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Your dreams will eventually be forgotten. Your nightmares will eventually be forgotten. You get to choose, though, which will linger. The gods will not know you by your final draft, rather...

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Thin, her face lost its substance, thin, her breasts lost their glory, thin, her form lost its stories. We are not our bodies I am not just my body we are not just our bodies but ou...

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Little Falls is a pack of feral dogs, beautiful and free, but something still lost when the worldliness was left behind. Even going back to Eden, something is lost. Utica is a Bosnia...

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Sanity, a thousand piece jigsaw assembled at leisure. Madness, pieces dumped on your head for somebody’s pleasure. Sadness, a side effect of using others as measure. Hope, for tomorrow not for...

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Faith is grief hoarded and weaponized, laid out for terrible numbing purpose. Love is knowing pain and wanting no one else to ever feel that pain again. Money is fear condensed into mat...

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Sometimes you see a pic of an ex with her new dude and you’re genuinely happy because he’s fat so that isn’t why she dumped you. You’re just happy to know that she dumped you because you’re w...

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some old damned book once said “when I was a child, I spoke as a child I understood as a child, I thought as a child when I became a man, I put away childish things” but when I was really ...

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I made my way into the mouth of the beast not into the belly, no, not in the least chewed me up spit me out but still I survived most don’t make it back breathing most don’t even give it a ...

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the cars on the M-line churning out their rockabye two connecting trains away from the Rockaways via the A but you can’t know it until they take that soothing tune wheels can make til you...

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eyes are always watching you but they’re kind eyes you think you’re being monitored but you’re really just being protected from afar Boo Radley just wanted Scout safe he might not speak he mig...

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and if there’s nothing left for us after this living as agnostics and acrostics might suggest if your puzzle ends up only half-completed all that matters is that you tried and did your best ...

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people say that Donald Trump is always taking the low road but where I grew up “taking the low road” was a slang term for “eating pussy” and Donald Trump does not eat pussy so this...

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1.) Too many reformed churches, not enough deformed churches. 2.) Your English pub in Utica NY will be called “Drams Along The Mohawk”. 3.) Like Churchill’s approach to martini vermouth, I drive ...

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language shapes meaning while efforting to approximate we will never be exact we can never be perfect but damn it we try our best to get within a rounding error of our deepest mea...

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we’re all under the same sky but the position of the stars is at least a little different depending who and where we are that girl you maybe adore but haven’t seen in years under those very...

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humility will keep you sane but it holds you back from taking action confidence is the opposite twin confidence can get things done but leaves your conscience broken in ...

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in John Brown’s day before he moldered in his grave it was assumed he was insane for thinking slavery could end so I’m raising up a toast to madwomen and madmen ...

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you are a mechanism of empathy you are a holy mineshaft of emotion but you need to be alive afterward to thrive you have to reload after the explosion give yourself some credit give yoursel...

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If the Rapture means every judgemental hateful jerk ruining everything leaves the planet? It sounds win-win for both sides. By all means, Rapture yourselves. Rapture yoursel...

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magpie blackbird steal yourself some baubles make yourself a pretty nest nothing’s full original we can only do our best every idea’s a little bit borrowed don’t play it to...

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Trust your brakes I mean, of course, check your brakes first make sure that they’re worth trusting make sure they’re in working order but if you know your brakes are good trust your brakes t...

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in Dolgeville New York in the next town north of the place where I grew up of the place that I call home there used to be a store called McLaughlins I don’t even remember what it sold I...

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You want me to go camping You want ME to go camping YOU want me to go camping You want me to go CAMPING You WANT me to go camping Camping? Look, my idea of roughing it is watching movies o...

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you always hear about mad scientists but you never hear about sad scientists resurrecting the dead to the tune of Morrissey buying their labcoats in black at Hot Topic before a rack o...

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may you find what you seek but moreover if you don’t may you still find a way to know peace because you might not find what you seek success is at least ninety percent luck you might st...

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