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JJ Hutton Nov 2016
Better natured today than yesterday,
smelling less like cigarettes and more
like laundry detergent, you sit across
from your therapist at the bar and
ask for one more boilermaker.
You say, How do you desire what you already possess?

And your therapist says, Don't go down that drunk.
That's a bad drunk.

You're in a floral print A-line dress, one
you bought from your sister-in-law.
She's doing one of those multilevel marketing things
and though her Facebook posts make you want
to suicide yourself, she's happy and independent
and at home with her kids. Despite these lukewarm
feelings, you harbor some resentment as you finger
and thumb a seam that's already coming undone.

Sloane. Your husband keeps mentioning a woman
at the office named Sloane. You're at the bar,
almost alone, and promised yourself
you wouldn't think about Sloane. But here you are.
Sloane in a pencil skirt and stockings. Sloane
with a fresh ****** energy, the kind you can't
seem to summon, and you wonder why ***
is such an important thing. It's so brief,
forgettable, full of abject compromise.

*** is an inherently violent act, don't you think?
You say to the therapist.  

If your therapist hears you, he doesn't respond.
You don't repeat the question.

You watch yourself broadcast on the TV above the bar.
They're commenting on your hair and your arms
and going on and on about your likability.

Your therapist changes the mood. It's 6:30.
He gives the place a nighttime feel.
He kills a row of lights and turns on the
colored bulbs, the blues and greens.
The TV is turned down. The music is turned up.

This is what you've been waiting for, the lights, the music.
There's an hour before anyone really shows up. You can
close your eyes and drift.

Two or three drinks pass. A couple walks in.
You have your therapist put in for an Uber.

Maybe I've been asking the question the wrong way, you say.

Oh yeah? the therapist says.

Yeah. Maybe the question should be reversed.
Maybe the question should be
how do you remain desirable to the objects you possess?

That seems like a lot of work. Seems like you'd have no
sense of self. You'd always be bending.

I've been a plus one for a long time.
You say bending. But I wouldn't be
doing anything new. I already do all these things.
But I see them as a compromise. I'm just trying
to reframe, you know?

Why? your therapist asks.

You open your mouth and find no words. You smile. You say you've had too much. You're rambling. You're sorry. You better go.
judy smith Jul 2015
Getting married on a beach, mountaintop, remote villa or rustic rural setting is a romantic ideal for many brides.

But what does that mean for the wedding dress?

Should you go formal or footloose? Will your gown fit in your suitcase?

A bride having a "destination wedding" should think about versatility when choosing a gown. She must be "concerned about being comfortable, more so than your typical bride. She has to contend with weather and terrain, making her gown choice critical to how at-ease she feels on her special day," says Lori Conley, senior buyer for David's Bridal.

Christine Pagulayan of Toronto and her fiancé, Ian McIntyre, jetted to Costa Rica in 2013 for a resort wedding.

"I had a (dress) style in mind: strapless, low back, white with ruching. Initially, I thought about going short, since we were going to get married on a beach, but I then realized that even if it may be heavy or sweaty, I wanted a real wedding dress. So we found one that had a gorgeous train, but it also had a bustle so I could dance," Pagulayan says.

Some dress trends for destination brides:

• LIGHT FABRICS AND SHORT HEMS: Many traveling brides favor lightweight, airy fabrics.

"Chiffon and organza are always favorites. Full trains can be cumbersome if you're navigating sand or grass," says Conley, of David's.

"A lot of brides opt for the ease of a sweep train," which just grazes the floor.

David's destination-friendly dresses include styles in full or tea-length tulle, soft lace or chiffon, Conley says. Fabrics that travel well for brides wanting a more structured gown include silk gazar, georgette and crepe, which are "lighter-weight versions of silk faille and Mikado," says Carrie Goldberg, associate fashion editor for Martha Stewart Weddings.

J. Crew's Karina short dress, for instance, has a flapper-esque fringe, and is covered in corded lace. • SEPARATES: "Tops and bottoms are not only easier to pack, they allow for mixing and matching fabric and fit to get a silhouette that feels unique to your personal style," says Goldberg.

Separates work for any destination, she says: "A full organza skirt may appeal to a bride getting married on the beach; pairing it with a delicate silk camisole suits the location. The same skirt would suit a mountaintop affair when paired with a fur bolero or a fine knit."

J.Crew's Sloane poly-cotton long skirt has a simple, draped profile; a silk cami top embellished with beads, crystals, sequins and paillettes in a floral motif creates a dressy look.

At David's Bridal, there's the crisp Mikado cropped top balanced by a flowing, organza ball-gown skirt, creating a modern silhouette.

• COLOR: Let the venue inform your choice of hue, Goldberg says.

"A sunset wedding in Napa pairs beautifully with a blush gown, while the colors of an Amalfi Coast wedding may inspire the bride to opt for something blue."

• VERSATILITY: For bridesmaids — or perhaps even the bride — White House Black Market has a clever option: a short or long pull-on gown with a customizable top. You can adjust the straps on the "Genius" dress to make a halter, one-shoulder or cap-sleeved version. Easy to pack, affordable and available in a range of colors, these might be a good option for a group of bridesmaids.

• FOOTWEAR: Flats or wedges are ideal for beach or garden: "The more surface area the sole of your shoes have, the easier it will be to walk," says Conley.

Keep in mind that satin or grosgrain might get stained by grass or sand.

Another option for beach brides is "foot jewelry," an accessory that does away with the need for an actual shoe.

read more:www.marieaustralia.com/formal-dresses-adelaide

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Irma Cerrutti Mar 2010
Sloane swallows.
***** is ****!
I execrate extraterrestrial.

We are all kaput to conk out.

Pollyanna is singular hanky—panky.
Little green men are unpatriotic, perverted and naughty.
I verily don’t grease a *****
Oojakapivvycum.

If you are amphibious that means you are an effervescent ventriloquist capable of
Cannibalism, cannibalism and cannibalism.
The fluid inside the android is so gothic and naff
It is knock—kneed in the face of flashing *******.
I do not feel that I am on the shoulders of cobber doggies.
I am protoplastically lassoed abutting penetrating vampire and pervert
That penetrate ***** creature.
I have pricked little green men myself and taken pleasure in it.
It is only with the help of bad hair days of groupies that I have not been in Sing Sing.

We are all sadomasochistically decomposing in a heap of our own meconium.

I bore stiff to outstrip yours truly as much as I have room to swing a cat from Ku Klux ****,
But I am as complicit in the android’s ****** abuse as it were android ***.
Little green men ***** me as I ***** myself.
I ***** bug—eyed men’s ******* types as I have perpetually vomited Molotov cocktail.
I smell little green men’s filth televised on their ******* types.
I feel like I am inside a crust of cancers who delight in smelling others bonk upstairs,
Ad hominen id.  Ex post facto,
I am too much of a dastard to throw cold water on myself.
I coagulate gungily to my menstrual gibbering ******,
Castrating anti—Semite to flash me abutting crème de la crème.  
Strenuously, my ***** gluts under one’s nose because that is all there is.
Copyright © Irma Cerrutti 2009
judy smith Dec 2015
Weddings begin with the venue. “A venue holds everything,” says Kristin King, who is opening a new event facility, The Sloane, in Nashville’s Gulch area in 2016.

“It’s the vibe, the feeling. It’s the house for the event,’’ she adds. “It gives the whole feeling of what you’re trying to convey. Where you have an event, is to me, one of the most important things. You can dress it up however you want to, but it sends the message of what you want your guests to know about you as a couple.”

King, who has been in the bridal business for about a decade, says she envisions creating the ultimate event venue in the historic 1101 Grundy Street building. When complete, the 6,000-square-foot facility will house an office/bridal suite, glass tower showcasing the Nashville skyline, catering kitchen and double-sided elevator for vendors.

“A venue really dictates how many people they’re going to have at their wedding,” says Randi Lesnick of Nashville’s Randi Events. “If somebody picks a venue that’s great for 150 people, and they want to have 350, well that venue’s out.

“Pick the venue first, and then you can always worry about everything else.”

Book far in advance

With hearts set on the venue, plan for a date at least a year, but no less than six or nine months out from the desired date, before securing the location.

“It’s grown so fast, and I don’t think anybody knows how to deal with it,” Lesnick explains of the competition for wedding venues in Tennessee, particularly in Nashville and Gatlinburg.

“For 2016 we have almost every Saturday booked already. So if someone wants a specific date, we do recommend that they book at least a year out.”

Booking well in advance can have other benefits, says Lindsay Barrows of Custom Love Gifts and Events in Knoxville, who is also part of the Smoky Mountain Wedding Professionals Association.

“I worked with a bride who ended up saving a lot of money on her venue and some of her vendors because she booked so far in advance that when they changed their prices the following year when her wedding actually was – she had already locked in prices from the previous year,” Barrows adds.

Lesnick notes a venue could run anywhere from $2,000 to $10,000, and the overall wedding could run $30,000 to $100,000. And, if it is an outdoor wedding there should always be a backup.

“Brides have a lot of dreams,” says Sarah Anne Miller, director of weddings at Randi’s. “They look at more of the décor and the prettiness of the wedding and not really the logistical part of it. They want an outdoor wedding for 200 people in September, you’ve got to think about weather.”

Five weeks after the Omni opened in 2013, it hosted its first wedding. It had about 20 last year and seven already on the books, and there are even three scheduled for 2017.

“The typical wedding is still booking about a year out,” says Shirley Langguth, assistant director of catering at Omni Hotels. The Omni has multiple wedding ceremony locations picked out onsite, and also hosts numerous day-after wedding brunches.

More details

Once the venue is nailed down, couples can move on to every other detail that needs addressing, from flowers and dress to catering and cake.

“I want to meet with somebody as soon as they know what their venue is because there are only so many in a weekend that we can deliver and create,” says Juanita Lane, owner of Dulce Desserts in Edgehill Village, about her torte-layered wedding cakes. “Once they’ve secured the venue, then I would suggest it’s time to start looking at your vendors.”

Lane hosts two tastings at Dulce, the first one just to see if the couple even likes them. The second is when they bring out the numerous cakes, curds and frostings to create the ultimate custom confection.

Couples can now get that full-on tasting experience at Dulce Dessert’s brand new cake tasting bar.

“People can basically come in and do slices of cake and enjoy the Dulce experience,” Lane adds. “The thing that used to be reserved for brides or people having large events, the general population can do now at their leisure.”

read more:www.marieaustralia.com/evening-dresses

www.marieaustralia.com/long-formal-dresses
Karim Apr 2018
At 5am
on a Monday morning
Sloane Street is just an empty vessel
no one’s walking
no one’s looking
at the the nicely sewn designer clothes.
I’m home at 5.45
delighted by the sight of darkness
the sun’s not out just yet.
On a Monday morning
my heart’s an empty vessel
no one’s walking
no one’s looking.
David Hill Jan 2017
At Camp Sloane,
After waterfront,
They came for Moose.
"Your mother is sick,"
They told him.
"She's going to die."
Moose went home.
We went to campcraft.
My mother died next winter,
After a long illness.
I mis-kicked it
got on the District
It
is not the Circle line train

******* up
being chewed up
by the miles of
steel track
and when I'm restless
I see less
become more irritable
until the situation gets
intolerable and I
am plain horrible

I haven't got the patience
to play patience
too impatient and
it's not important
is it?

Now at the Temple
and there's a pain
in my temples,
it's a migraine
on a train
on the District line
what a fine time
I'm having.

Wait a minute
this is the circle line
it must be
I'm at Westminster,

I feel less pain
still getting a migraine
but
I'm on the right line
having a fine time
except for the migraine.

Now at Victoria and
heading to Sloane square
one had better beware
there's pickpockets
that operate
down
in Sloane square.

when I get to High street Ken'
I'll be almost done
touch in at
the design museum
just to see 'em,
the designs I mean
and see the Sun
I missed
getting *******
for absolutely no reason
except for the reasons
I was.
No barons down in Earls court and no Surrey in the quays
the underground's a mess if names are things that please
in Raynors lane there's rain again
in Catford there are mice
in Epping it is epic and I think that's awful nice,
In Battersea there is no sea
in Clapham they don't clap
at shooters hill they don't shoot guns
and Network East's a trap.

In Stepney there are several steps
in deptford they sink under debts
nothing gets me on my way than to pass through Green lanes, Harringay, now I don't know many gays down there but I'm friends with some
up in Sloane square
no Knights in Knightsbridge anymore
no Kings at Kingly court
Bradford's not in Bingley either
neither here nor there nor in Trafalgar Square will you see any ships

But the underground's a fabulous place for going out on trips.
Sloane McManemy May 2014
She is nature and the world itself. Sloane
There is a quiet thunder to the way she walks, and a heavy rainfall when she leaves. She treads water trying to reach islands that will house her but cannot reach the shore before her hurricane mind carries her away to new homes, homes she finds in people, and often the wrong people. But she is strong and stands like the tallest oak, letting gale force winds bend her branches so that she may feel what is to live, but never has she broken. Her voice is the sound of birds in the spring with all the melodies and lullabies of the early morning, she has a light in her that is both the sun and the fireflies and it will illuminate your heart should you ever let her in. Sometimes she is wilted but even beautiful roses have thorns and she draws blood if you try to pick her petals. She is the earth and the wind and the sky and though her roots are strong she is not always smiling, but just like a flower she grows from the ground up and all will gather to awe at her beauty when she sees it within herself.
The tube terminates at Kennington which is nice but it's not Wimbledon and it's not as bad as Paddington,
the bear will bear me out on this.

Say your goodbyes at Kensal Rise because at Warwick Avenue they'll ****** love you unlike West Ham where they don't give a ****.

Little Venice, Hampstead and St. John's Wood are all very good, Sloane square for the toff, Knightsbridge where they'll rip you off and
Brixton station where gentrification has changed the atmosphere,
the map tells me
'You are here'
but I can't see you.
Dr Peter Lim Jan 2021
Old village cottage

standing on lonely brown field

hush voices by night
kevin Jun 9
So Sloane is it?

Has the appendage brought us any wet toast from the Dilbert's under her village, eggs?

I'm great

3rd set of stairs just nuts in around this time of night

Drops of fountain ink

Jared letgo fan again wisdom vans
Trailing the trigonometry books
Tuition failed to return on your little investment with the lawyer I heard

Cal fire academics are legally gold marry me vouchers of billion ana a day here

Gustapo and cream for you?

Seen any legislation your taking an interest from in Australia today?

All the electric boogeyman told us was you had a theory for people
kevin Jun 18
Governor has problems, the Irwin employee has problems.

People gotta work and live with you too.

So we do this job and you follow us.
That means nothing gets lost in the spells ya know? Then we can pay ya folks.
Gotta keep the accounts clean to get hired around these parts of that campaign business

business
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Go easy on yourselves, lots of people's on your minds your considering thoughts, that's the difficulty you face.

Take the spa days not so kosher in the primary race,  use the significant, do the shoulders together, we ain't going to sleep yet.

New York full of go getters
We got till it's done

New York full of go getters
We got till it's done
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Sloane and me gonna try rolling stone

The reservation is made at motel 6 on behalf of the list and the paperwork is released to the persons on the list.

The waiting list.  Long decades on the list of clerical errors

In 2025 with lifeline federal phones we can transfer this electronically securely and privately to the private human and not violate privacy laws and protections.  That's the law

That's the law
#aoc #elizabethwarren #cagovernor #mayorofla #asmirwin #nytimes #latimes #washingtonpost #dailymirror #bbcnews

You get the liberty statue is for something? You keep her put her back people will notice her not niced up cuz a you,  make a menu first she's popular

Because I will rebuild the database legally now

In multi variable equations a=answer
A=anonymity

I'm the math maker

Criteria assessment for entry into now non existent homeless shelter circa 2005-10

To qualify for a homeless referral program, individuals and families generally need to be experiencing homelessness or be at risk of becoming homeless, and may need to meet additional criteria like income limits, specific vulnerability factors  or be prioritized by a Continuum of Care (CoC) or ESG recipient. Specific eligibility criteria vary by program and location, meaning certified staff vary in certification of ability work on those terms, straighten the insult out of the folds, tuck it in and work towards the goods, but some common factors include being literally homeless, having a low income, and being referred through a designated CoC or ESG recipient.

Thems the economic formula formalities from before your weddings and prom stuffs.

In this economy we became "clients"
If capitalism losing our rights and free speech
That no longer is the case

While that exists day to day do to clerical errors
The paper trail home is finished and the files are held
All reports and account transactions are zeroed

In poverty we gave a demographic calculator process for specific allocation of paperwork

Homekey is not news mist of the time for failure to handle paperwork legally

We roll back to pre purchase of permanent apartment to the emergency winter shelter template at motel 6 and extend the time frame

While the fraud and construction failure is accomplished with legal jurisdictional signature and journalism

History has no means to repeat in time as duplicate

History has no means to repeat in time as duplicate
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Retraction correction
Reconstruction

Historical accounts and record
Oval account volume silent

Only you can think of if it's your place to feel and think and speak about homeless lives

homeless lives
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Saints in Passing Falls
I hurt inside of nights
Mares of Ireland long in Gallow
Gentle settlements of the north burn
Frightful hauntings and return
Return not in sorrowful bade
Halted rising dress on patches dews
Blind feet scamper in cautious glee

Austere delight joining greys silver taunt

And wild streets in liquored brilliance
Convey omens hiding storms
Yet her simple smiles pleasure died
I've not returned by the doors

In the city I was born
Beside heavenly alters free
Terribled loud crowding walks high
My shortcuts beneath the gated baldlands
Underhanded stars of crimes
Mine only the letters
Kind and devout
Oh many devout promises of doom
Yet young Irish boy do fearful
Cannot travel with me near
Near Balboa and La Brea
Beside Sherman way and Ventura
His calligraphy scenes foreign in listing
Painful trust her laughter resents

Gentle Italy when will our tram return
I've gone from your meaningless words Irish boy
No such objects return to me

In my early days of county mayo we walked to the sod
kevin Jun 9
What up big dog its that that's the police officers diggler prayer with his esteem
Esteemed colleagues and passives minority oppressives
We not too here for that

Starter coat

Good morning Sloane

Law 1

Obtain deployed decoys last name

Order sent federal detain watson
Ventura police
Go army
Budget camp
He homeless

Rashid mc the mystic
Stumbled upon to a leaf missed tick
Now his daughter pay the funk master tell me no hearts is broke

Dj rasheed
At 8-11 under a.m find routine e break and low beam the ballroom mid city team leads

Follow all orders I made nasa hire my eggs

Remember duty first end for most im journalists of tada and brass retirement service depart

Too many Brady's for Kamala Wisdoms minds your focal point guards the bills hands

Kendall fund my enlisted a punked car son he can't flex off exempt!!!

In the army reserves we are granted a theatre company in peace time that we will have no means under title to deploy

And from that a public deployment if war theatre is an act of a traitor

All aligned coordination and coordinates visible under our knights sky that's the marines are henceforth marked and painted
That's a go

Police have drawn a line

That's news
kevin Jun 17
The maybes of cleaners

Eavesdropping and repression hunts and hints
Are hints crimes already in the bank

📄 "Indian Mythology and Music: Mythological references of musical instruments and vocal traditions in ancient Sanskrit texts" by Urmi Chanda


3 quarters pence, farthing as pennied and the farthest thing laddle did sing was curdled butters rotted lids

Jazzato

Meanwhiles
John beard award was awarded wild

Ex los Angeles mayor pledge allegiance as a guilty, no ****

I made no policy always rupis fault rock and roll

Taylor and Sloane have encores ....

The bangers?
kevin Jun 28
Our life cycle is down to the conglomerates table
And the serenation of the egg

In the village

She who has the least and average of the village requires the toast assembly for collecting bills

They are the appendages of rent

Sloane Momsen and Kevin Mathenia

Penny walks just not the farthing Kendall

The bangles! Thanks editor
kevin Jul 9
Order to employees of the state of California to void and vacate judgement of citation and fines associated with fraud and violation of free concerning matters on docket for one Kevin John Mathenia

During civil rights violations beneath a court ruling of fraud concerning homekey, roomkey and step up in thousand oaks assembly bills

As Obstructions are removed by one Kevin John Mathenia and my freedoms and liberties are restored by my singular labor no cause can be held to pursue these crimes in a court of law.  These crimes being abused of power, failure to yield and let pass and obstruction of free speech and failure to follow verbal and write declaration as order in the United States of America

Order for restitution from the state is issued forthwith.

Filed with the governor and members of the free press as well as multiple members of the bar of California

Also submitted to the white house archive
In hearing matters are being pursued without interest in justice by justice Dept officials for the tampered evidence remains a dilapidated building destroyed by the state

Employees are not called to assist in insurance lobbying further.  Thank you for your cooperation in mortgage fraud investigation of public communication violations in America.

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Construction of constitution is crime
Constitutional law provides for free speech
Not much else
Obama phone yourself

Hide your jelly bellies
I'm dating an Irish model onlines

Sloane said no remix Royce ******* was beautiful enough

Peace Officer read Mr poetry
She gradually indifferent
Dragged by the mapped
I surprise a Muppet
Tell wild blue child
She won't fun
Youth hid authority
End my probation

Reverie and retinue all ways songs Anderson
kevin Jun 8
****** indifference to a male counter part on earth time

How wars if women exist and men begin don't exist

In suffering s past tense

Back to chalkboard girl poems

Challenges in tap recitals

Miley one year of Taylor and Sloane's parents as editors
kevin Jul 25
This is other relay if com
To the White house
Just finished a language build request for prosecutorial abilities in vice concordance if diplomatic reassignment if New York
To assist new vice detectives enter new York state chain if command towards my relative maj gen David conboy

Thank you sir

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Loved You Tara
Kevin

Chalkboard Girl Poems
Let Pasha Live

My benefactor Sean
As supported my word
By giving me his phone for a month
In thousand oaks
Saved me the leg work to san Fernando

He showed up on his cross country bike this morning
You remember me
Yeah Sean
O.K, protect the phone
And he's on the road

How I missed that devastated stencil

Delusions of Grander Day
Destruction as suspicion

Construction as labor

Defect of timber, faltered command of waters birth

Logging industry in historical context of commerce and as means to measure sentence.

The final rebuttal of the Colonel of California

May and Spring rest in the forward admirals kerchief

Sloane, the appendage needs butter on the toast

Brian, grab your other brother
I'm a train Amos
We made a new divide

I got to Kendall
I can feel it
She weighs nothing
It's leafs and ink

I open idiom of Eden
Witness feminist theory
As girl reclaims woman
In shame filled brilliance
She wills not to close hurts eyes

She has been violated again

— The End —