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Sagittarius

No matter how they Torture you, don’t reveal where I hid those Pringles

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Capricorn

The economy Will never recover from Your relationship

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Aquarius

Your best bet in life Is to crash sex parties to Meet celebrities

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Pisces

If you won’t glue tree Frogs all over your body You’ll never succeed

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Aries

Soon you shall turn to A new chapter in your life— Chapter 11

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Taurus

The distant thunder Warns of future strife and the Soft rain says “you suck”

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Gemini

Details, details, it’s All in the details—a white Spot on the hellhound

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Cancer

You can’t complain if You paid the dominatrix Her fee in advance

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Parlance (Suzanne Zelazo)

Parlance is an accomplished first book. Suzanne Zelazo crafts succinct prose poems which wear the influence of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E school, but owe more to Gertrude Stein. At its best, Zelazo's prose is biting, possessed of a sharp, confident grace, but from time to time the poems are so cold and carefully wrought that they appear [...]

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Failed Projects — 006

Before I published my first book, EX MACHINA, I wrote 7 books and 8 feature-length screenplays that were never published or produced. This week, I walk through all of these failed projects one by one in order to show how much work a writer often has to go through before having what the world sees [...]

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