week three

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sometimes you reach in
expecting a gummie bear
but get a skittle

eleanor kramer

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jana kopeinig

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watch guys

what if the movie watchmen was
just about two jehova's witness missionaries
who get captured by a vietnamese gang
and teach themselves martial arts
in order to fight them
and escape?

chris duce

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the past

history.
his-story.
i want her story.


un charter

if we furled one another's fur
to reconcile conflicts,
like primates,
we'd be at peace.


student "politics"

i got offered to get "smoked out"
to vote for a party. they were also cooking flesh
on a grill
for free.
free meat and weed? count me in!

ricky cheney

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accomplishments in particular order

this week i:
made a new friend
didn't trim my own bangs
watched most of a basketball game
willingly consumed at least four zinc lozenges
played key role in gum ball/cupcake scenario
read the first chapter of a historical romance novel
decided what i want to be when i grow up
redeemed myself for aforesaid reading material by finishing truman capote "novel"
brought my love of all things kelly clarkson out in the open

sara thomas

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writer's block

poetry is........
is long........no wait
poetry is........
is hard........no.....
poetry is........
is useless.....maybe
poetry is........
is without.....not really
poetry is........
is inspired......close
poetry is........
is thought.......wait
poetry is.......................eureka!
poetry is long, hard, and useless without inspired thought.

rich curtis

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cinquains - cinco of them


hate

here are
some things i hate:
your answering machine,
bands that rhyme with ickleback,
whole milk.


cling on this

star trek
for some people
is way better than friends,
dating, college, hygiene, life, and
star wars.


nighttime

sleeping -
that special time
when you are paralyzed,
helpless and hallucinating......
sweet dreams.


just go

cross walks
give me power.
i want to go - you'll stop.
i'm not even gonna look up -
deal with't.


(+)

protons
in solution
binding with anything -
tossed from one acid to the next.
what sluts.

austinrory hackett

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i just gotta be mE!

dane cannon

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mexico

i give you good price, one dollar
it's real silver... no? ok, maybe not
nobody buys this @#%! anyway
what i'm really selling is pot

carter nelson

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ode

with you,
i dreamed of going to the zoo
maybe even entering the wu

you taught me to shimmy
shimmy ya, yam, yea
and get that cream night n' day

you've gone the way of the earth
but i still remember dirt mcgirt

...or should i say big baby jesus
either way

r.i.p. o.d.b

breanne chipman

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i've been thinking a lot about what to write over the past couple weeks. i didn't submit anything because nothing really came to mind. i thought that maybe it should be something funny. i thought that maybe it should be about one of the many heartaches. i thought that maybe it needed to be really creative. i thought that maybe it should be about the scared and anxious anxieties that most of us are probably feeling about one or more aspects of our lives. i thought that maybe i could just write down song lyrics that convey the feelings i have better than i can. etc etc. the more i thought about it, the more none of these things seemed like a good idea. maybe next week.

for now, i think i'm supposed to worry a little more about everyone else, and a little less about myself.

++anonymous++

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misfits post-danzig.
henry rollins in black flag.
march, two-thousand nine.

colin pinegar

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rory bruggeman

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