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How to Break Into an '84 BuickThe first thing to do is forget everything you've lost / Second, zip up your jacket, just to ward off all the frost / Best case scenario, you're alone, but sometimes you are not
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Jan 26, 2014
You Interrupted My SonnetYou interrupted my sonnet / Somewhere between lines four and five / As I sat on your steps and absorbed the sunshine on it.
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Jan 22, 2014
My Middle Name is SleepLong hours forgotten in sheets of paper, / A better bottle, more for nothing: / Lost saints and false idols,
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Jan 22, 2014
Pop MythologyIf much of taste is olfactory / And smell my strongest sense / Then I am only remembering the bad taste in my mouth
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Jan 22, 2014
CoffeeThe first burnt burst of roasting beans brings sorrow / All at once memories of yesterday outweigh residual wonderment at tomorrow / The troubles of people who may be countries away slink over individual concerns.
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Jan 22, 2014
The Holly TreeMild day in winter, week before Christmas / Turns out the tree in your front yard has been / A holly tree all along, finally showing true colors
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Jan 22, 2014
Adjust Your FeelersAn ant on the edge of a glass clings with microscopic acrobatics, / A thematic blood-curdling scream breaks my concentration. A dream’s / Manifestation, a masturbatory second-glance, a fiftieth
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Jan 22, 2014
Just MarriedOn a yellow-lighted main street we pause on a corner / For a moment, our companions lagging behind. / You set down the twelve-pack of beer by a lamp post.
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Jan 2, 2014
PrometheusBurning nails, the beginning of the end and black sails for the death of an invisible friend, / Tragic loss resulting from the magic catapulting from my fingertips. / Read my fiery lips:
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Dec 27, 2013
1 AMThe moon is at three quarters which means it’s / A quarter since I last saw you and I / Begin one more one a.m. run down
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Oct 29, 2013
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