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<b>Michael Phelps: Gutless Wonder</b><br>Smoking pot may be a crime in some backward states, but it's nothing to be ashamed of.<br><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1444579/michael_phelps_gutless_wonder.html">http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1444579/michael_phelps_gutless_wonder.html</a>

I'm generally appalled at the abysmal state of discourse one finds on the web.

As a poet, the best thing is to lie in the mud
where you're a stranger and try to guess
what might be safe to eat or drink

or count your boss's daughter's tattoos
some dank night, stoned as an outlaw
with your guns on the floor

or plant bombs in golfballs
like seeds of the Revolution
with your pirate buddies

or walk through small...
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As if having a girlfriend wasn't enough, now I have a job.
What next?

The white owls

pull tired bodies
of the newly dead

through midtown

glancing at my back
and flying low

near the windows

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all this talk of withdrawal brought to mind something I scratched out just before this assinine war started. Sadly, it's even more relevant now than it was then.
Operation Double Penetration

Suppose you can't pull out
once you have gone in
swinging like a Saturday night
attraction.

Suppose the shock and awe
of your initial penetration
are not sublime in any way
just the thuggery...
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I'm about ready to disappear again, for good this time. It's been real.

If I can save five dollars I'm going to buy a beer
and read this all backwards in front of people who don't exactly care
whether it means anything, so long as it hurts
me to read it and confess everything.

I was in love for a while a week or so ago with someone
who's name I can't mention out of decency. I had...
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Everybody Just Quit


I want to be a motivational speaker
and tell corporate America, quit your job, immediately
I want to carry this message of hope and faith
deep into the heart of Omaha Nebraska via the Overland Trail,
backtrack the Donner party, find them lost in dream,
feed them corn and American beans, walk them back to St. Joe
picking up freight along the...
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Regrettably, I am once again late for church. Luckily, there is always football.

I added a folder of pictures from my first nude photography experience. Shooting the pictures was a lot of fun.