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What really gets me to thinking?

Abnormal symmetry.

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Emergency

I be
Lieve
That
Soc
Ial
Net
Work
Ing is
The
Big
Gest
Thing
To hap
Pen to
Human
Kind sin
Ce the
Apocal 

Ypse.

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What gets me to thinking?

Incongruence.

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language is black
            —Ruth Lepson

As is often the case.
I look around. I see
black. Why do a
fairly large portion
of us (the population?)
often think that black
is, in and of itself, om
inous and/or gloomy? 

How pretty is black to you?

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     after
                                      —authr


text

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     after twains wife died he had a hard time
     writing during the day or completing books
     no on was waiting
     at the dinner table
                                       —Ruth Lepson

As is often the case.

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“Quick! What Color is My Hair?”

It is often the case.

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Nationwide

It is often the case
that no one wants
to be where they’re
not wanted. Huh?

Heh. I mean…I’m
just asking if it is
often the case.

If, all of a sudden,
everyone else
jumped off of a
cliff into a dry
and deep ravine,
would you jump,
too? Hoh?

Someday I’d like
to write a poem
entitled Not Every-
one Is a Jerk –– but
does that mean
I will?

Hah!

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The Foxhunt

Wood u
Like to
Fox a
Round 

(Or 2)?

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Facts

Is it interesting
to ruminate over
the fact that one
doesn’t have to
be evil? That
one chooses
to be evil
over, say,
being nice?
Is it even
interesting
that one does
not have to be
evil? That it is
something one
decides to be
or do (perhaps,
say, rather than
eat a pizza; or
dress up in a
pizza costume)?
Is that even
a fact (that
nobody has to 
be evil; that one,
rather, chooses
to be evil)?
Aren’t facts
sometimes
funny and tragic
simultaneously?
Are facts (like
I am here, for
example) even 

worthwhile?

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Mangoes Hit Rock Bottom

Yes   Yes.
They were
Very good Mangoes.

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Silence = Death

They were each
And all at least
A tiny bit of del
-Icious for you,
Were they not?

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Under a cliff a locally run elementary school is at the same time a cake shop
         —Che Qiuanzi (as translated by Zhen Zhen and Jeff Twitchell-Waas)

Steve Jobs
needs his all
to desperately
brace for
the weather.

Bill Gates closes
the door,
battens it
with a brace.

Cukor
Kutcher
Woo.

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I figure if you keep a diary, it might keep you.
        —Mae West during an interview conducted by Dick Cavett

Here I am,
Bebe.

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Hi.  Please do
let me know
whenever
you are
ready
to
get married.

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I don’t know why I love you!
           HI!
                     —Susie Timmons

Here I am
spinning
around
singing
I can’t
believe
what a
dick you
turned
out to 

be.

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morning after identity
       —Karen Weiser

here we are now

entertain us

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I Hate Tiny Keyboats

I took an incriminating
photograph just to be
a bad influence.  I feel

stupid and contagious.

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I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.
                                                      —Coca-Cola

It’s as if...
existence.

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Ten oak trees filled with starlings, yearning to launch into swarm.
                                                                     —Ronald Palmer

“It isn’t fair,”
I heard him
say. “Which,
life?” I asked
in response.
“Yes,” he
lowered,
“lots of 

stuff.”

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You think that you are present at the very creation of the world.
                                                                           —Richard Meier

It isn’t fair.

Laughing
won’t get
us any-

where.