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If I were President, people would notice that there were cats around the White House. Then there would be more cats than people. Than all government officials would be replaced by cats and I would be revealed to be a burlap sack puppet operated by three cats.

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No horizon line

Separated my earth and sky.

Smudges in the same dull gray

A faint hint of the drifting days

What becomes of the dullest gray

As the pale white bleeds away?

But the darkest clouds whited my eyes

Staring through pain did not make me wise

Would you know what my world consumed?

When you look at me, you see a tomb

Of screams so silent the air stands still

Lest the words break the world, endless and shrill.

I trod for miles through the dust

My life mist or flakes of rust

Too light to leave footprints in my wake

Fading insignificant into the emptiness.

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My rage is not cruel.

My rage is not wild.

My rage is a shield,

that I bear for a child.

The metal is scarred,

the straps are worn out.

It wrenches my arm,

but I stifle the shout.

But what of the child?

Do they follow my wake?

Can't bear to look back,

there's just too much at stake.

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Yesterday I noticed a spray can of Comet Foam cleanser sitting on the bathroom sink. The can said it had a pleasant lemon scent. Noting the state of the sink, I figured it couldn’t hurt. Only after I had hosed the sink down thoroughly and inhaled a lungful of lemons did I note the instructions. It said, essentially, that if you can smell the fumes, they are killing you. I don’t know if giving lethal fumes a pleasant scent is considerate or not, but for some reason it seems incredibly American.

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My brothers and I were driving through endless canyons surrounded by trees. They disappeared after we arrived at an Iron Maiden concert. Arnold Schwarzenegger opened the show by flooding the arena and lecturing on special effects as curtains of light shined through the water. Then I joined the band onstage as their bass player, Then I wandered into the venue's kitchen, where the Pillsbury doughboy told his dough children that they could cut their fingers off and make ladyfingers. Just because they could, didn't mean they should. I woke with the fading vision of a cleaver poised over tiny dough fingers.

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I was walking across a grassy field bounded by concrete and streets, reminiscing that I was owed money by a high school crush who had betrayed me. In the dream, we had been in a relationship, but in reality, she rejected me as every girl/woman rejected me until I met the con artist. The high school girl was standing in for the con artist as I reflected on actual betrayal.

I moved from the field and a dog was following me. I was afraid, because dogs attack me. I passed onto a bridge and some children started throwing rocks at me. I shouted at them to stop it, as if they didn’t know what they were doing, but they knew. Monstrous children know they are cruel. I caught one of the rocks. It was flat, triangular and sharp, meant for gouging out eyeballs. Then I woke up.

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There once was a man who was uninspired

"Will this prompt help him?" faire Nina inquired

Nay, he would grouse, grumble and pout

For Calvin May was a layabout

And there is no helping a light bulb that is underwired.

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TV show idea: a take on the Odd Couple, but set in the White House. Of course, one roommate is a slob and the other is a neat freak. Of course one is a pinko liberal commie and the other is a blustering Neanderthal conservative. The twist? Conjoined twins. Two heads. One body. They ran against each other in the general election and Pinko won. Pinko is dominant, so he controls the body, but only when he is awake. So he has to to remain awake constantly to keep Neanderthal from vetoing his legislation in the night and returning us to the Stone Age. Therefore, he has an addiction to amphetamines he desperately tries to hide. In the meantime, Neanderthal is having an affair with Pinko's wife during those moments when Pinko has to sleep. The wife is protecting her husband's agenda; Neanderthal can't veto legislation when he is distracted. Complications arise when she becomes pregnant. Since it isn't clear which nervous system is in charge of sperm production in their shared body, it isn't certain which twin fathered the child. Neanderthal wants to have the only physician who could answer that question killed, but the physician is also Speaker of the House and sympathetic to his draconian conservative shadow agenda. Ultimately, the show is dystopian horror with some light romance and comedy thrown in for those who still have hope.

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