I Bought a Skateboard to Smoke One Cigarette On
I pray for nothing too visible, too ugly, something red-puckered and deep-looking. Waiting for father sleep I was Young-thinking of the perfect place— Ment for a shark-bite scar I could funeral-show—...
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Transcendence stems from being rooted, my body has been harvesting this tumor for centuries, poor kids isolated from everyone, the world is more peaceful according to the numbers, the most amount of...
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say we never transcend anxiety. are we any less heavenly for it? what if the curtains we draw upon our days remain white blinds for always? what if the night opens too wide and swallows the bicycle...
View Articleas gone as gone can be
in some dreams, you can know what year it is without anyone having to say. think: something about a white station wagon in the middle of a field; something about a cream-colored interior torn up by...
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Dwayne used to be my brother him and his alligator hair access points areas of soft space...
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here I am arms crossed tightly against my chest chin resting between my wrists marveling at the demolition site wondering how so much emptiness could be possible how a structure could still stand after...
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I told myself everything was fine over and over as I walked across the street against the light and the flow of traffic. I was halfway across the intersection before I realized anything was wrong. by...
View Articlewithout every moment
a cold rabbit is sitting down the sun is shining just through the clouds lately ive been walking real good i opened a black door do you know what time it isnt the president is alive the grocery store...
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tomorrow all the people are replaced with tigers & they don’t need coats & there is more understanding, or less & they are good at stringing music down their spines & they breathe in...
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i am aperaham lincoln, i am unable to speak i meditate and thoughts crop up like weeds email dad, email rachael, email amanda i cried today while meditating, thinking, i am a bad son not that i think...
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i wish there was some way for me to change right now ?????????????????????????????????????????? there’s a girl in the newest american pie movie who is at one point topless i feel like there’s a fog...
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while i was hanging out w angie she told me i could tweet her idea for a tweet, which was, “the best bigge smalls lyric is ‘linens and things'” i enjoy, while going somewhere w/ someone, stopping for a...
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Today I went to watch the water and wondered why I made everything so complicated. Maybe I can come back as a boat lapping on sunlit water on the first Spring day, waiting...
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walked outside and sang to myself “i dont recognize myself or my life anymoreeee” thought im not doing anything constructive self hatred all that shit THAT SHIT i drank a lot of juice i ate healthy...
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clean clean clean clean dont get rid of it cats hit things cats are hitters this is the part where we start punching each other so many bruises what happened it looks like i got beat up dont invite him...
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there is nothing to say im here frowning, floating biking, walking dogs showering, you’ve been gone for a week i am alone clean in bed always in bed feeding shrimps out of my fried rice to the kitties...
View ArticleLET’S PARTY TIL THE YARD SALES OPEN
people tell me all the time you could work @ party city people beg me @ least once a week wash away my iniquity, cleanse me of my sin we have been talking...
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paul rudd is at IHOP explaining that his ex-girlfriend is ‘so goth-military’ while on a date with sarah jessica parker and his parents sarah jessica parker is wearing a green bra and you know what, I...
View Articleclarifying neutrality to salesmen
I am looking back at myself and that self is looking back at its self via my tangible self and the self that resides in my facebook profile picture two of which are definitely equal selves and each of...
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today at work a woman offered me free chicken and I felt a sensation close to the reverberation someone might experience if they heard a large sound through their leg I am in bed now; this room is at...
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