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I write to do the impossible.
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2021
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Maybe writing had become my religion.
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feeling obligated to write/ is like feeling/ obligated to fuck.
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153113
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Twenty-six years after leaving, I wanted to forget.
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1531110
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the kind of thing that begins with a fist
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The thought of losing time causes such fear that time itself, in the form of moments, comes and goes without us realizing that it doesn't wait for anyone or anything.
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artemis is but a mincing fawn:/ no sacred bitches need i in my ranks,/ nor hunting dogs to tear a man apart/ when i have teeth enough to bruise fine flanks.
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the cheek of you! to dream/ upon my sheets in schoolboy peace/ when here i lie,/ each second spent/ a tranquilized tiger cursed with awareness/ for all the flesh so near its maw.
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By: Roz Warren (and Janet Golden)I'm a humor writer. My work appears in publications from The Funny Times to The New York Times. Janet is a history professor whose writing was confined to academic journals and the occasional op-ed. Driving back from the Jersey shore one…
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The weather is chilly here in discomfort The goose bumps raise their black flags I've never peered through domes of eternal bliss Those sleek enough, slide past me I seek the empty company in brown plastic bags, With only a few holes and a branded…
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Luxury, for my wife is a lie-in,
undisturbed and swaddled in all the duvet's warmth
like a birthday present wrapped in love
all alarms, phones and distraction from dreams ceased
save for the constant metronome of the second hand ticking
inevitably a
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I think I remember now why people write poetry.
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3252117
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They sang and clapped and stomped shod feet on hardwood floor, the smell of man sweat and bomb-making thick as perfume.
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J.K. Rottenblotter, editor of Horrible Stories Magazine, has a midnight visit from a rejected short story writer to debate whether classical vampires or sparkling vampires represent real world vampires.
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