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Take Your Gun to Work Day

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In a rousing show of support for guns and the owners who love them, the Legislature passed and Governor Greg Abbott gleefully signed a law proclaiming April 15 as Take Your Gun to Work Day in Texas.

Poppies

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I was born upside down, the umbilical cord looped twice around my neck. My mother claimed she was so busy working the swing shift at the hospital that she didn’t even know she was pregnant at first. But I found this hard to believe. Of course she knew. My

Making the Best of Things

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Something Missing

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An Agent of the Positive Writes Home

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You never know, though, how the Bipolars/ will react-- submissive and cooperative/ one minute, wild-eyed and elusively/ energetic the next.

That Place Underneath the Spreading Ficus

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HOW TO EAT A BAG OF GOAT DICKS by Dick Cheney

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["Dick Cheney's in a thong bikini, dancing through your mind, right now ... Dick Cheney's in a thong bikini, dancing through your mind, right now ... Dick Cheney's in—"]

from: The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars

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“Maggie’s sleeping with this big honcho artist at Irvine, Philip Guston.” “You’re kidding. Philip Guston, for real?” Kirk nodded. “She’s his favorite and they’re like doing it and I confronted her about it and she wouldn’t say yes b

from: The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars

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I got on the Greyhound Bus at 11 a.m. and sat by myself staring out the window. I could see the reflection of my own dark beard in the window, a 27 year-old man with a huge poem bursting my heart, gasping to get out into the bright lit-up world out there,

Abortion Mill

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She arranged to have an abortion at a doctor Greene’s office, who practiced out of a converted house on Solano Avenue on the north side of Berkeley. I took her there the day of the procedure. You couldn’t go to a regular hospital to have this kind of thi

The Sham Wedding

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Mary Jo told me to hire somebody to marry us in a ceremony in the living room up at the house on Fairlawn. This was to take place in two days. Her divorce was final, and she had to get married or else it was all over for her child custody. I guess I was

New film: Thank God, Father. ... with Al Cappuccino

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He needs to get free She needs a lube job They were made for each other

Clockwhipped

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I now felt prepared to waltz under a K bullet that hits a stucco brick above the tropical hibiscus.

Two Dimensional Beings

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Now, both the feline and the infant have abstractly different levels of cognitive function. But, they both share one thing in common. Neither of them have trained eyes. Sometimes, both the cat and the baby will track the same invisible object across the r

Samurai Kitteh

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She did not know the passage of time, for she was just a bedraggled little kitty, but she stayed behind the lattice for many rising and settings of the Sun.