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| slantwords.com/01_01_09.html | Predicting the future was easy, / the struggle, / trying to make it all not come true. |
| slantwords.com/01_03_08.html | With everything moving so fast / it almost felt like we weren't moving anymore, / just waiting for our real lives to begin. |
| slantwords.com/01_04_07.html | When they said there was no going back / they were wrong. / Actually, it was pretty well marked. |
| slantwords.com/01_04_10.html | It takes perfect concentration and refined skill / to be the get away driver. I only wish my high school / Drivers Ed teacher could see me now. |
| slantwords.com/01_05_09.html | They used to be so innocent / until I looked below the circling horses / and saw lost little children pedal powering it all. |
| slantwords.com/01_07_08.html | The fortress was supposed to be impenetrable, / but when Karen wouldn't go out with me / I let the zombies in. |
| slantwords.com/01_07_10.html | In the greatest irony / the long wait on the stairway to heaven / ended with a fun, but over-too-soon slide to hell. |
| slantwords.com/01_08_09.html | He laughed as he explained to me / that redrum is murder backwards, / laughed until I killed him. |
| slantwords.com/01_10_08.html | I only had one chance at landing, / fighting the cross breeze / and everything that said this was a bad idea. |
| slantwords.com/01_11_07.html | Seven hours in and four cups of coffee later / I realized / I left you at the 76 station. |
| slantwords.com/01_11_10.html | Twenty-two years abroad / still he could not set foot on land, / afraid he might see her again. |
| slantwords.com/01_12_09.html | With the line between art and reality so thin / he didn't realize his horrible mistake / until just as he was zipping up. |
| slantwords.com/01_14_08.html | Oh sure, Zeus gets thunder, / Poseidon gets the ocean. / Do you know how heavy the world is? |
| slantwords.com/01_14_10.html | He longed for the intimacy of the old / town movie theaters and had to learn / to settle for back-alley handjobs. |
| slantwords.com/01_15_09.html | Creating a tiger pit / in the middle of the city / seemed like a good idea at the time. |
| slantwords.com/01_17_08.html | Sometimes when all the people are gone / the clothes pretend they're on an escalator to laundry heaven, / nothing but buttons and dissolving semen stains. |
| slantwords.com/01_18_07.html | I have often imagined that walking in a valley is just like / walking in the ear of a giant. Him hearing my every thought, / me trying not to think of his giant wife naked. |
| slantwords.com/01_18_10.html | Every field is an ocean / and every pair of legs, a boat, / when you are a nine-year-old pirate. |
| slantwords.com/01_19_06.html | Tell all the truth but tell it slant. / Well, that's easy for you to say Emily Dickinson; / you were never asked "Do I look fat in this?" |
| slantwords.com/01_19_09.html | Letters worn smooth / by the footfall of millions / and by dreams no longer deferred. |
| slantwords.com/01_21_08.html | It was said that it could predict the future, / but it didn't see you / or that butcher knife in my back. |
| slantwords.com/01_21_10.html | In Portland / even the statues / are known to panhandle. |
| slantwords.com/01_22_09.html | Does that scuba diver know / that we tottaly just / pooped over there? |
| slantwords.com/01_24_08.html | It's not my fault the minisub / expanded back to normal size / while we were in your stomach. |
| slantwords.com/01_25_07.html | Even after the fire / there was no way to keep me out, / to stop me from finding you. |
| slantwords.com/01_25_10.html | After the ozone layer was gone / going outside became impossible and the / light on our closed eyes as we kissed was no longer the sun. |
| slantwords.com/01_26_06.html | To show that he could get to me he sent me a picture of my car. / So I sent him a picture of my bed / with his wife in it. |
| slantwords.com/01_26_09.html | I was only half way when the portal closed, / my head extending into the future, / my heart planted in the past. |
| slantwords.com/12_7_06.html | Steve, the mural painter, / had always taken the saying "sleeping with the fishes" / a little too seriously. |
| slantwords.com/01_28_08.html | As a Ninja she was prepared to disappear, / to kill at will, / but they didn't teach her how not to love. |