February 2012
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Under-appreciated
Listen, going through life as underwear is no joke. While the shirts and pants and — especially the shoes — get to see all the sites and receive compliments throughout the day, you’re toiling away in dank obscurity in a thankless job: Providing support and comfort to the family jewels, enduring leaks, shit stains, noxious gases that would curl your toughest fibers. And...
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“Crappy newspaper execs are a bigger threat to journalism’s future than any...”
– John Paton, Journal Register CEO
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You. Cheat.
Infidelity aches and pains smug epiphanies in her naked spine no regrets right? I cheat you cheat all the people cheat fucking destined on some dark night it’s love love of deception a paradox you fuck never love fuck the girlfriends, wives taking a shit on fidelity cocktails jerkoffs Craigslist happiness and misery taking a risk juices perched on dark secrecy women large and small lesbians...
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The fog is all around us
He popped his head over top of the cubicle wall.
“Did you see that fog last night?”
“What fog?”
That fog that set in. I had to drive home in it.”
“No, I didn’t.”
“The thing about driving in the fog, is that you’ve got to watch out for the other guy.”
I slowly swung my chair around. “It’s always the other guy...
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The Lightning Can Kill
Eat drink lack of sleep memory gaps alcohol mood swings what can I say? drink each drink as if it were routine a shot with a spike of stress unbearable traveling D.C. to Sacramento Pills...
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Proper Party
A party without gimmicks throbs with relishment of tradition
carved meat crab puffs wine rolling into people
lush hands unfettered need a little distance party party party
giving value by decorating the soul
constant is the wish
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Laboratory Breeder
Experiments projects scandals and envy cooled safety melting modules a renegade project passive proliferation exposed vulnerability an ambitious waste of green lessons to the cause the clock ticks a study on scalable scraps of misinformation angst hasn’t killed the movement faith plotted against fate the hero must be mute
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“Don’t worry what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive and do that....”
– Dr. Howard Thurman
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January 2012
5 posts
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“A woman talks to one man, looks at a second and thinks of a third.”
– Bhartṛihari, circa 625
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December 2011
3 posts
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Sail
I’m in the air in front of a hawk
my heart spirals in a lazy circle slippery with fright
a surprisingly easy release into dark simplicity with an anxious eye on the winds brave as a hawk
while dying inside
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November 2011
6 posts
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Amber Gravity
Legs of honey prolonging sweet anticipation
nips of you just the slightest bite sweetness returns
deeper than contemplation etheral as the possibilities occur
but despair exists above even capable greatness complexity meant to be
such sweet experiences outshine the bleakness beneath it all if only for a
moment
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Randomanimosity
Amid unthinkable heartache unable to buy the place you seek and that competitive drama and every display of angst and then a simple silly notion five percent especially true the cost to produce the reaction overwhelms the soul
have a Coca-Cola as your psyche shrinks as outlined by her plan the rotten apple of your eye more than company a sickness dominator of a rare disease that you call love
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Freakout Improvement
Sick advice by a rare family jealous you’re dealing with traumatizing discoveries
friends vanish in fictionalized reality real life can’t weed out your presence
nine billion cells and a soul that is moot
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Cloud in a Hot Tub
A connection comes with something to distribute
a hot wife wasting money on a rhapsody of excess
social play to be feared and avoided
the combination changed lives
in our hot tub we discovered pu$$y
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An Overview to Matching Dreams
Aspirations smoky and ever larger the new old spirits smoking your bones until they are as useless as charred alligator ash
An oily mouth wonderful and fat holding old fashioned sugar
kiss me
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A Species Certain
Animals attractive tight and fresh
animalistic males taste the shit of females
she’ll tear to pieces his greatest designs
weaponlike vibrations bump the little box
a nude girl turning a crank
stolen lives made afraid until you no longer bother
October 2011
3 posts
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Benedict parents
Self-described adults on screen
children in less-stringent times
an education in exposure
interactions we judge in a diet of
tasteless media flak
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ROBB TODD: For Sale: My Book →
robbtodd:
I have some great news. My first book, Steal Me for Your Stories, is available for pre-order. This collection of short stories took me several years to write and being only a few months away from holding it in my hands is pretty thrilling.
Also, I’m donating everything I make from…
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Woman, a woman
Her lover’s fatal afternoon involved her friend an affair drove the murder with bleach and a grill the plan of revenge love chronically ill
September 2011
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“A 30-year-old man watching natural childbirth is like a 12-year-old boy watching...”
– Unknown origin
August 2011
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“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
– William B. Sprague
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“Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.”
– Malagasy proverb
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Culture Series
Romantic scenario in a fantasy awkward atmosphere dangerous and gooey in the bedroom sticky illusions It casts its shadow explicitly opens desires extreme and orgiastic encapsulating this freakiness in evangelical anal a shameful process that gave birth to luscious consequence a wise dictum that will comfort our longing through loneliest fog
July 2011
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For Something to Survive
The bloated combination that ripped through the core leaving it cracked and bruised and charred a head trapped in the morning sun he shook breathe or die his lungs bursting stuttering trashing his head healing he vibrated with sweat the white shit oozing out of his eye it’s over he wiped his nose more fucked but laughing then just crickets
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“Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.”
– Michael Pritchard
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A Doorway Locks
Big brother scanning the night customers supporting the reaper
flat-screen TVs computer screens message windows
the reaper illuminates a darkened hell
linger all day shrieking by drones in thick stupor
barely human they wither away
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“The leading cause of disappointment is giving a shit.”
– Unknown
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“When the finger points at the moon, the idiot looks at the finger.”
– Chinese proverb
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Extermination dinner
Six million hungry
gnawing for truth and justice
groaning doomed
the terrible trophy of war
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Sandwich Gossip
A squall sweet across her bare stomach an old old man muttering of precious moments everything could make you think anything could make you cry impaled by love in Louboutins
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“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
– P.J. O’Rourke
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Worlds in Perspectives
Getting ready wondering
the grind will enhance her focus
a round in a clinic
nice shoes pretty cool
defined by our routine
she concedes her loathing
I’ll just keep playing
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“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be...”
– P.J. O’Rourke
June 2011
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Happens a Certain Way
A connection from your crotch it’s menace it’s sex a threatening motherfucker what are you saying? you’re telling me to scream I locked eyes with the world the black looks stab my soul you’re going to be afraid remember don’t be afraid considered angry you empty out weird shit when someone is disrespected an effervescent high do it hard and guttural I stab you...
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Word Jones
She never loved you words spoken by strangers in my ears we carry purple messages we’ve sapped our poetry fuck sonnets the romance is found in things unsaid
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Disrespected
starved blood-soaked horror severed by the real beast of the world
danger comes from the mob growing under the dome
times moored to fear and anxiety American as humbling pie
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“If a fat girl falls in the woods, do the trees laugh?”
– Seen on a T-shirt.
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Noon Patrons
the pub in the district
two tailored people a little pained saying nothing but not shutting up
discussing rationalism pain, beer cultural double-talk
testosterone-packed lowlifes engaged in incomprehensible detail
the pub is old maybe a hundred years maybe 250 years
bars matter the best times boozing and talking we ride and roll on the way to the bar