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• The cult leader poured himself a drink and started on about his plans, and I wondered how the priest was getting on
• When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• It's gone, aint nothing you can do about it now
• Andycyca thinks about a topic he knows nothing about
• As I looked back, he was reveling in his own feces
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
• Meanwhile, the PILOT, who has been laughing hysterically through the entire sequence, finally loses it. He falls out of his chair and bangs his head against the panel, causing the ship to lose control and crash into a nearby planet
• I knew enough about him to know his name and what kind of snowball he could make
• Jesus said, "I love him, for he is my brother." He was talking about everyone.
• Now that I have nothing resembling a desk, I am allowing myself a node to fantasize about one
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• I'm the only person who'd ever told him to his face he was beautiful.
• And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep?
• How the Old Woman Took Care Of Candide, and How He Found the Object of His Love
• The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
• What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?
• More than he was willing to give
• This guy tipped his waitress a dollar with a dick drawn on it. What happened next left me questioning everything I ever thought about income inequality.
• He was an ant on an ill-defined mission. She was the trapdoor spider of love.
• when you reflect that john now knows how he's going to die.
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• did i really change the way you think about everything? was it the chemicals in your brain?
• Much Ado About Nothing
• This is a poem I wrote about nothing in particular
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• Tom, He was a Piper's Son
• Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants
• "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
• He began to learn that waste flows downstream. Imagine his surprise.
• He Was Only Joking
• he is too shy to write his tale
• He wakes up everyday, puts an empty gun in his mouth, and pulls the trigger.
• I never remembered my dreams until they started being about you
• All About Nothing
• The time they fantasize about was built on a lie
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• So why talk about politics now
• In the end, he could quiet his mind only by dying
• So I was balls deep in the guy's ass that night when he turns to me and asks for a kiss. Damn. What a fag.
• Oedipus-Schmedipus, as long as he loves his mother
• An E2 Seattle debauch aftermath node
• I saved his life. He does not know it.
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• Mr. Lunch liked to chase birds. In fact, he was a professional.
• How many times has God twiddled his thumbs before he put vertebrates on the Earth?
• Pete Townshend was right about Saddam Hussein
• He was like the bottle of Champagne Krug
• He who does not forget his first love will not recognize his last
• She was coming out as he was going in.
• All he left her was alone
• He was hard in all the wrong places
• He tells me that I could have his heart and I want to take it right then, slip it into my pocket and run
• and now forever frozen in time he
• He was a man stuck between the objective and the subjective
• He just left his body
• He was found
• She didn't write like Emily Dickinson, but she did live in a house overlooking a cemetery, and I guess he thought that was important.
• He throws his heart down like a gauntlet
• You Should Never Have Asked Him About His Job!
• Much Ado About Nothing I.ii
• It is a strange thing to wake up every day and do things you care nothing about
• There is nothing left to cry about
• I want to hear about his day in person
• It hard to forget you now that my parents are okay with talking about you.
• I was wrong about the color changing; your eyes are brown
• "You want to know the only thing you can assume about a broken down old man? It's that he's a survivor."
• no words about nothing at all
• There's nothing noble about being a soldier
• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence
• He Had Not Where To Lay His Head
• I'm not HIS sister; he's MY brother
• If he's late, you can always start without him
• Shaymus is older than I thought he was
• An ocean away and here he was, seeping into her
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• He wasn't programmed to be a tenor, he was programmed to be a physician!
• Mr. Potato Head Sprouted. He got moldy. Now he's all dried up, but he's still up in the cabinet.
• He's a feminist. He tells that to all his mistresses.
• Of King Sigmund's last battle, and of how he must yield up his sword again
• She doesn't know what he sees, but sometimes it makes his face beautiful
• Much Ado About Nothing I.i
• It was 1992. He smiled.
• The Trial: Andrew Johnson was not guilty of the crimes for which he was impeached.
• His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
• The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
• judge a captain not by his shipwrecks, but by whether or not he blames the sea
• I kicked the Martian in his otherworldly balls, and he screamed like the solar wind howling through a planetary magnetosphere
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• So he's dressed a little differently and he has a halo-like light above his head.
• Things I'll do now that he's gone
• He was the kind of man who shacked up for shelter
• some say he was never here at all
• I should ask my barber where he gets his hair cut, then go there and slowly make my way up the chain
• When I was 21, he was building a Time Machine
• He Would Close His Eyes, and the World Would Burn.
• he was a punk poet himself
• now he just uses one he saw on a grave
• mr. T pities the fool regardless of whether he is wearing his seatbelt
• Doctors know nothing about drugs
• He made a way to his anger
• That's Just How He Was
• Amakuni once drew an old sword of his from a box, suddenly overjoyed by something he had cast aside.
• there's nothing special about love or heartbreak
• It's never too soon to start lying to your kids about drugs
• Just a NoCal noder party - nothing to get excited about, unless you count the fire
• I wonder if he ever thinks about me
• Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
• This was the shinest golden dollar I would ever see in my life and I was not about to tarnish it.
• Every poem about thunder was written under the protection of a roof, or, at the very least, an empty sky
• this was supposed to be a parable about the power of the imagination
• This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
• The Day the World was about to End
• "I was surprised to hear about the cat."
• he looks a little like you... so i would rather talk about other pretty girls
• It was always about words
• Something was about to happen.
• Nothing to worry about here! though It will come after a while.
• I'm awake now. You know what I'm talkin' about?
• fifteen words about nothing
• small intimate talk about nothing
• I will fucking REMOVE your writeups about Cloud Strife and how he's cool and mysterious and shit
• he knew that victory is not about who is standing after the fight
• About the state of a young woman's teeth now
• I had no idea what he thought about me.
• He's dead, Jim. You grab his wallet, I'll grab his tricorder.
• He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
• As the band laughed, her finger traced his spine, and he folded into her
• He's got stacks and stacks of words that rhyme, describing what it is to lose
• "I see," said the blind man to his deaf wife as he picked up his hammer and saw
• He always dreamed about subjects such as the very nature of the soul
• If he fell off the Co-op he'd land in the divvy
• He flops over and bonks his head
• Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
• The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist
• In a quiet grove of pines under a frosty sky, he helped her out of the sack. She wore severe white hospital pajamas and was beautiful.
• At least he was gentle
• It was late when he came home; it woke you up
• To me he is a daisy and I keep trying to count his petals
• a boy cries behind the bright screen of his phone; another lays mumbling about a ballads of his misfortune
• I married him because he was not mean
• He dreamt he was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty bed
• She grew a little older, while he was telling her
• The guy who may as well already be dead and therefore doesn't care about the consequences of his actions and is able to move with perfect freedom for the remainder of what will likely be a tragically short life
• Now he can be loved. Now he is no more.
• He weaves his words
• He Was a Crook
• The Abridged Edition: She was to one side, he was to the other, an untested bridge between them
• why is the great man great? he keeps on running through a world of his own.
• Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• There's nothing more annoying than to try to rebel against someone who's totally supportive about whatever you want to do
• He lived in southern California with his tanned, powdered mother
• He will have the taste of warm ripe fruit in his mouth
• and what about now? are your eyes open? do you know what the risks are?
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
• Now he dances to bring her back.
• It's easier to kick a praying man, because he's on his knees already
• If a frog had wings, he wouldn't kick his tail when he jumped
• For Nicholas, wherever he might be now
• he listened so well, he was still curious.
• He found a liquid cure for his landlocked blues
• He is honest and forthright with strangers. He reserves his lies for his family
• The guy who ate acid and is now locked in an insane asylum, thinking he's a glass of orange juice.
• Nothing new about Ancient Greece will be learned until the Vatican is plundered

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