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| Toilet & Ass: a Love Affair. |
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| I want to make this relationship work |
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| The tidy bowl man has other ideas |
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| t's just you and I, and that's enough |
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| Oh, how I do love these quick encounters! |
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| there is no need for modesty, I've seen you naked |
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| Are we having trouble again? |
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| Now is not the time to forget |
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| your training! |
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| Mother is not here to hold your hand. |
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| If you must, |
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| Please refer to a higher authority |
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| Discuss religion, |
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| or enemas. |
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Our love- |
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| Is it as strong as two ply? |
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| a contract on paper, a declaration |
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| I am just your object of affection. |
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| Don't tease me, |
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| ;but I do love the attention. |
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| Do it to me before you leave! |
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| ******************************************************************************* |
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| *{ healthy eating. |
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| Serves 8. |
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| This casserole sings. |
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| Korean cookery abounds, finely sauteed |
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| braised in sauce, |
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| kufta. |
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| skim'd off of foamy solids, |
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| the remnants, |
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| after the clarification, |
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| does not overwhelm the delicate nature of the sole. |
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| there shall be no substitutions. |
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| (for those unfamiliar with squid.) |
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| Here, |
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| piquant ginger-scallion sauce reflects |
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| the Oriental influences on Hawaiian cookery. |
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| it also freezes well |
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| ************************************************************************* |
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| A little red. |
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| bread crumbs were not needed |
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| this trail was well marked. |
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| even the ants knew the way. |
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| in the queue, |
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| out the pack, |
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| no one- was desirable |
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| or as undesirable. |
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| the red velvet table linen, |
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| laid so carefully. |
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| on elbows, |
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| full of knees. |
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| sun-glasses, |
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| drifting down, |
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| past the bridge of her nose |
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| a sting, |
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| of new rawness |
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| aloe vera- straight from the can. |
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| spread thick. |
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| nobody likes a sandy burger. |
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| *************************************************************** |
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| Home Rev. 2 |
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| There |
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| That's it. |
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| it isn't the same at all |
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| like a place revisited |
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| found on a map |
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| with blue veins- the back of someone's hand |
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| the landmarks have shifted |
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| the points of interest have moved away to |
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| sunnier climates |
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| A temple? you say, |
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| more likely ancient ruins, rundown |
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| bring down the iron ball and be done with me |
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| When can I feel my own age? |
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| Oh, how much do I desire a cane, a walking stick |
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| being only five. |
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| it all falls away |
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| to be collected, classified |
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| applied with critical analysis |
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| what was He doing on August the 21st of 1983. |
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| (christopher) |
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| are moth balls the breeders of nostalgia? |
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| the wholly preservers of the once was |
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| a clouded crystal ball held in the hand |
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| uttering one silent whisper, |
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| "wait." |
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| ************************************************************************ |
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| city dreaming. |
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| under cracked cement, walk up |
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| up to the tantamount square. |
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| gravel is the gist, sworth away |
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| tossed Hovers of Bangladesh, with their sea serpents |
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| and open bottles of gin. |
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| the night airs unbreathable, the cough of mid-night |
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| in Sailor, |
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| We do find the occasion night spot |
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| the all night dinner. the asphalt breaths from underfoot, under wallet |
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| the street decays and drips from the root. the tar heel'd toe |
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| briskly placed toward the fountain, the open park, the night owl. |
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| the sea opens up like a used umbrella |
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| fornication with the stars |
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| the upper crescent moon- with its hue'd purple face. |
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| a beautiful woman holds up a yellow balloon. the world, |
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| she sees, |
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| the cars, |
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| open bridge breach |
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| The Yard Sale |
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| There are frogs, 10 cents a piece |
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| sitting on green glass pebbles |
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| in greasy water. |
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| A sign above the goldfish |
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| bowl, 10 cents a piece |
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| scrawled in blue crayon. |
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| Someone's discarded hobby stacked high above |
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| the faded dinner cloths and soiled doilies, |
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| a collection of beer bottles, |
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| frayed labels and |
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| a million phantoms of a million grains of barley. |
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| The pink eye's of rabbits aren't sad. |
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| a Woman comes & removes |
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| a tag from off their big iron cage. |
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| a pair of small shoes, good shoes. |
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| and a dress shirt, light blue and with every button. |
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| I buy the shirt. |
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| The Woman rises. Takes my money. She smiles as |
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| she fastens each and every button. |
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| Folds, and carefully places in a shopping bag. |
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| ***************************************************** |
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| conversations from the gutter |
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| spilt. the answers always reside in the back of the book. |
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| the hostile banana peel fought its way among the avocado and |
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| chicken soufflé. the phone rang with a white curl of smoke that |
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| resembles the father of the country. apron strings not unlike |
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| those used in a doctors office. johnny carson sat in our living |
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| room eating cashews by the handful. let no meat stand between me |
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| you and a higher cause. she stood angelic white peppercorns |
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| speckled her brow as she stirred the chicken stock with an |
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| upturned hand. a gold ring. 4 out of 5. Was it ready yet? |
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| ....the games played will affect no one but the cheese they |
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| protect and the psychological effects of such laws in this |
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| state... |
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| the phone rang. a stampede. the pencil. the correct answers are |
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| a.) b.) c.) |
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| IT WAS A SALE. IT WAS A WAR IN BOSNIA. IT WAS TWO KIDS GETTING |
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| SHOT. IT WAS A CROSSWORD PUZZLE. |
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| a benign trumpet player played the wah-wahs over my mothers |
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| fears. a white curl of smoke. a blue suit was hung from the hook |
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| and suffocated under a plastic bag. the stain could not be |
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| removed. two night of all night it was to be and the fork was |
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| inserted. was it to be the right formula for chicken tar tar? |
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| two over and once around and back again that's how it goes. make |
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| the little bunny ears. slip in the noose. was it ready yet? |
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| ..like all things the cost of todays food prices are sky |
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| rocketing..... and now for your listening pleasure... |
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| let it boil and cut your looses. I hear if you only invest in |
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| mutual funds the benefits far outweigh the investment. I can't do |
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| that.. think of the children. George Washington cut down no |
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| cherry trees. father slurped up the newspaper with a golden ring. |
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| a water circle bubbled up in a caldron of unstewed potatoes. the |
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| phone rang. and inside was a nickel dime and three quarters - so |
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| much for a birthday cake. the plates rattled. |
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