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How easy shine my shoes I. Oh gutter-water, trickling through metal bars in the concrete set in sidewalks gushing spent sprinkler water over damp grass blades; oh cigarette, budding flame caressing paper cherry nearing fingers, heady lung-filled smell of burning youth and aching agegrowing pains, lip-pressed inhalations; oh streep lamp, rows of buzzing stagnant fireflies held aloft in halfmoon sickle jars or bottles screwed tight to pillars tall and lank and cold to touch; oh shard of glass, sing gently your song of sorrow with a flash of white and broken-bottle green or orange glinting from afar tossed through windows sm

One day, while rearranging furniture for an upcoming party, a group of six twenty-something roommates found that, sometime during their stay in the old manor they rented, a door had appeared from nowhere under their living-room couch, presumably opening into the floor. Presumably, that is, because no one had opened it. The roommates just stood there, gathered around it in a semi-circle, wearing various expressions of doubt and confusion. "It couldn't have been here when we moved in," Sara finally said, "because my parents gave me that couch when I moved out and came here..." Tim agreed. "Remember the one time when we were laying on that cou

His garden i saw a flower pluck herself to see her sickly stem and drooping thorns she tore from earthen heavy plenty her spindling vines, to make them stir but dwindling dangling deformed they refused to budge, to her dismay i saw the other budding beauties shake the dew from filmy fronds of ache and rise and stretch and greet the sun -- but she, oh she, was from a seed undone i saw her strive and struggle so i took her with me even though she'd never bloom, never bear fruit, now in my home she's taken root

to the Young A sonnet but hurry must you now faster than be-- for down this road lies plenty and secure --fore. Speed! Of the essence! Do you not see just listen, listen if you're less than sure the urgency? The world is passing you by! to me the answer seems painless, easy. You think I am now harrassing you well just wait until you must impress a Boss. --just want to help you to succeed, Do well! Get stuff! A pile so big you can-- Believe what I am saying. Mislead you? The real world. If only you knew... No. Always, always remember this truth: never give up the ambling pace of youth.