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Five Shorts with Five Lines

There is a point in everyone's lives

Where they wake up screaming

To discover they haven't been sleeping

And then they go to sleep

And can't wake up

 

God's humor is a punchline

Of straight faced barbarians

In the shapes of a funnel cloud

That coughs up battle hymns

Like pieces of tuberculosis

 

Love is chemical reactions

That bounce off the walls of your brain

Like children playing pong

That will lose their virginity to each other

He died when she left

 

Women are works of art

That are made of the bruises of an apple

And the sweet parts are cut out

Like the passages in the Bible

That the priest won't read on Sundays

 

Who's afraid of Charlie Darwin?

Was on the sidewalk in chalk

And every pedestrian walked by

And walked into a war zone

While a mutt licked the words disappeared

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Apr 22, 2011
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