The Same Hands

Coffee sales are up, the media has alerted us. No one is shocked. Everything sales are up. The free market has been bitchslapped by gardening gloves with claws on them and then penetrated in many holes with the same hands. Yes, labor rates are up. Yes, bean prices are up. But mostly kleptocracy has decided that it continues to be hunting season on middle and lower class dollars and they’re all…

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Anyway, Jose

Is this route directly to Old Cathay?Would you like another Fanta, Ray? Is Rudy on the way to Santa’s, eh? If you had the cash would you wanna stay? We could go another way. This whole trip we could belay. If you prefered the port Calais we could stay at the cafe… Wherever you want to spend the day we could go relax, spread out and lay or cuddle like some lovely cliche. However you wish to wile…

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Gwendolyn's No Good

If I can avoid it, I try not to speak ill,but of my girlfriend’s cooking, I’ve surely had my fill. Though I want to take her out, she makes most of our meals and we sit over dinners that taste like peels and seals! I find I can’t eat much she cooks, at least not anymore. And at this point my pants don’t fit the way they did before. My belt is tightened daily. My shirts get looser still. And if…

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HMTY

The days are getting more dangerous. The poisons are running through. The people have had enough. Happy Mother’s Day to you. The world is in a crisis; the papers looong overdue. Civil wars are bubbling up all over. Happy Mother’s Day to you. Whatever kind of mother covers over you, another’s gonna bother your brother, so together, we should hustle the muscle to recover the love for some…

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THe Grey and Jon Post-Picayune

Grey and me reviewing the past:"That April was something!" "And then that May rolled around right afterward. I can’t believe it all happened so fast, so quickly!" "Damn, in all so short a time!" The past has a way of being like that. Drinks have a way of being like that, too. We’re buzzed on history, buzzed on what we did, buzzed on the nostalgia of our accomplishments, that nobody else might…

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The Day is Waning

The day is almost over and I have found that I have said nothing of merit for the entire day. Having noted the trend seems to have had no effect on the quality of my speech. Perception seems to have helped little in this regard. Yeah, no change. Shit. All right, the day’s a wrap, and I’ve ended with a total lack of anything useful to say. Wonder how many days this will go on…

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Excitations

I’d like to say hellobut I’m not sure where you are anymore so I’ll just send this word out to the ether and hope you hear me somewhere out there and feel the good vibes. Maybe someday you could send them back. I’d like to feel them more concretely but kind of afraid to send an address through the ether. Who knows who might pick it up, you know?

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Sometimes, Words

Sometimes the words mean nothing, nothing but wonder that the language can communicate at all, magic in the transmutational ability to work one sentence into sensational otherness. Words can do this. Words can move our mouths from one mess of meanings elsewhere and make meaninglessness less meaningless. Sometimes the words are there and the sense has to be stretched somewhat so that the use can…

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Housing Compact

I don’t think I approve of my roommate having sex when I’m not. I feel like there should be a compact. A sexless house when one of us is dry and I’ve been dry since Carter. This isn’t something we’ve discussed but I feel it should be implied and I’ve just implicated him in this plan, so let us all assume it is so whether he’s heard about it yet or no until any further associations have been…

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Forecast Coming Up!

I can see clearly now through this rainful haze.All the water’s making it so easy… Everything’s becoming so clear to me: It’s gonna be some dark, gloomy, torrential days. Although no doubt, verdant greens will arrive, with a sunny sky behind them, too, we will not walk down such an avenue until we’ve gotten through this little dive. Our current weather’s not gonna be much fun… but whoever said…

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House o’ Cards

“There must be some kind of way out of here,” said the Seven to the Three, “There is too much construction, now. I don’t know when I’ll be free. Card-players, they build us up, growing day by day. But the structure is so precarious, and how much could we weigh?” “No need to get excited,” the Three responded in kind, “Our house of cards shall stand forever. You needn’t pay it any mind. We have the…

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Seeking True Love

Dan Perino needs your love. You’re the one he’s thinking of if you are a girl five four and you haven’t been a whore since at least Two K eighteen and your tests all come back clean and you like an artist whom still plays one-man shooter Doom after a long day of paint or behaviors just as quaint. If you are just such a chick and would like to be the pick of a Dan Perino guy then please just send…

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Only the Bad Die

All your lawyers are dead. They may have died before I was born, old lady, so your lawsuit threat doesn’t worry me so much. Instead of shaking your fist, you could try talking, you know. Explain what’s bothering you. We might be willing to listen. I don’t mean to be scaring you, if that’s what’s going on. I’m sorry if my demeanor came off as offensive. Just tell me what you’re looking for out of…

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Little Domino

The domino on the cement, lonely, awaiting pickup to rejoin her pack, had little to say on the gray day, but I imagine she wanted to topple all the people that stepped on her on their way to the train station. I did what I could to avoid her, but rather than change my stride my toe brushed her points. It made me slip a little, which I guess is pretty much what I deserved, anyway. I’ll try to…

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Wallow

"You know, it could have been so much worse."It is of little consolation that the car accident that is costing me thousands of dollars and keeping me off the road could have been a worse accident, costing me more thousands and keeping me off more road. That does not provide solace. It adds fuel to the frustration inferno within. "This too shall pass." I know I’ll get over this, but I need my time…

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The Carnivores Speak

The drinks are all gone. Soon we will have nothing left to consume. For now, though, left us look through the meat and eat. Oh, it looks good. Oh, it smells good. Oh… Oh, dear.

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With Great Power So Must Come Great Funerals

If I go, and I do not readily admit that I must, then let it be as Spider-Man, but let us be clear on the terms. If I am dying, I want there to be no misunderstandings as to how I am to be marvelously attired during my last appearance on this plane of existence. Let this be the testament as to which Spider-Man shall be featured in this guest spot at my funeral: Not the Ultimate Spider-Man, first…

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