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(thing) by haruspex (2.9 mon) (print)   ?   I like it! Fri Feb 01 2002 at 15:05:22

If only some of these girls were as beautiful as jazz heard over water when he's drunk and almost happy and aching for lost gone things. If only he hadn't loved one girl once, maybe he'd be chasing after useless things like bricks and mortar, dimes and quarters...If only his work was as beautiful as his smoke rings.

They don't even last forever, they just hang and seem to shimmer for a while. And he thinks, "Sometimes I shine!" but he has no means -- that's okay, he's got no ends. He's just cocooned by a company that's scared, that rank and file. Hey, night time sundial! Time to call up your old friends and find out if you're still friends.

From his window he can sit and watch the sky change colour, and each day the sun makes its leap and fails and falls in a puddle in the corner. And the seasons just stroll but they outrace his soul and hypnotize him as they roll around each other.


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Blowing smoke rings Things that people do more over and over that I haven't even done once pipe-weed Teen Bride Im Sorry
We are starstuff, billion year-old carbon; got to get ourselves back into The Garden Smoke I'm out; I'm free. Down here the night air is purple. What do I do with it all? Moments like these
August 23, 2002 chameleon sky get drunk Left, Center, Right
But an unchewed square catches in his windpipe and he crumples to the floor like someone poisoned by life The city. So many lights you can actually pretend one of them's shining on you. The sad thing is, if you get her you'll be sick of her in a year Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
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