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Erk. I will break this up as soon as I can post literary works again (Sunday); sorry, I hadn't really thought about the length. The signature is an in-joke, don't ...

Really enjoyed this. I'm not going to do a line-by-line right now because my brain is currently about as functional as a dead dog-- I'll try to come back later-- ...

7/10; nice sound, otherwise unremarkable.

A/N: Written for the Extra! Extra! contest. I JUST REALIZE I COULD POST THIS HAHAHAHAHAHA. The article I based it on is here: Aaaaand the story. IN THE [INSERT APPROPRIATE ...

from the poet to his mistress: mid-coitus, more or less My love, you are not solid under me: your body is composed of points of light and empty space where ...

I didn't finish! On the other hand, I wrote some poems that I am reasonably fond of, and this month reminded me why I love writing prose so much, and ...

26 In the crowded study hall, the ghosting smell of brittle potato chips (long since ground into the colorless carpet, like cigarette ash, and with approximately the same nutritional value) ...

25 Is it progress, this business of making cannibals use forks? and blue-patterned china plates, one per scorched thighbone? and fingerbowls with flowers floating in the clear water which will ...

24 not quite the morning; but after in the car's headlights your shadow is doubled and each long-headed half is a faint translucent gray excepting in the places where they ...

23 kissing you, I saw that your eyes were the blue of a strangled baby. -- *hides head*

I'M SORRY I'M SO LAME. 20 a sky like water opaquely blue, until you stick your hand in it. 21 We are pleased to think that bubbles model worlds, with ...

19 MERMAID RHETORIC In the water it is not possible to live as you would on dry earth. You must resign yourself to shutting down parts of you that you ...

18 (OH GOD SO BEHIND SO BEHIND) I am a good test-taker my hand quick like the needle of a sewing machine, seaming the page with doublestitched words in staccato ...

I am so very behind. And. Well. You know what that means, right guys? Yes. Out roll the haiku. The couplets. The cinquains. But first! SOME STUPID RHYMING POETRY! 17 ...

16 the moon on the water, broken into wafers of light, like the bodies of white-bellied fish: this is the mermaid hour when the tide laps at the foot of ...