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one frozen tv dinner later (inspired by the wishlist in artifice magazine).
one frozen tv dinner later, i was
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sitting on a bus in east athens.
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going to meet my dealer, goin
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anniston, alabama (what is death?)
what is death? a
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middle-aged man
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in a volvo, collecting
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payments and
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favors?
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i met him onc
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exhausted.
seeing yourself pressed naked
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against a window, remembering
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everything that you love
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is not sa
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thoughts reclaimed at the starbucks on college avenue.
in town, there is this
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bar with a sign out front
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that simply reads "bar."
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as if it were offici
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splitting the atom.
i split the pill like
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it was the goddamn
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atom or something.
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i was about to scrape
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the dust o
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now you, too, are gone.
it was not so long ago
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you were showing me
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that burned out stage
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by the river where the
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hobo
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on thinking of you.
i had a boner
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when you left
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which subsided
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in the fifteen
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minutes it took
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to realize you /
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writing poems about girls you hardly remember.
i told her she didn't want
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to get involved, but she
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told me that she was
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going to be,
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anyway
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i've written too many poems.
i've written too many
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poems about how
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unhappy i am,
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or can be,
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or was.
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i've written too ma
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digging in.
digging in,
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the way your teeth crawl.
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and latch onto my heart
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or my hipbone, when we
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do our
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