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A Dead Horse; A Sleeping Dog
I understand where you’re coming from. “It’s sick. Let’s fix it.” / I might be an animal, but you’re no veterinarian. / This horse might not be dead, yet, but you’re not the right person to kick it over.
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Broccoli
Etymologically, / *paradise* / is inherited from the Latin
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The Toxicity of an Underground Lifestyle
Where do you go / When / You got
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Angel
Have you come down from somewhere? / Is it because I’m going down, too? / What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?
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Daytime
Stop thinking. / Stop thinking. / Stop. Stop. Stop.
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Sometimes Psychotic
Insecurity. / Is that it? / Lack of trust, because of intrinsic insecurity?
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A Ten Word Exposition of Societal Masochism
It really makes me wonder / Why we do these things.
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Here’s something. / When a man and a woman love each other very much... / That’s an archaism.
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Battery
You’re laboring under the false assumption that I’m willing to work at anything right now. / You’re laboring under the false assumption that any part of me is working how it should right now. / Here’s something: When you connect one wire to both sides of a battery, the plastic coating of the wire starts to sizzle and melt and smoke.
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The Center of Attention
I can’t write poetry / Not right now / But I’m obligated to
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