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slumdog sabbatical
is it a vacation if you spend it in the pits? time off swimming in sewers, splashing barefoot in dirty streets — gutters gushing, flood waters…
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pearls untrampled
this is to get all the people out of my head, the echoing voices, the endless chatter, and all the familiar faces who make not-so-subtle appearances in…
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candy flaccid garbage pomp
it’s the sound of small talk between two plastic people — the whole interaction makes my entire body wince… it’s the champagne laughs that accompany the…
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some kind of future world
I’ll see you in some kind of future world where I’m brave once again and fears are faced head-on where the voice commands, and all who are around to…
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Franco Amati
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cutlery as clothes
she wore nothing but a spoon in her ear and a fork around her leg… stainless steel hanging as an earring from the lobe, dangling with a string of…
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power down
waiting for the electric man to cut the power — an afternoon of no devices sounds kind of nice, if you look at it in a certain way… more time for paper…
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twenty minutes
it’s a hot one, a little too sweaty for an April afternoon make it a no-socks sort of day — hell if I could, it would be a no-clothes sort of day… a…
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shame regulation
when you tell someone don’t be scared, you are saying there is something wrong with being frightened, something wrong with expressing something honest…
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naked in dreams
the dreams where I am naked aren’t all that bad I’m not taunted by an audience, I’m not embarrassed by the class… I’m revealed, uncovered, honest and…
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so close
is it better to miss by a mile or by just a few inches? almost almost… you tell yourself convinced the near misses mean something tell yourself they…
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Franco Amati
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drip, drip
drip, drip let chaos rule the day let disorder reign supreme when you allow your mind to command itself in its own frenetic way, with effervescent…
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Franco Amati
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laugh tracks & cum rags
when disasters unfold, we’re all ready to see who comes out on top… and when all the luck runs out we’re all ready to learn which friends come around…
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Franco Amati
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laps
walking laps around an iron cage a tiger dreams of something else… the people bring his meals each day and he’s given space enough to stretch there’s…
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porter
the hardest workers never get what they deserve I loved your stories I loved your style you were true and, my dude, you were real the sound of those…
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Garbage Notes
Garbage Notes
from the writer who brought you Scuzzbucket—the original home for dirty realism, grunge lit, creative confessions, speculative fiction, and assorted literary atrocities—comes an even deeper level of personal poetics ... this is ... Garbage Notes
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