La Isla Negra.
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2520
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You came,
lust in dust,
apple of my expectations
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1320
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two died that year /
well, you know . . . . /
baby you can drive my hearse /
it couldn't get much worse
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96820
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They shoveled coal into the furnace of the city so the ghosts would be warm for their haunting.
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6625423
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so I let go the uncertainty
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103221
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Everyone is tromping around in work boots like an army of happy gardeners. The park is smiling from all this attention, from the sound of kids who think work is play. It's not even sunny but we don't mind. I know you don't. Grey days are just as good. They've…
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