The detainee is a schizophrenic who requests that we address him by his self-given nickname Elephant (presumably due to his tendency to wear grey clothes) . First found kneeling and begging inside the main concourse of the Grand Central Terminal he was given a pardon. When later again located sitting on a street-corner in the Lower East Side with a black and empty open briefcase, a smile, and a handwritten cardboard-sign we proceeded to detain the subject.
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She says the heart must be broken.
that it must be cracked
in order for the fervent content within to flow
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Vowels are speech sounds
created by
1. free passage of breath
2. no build-up of pressure
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While rushing to work my phone died
(i’d forgotten to charge it last night)
so i asked the man next to me what time it was
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i can sit and stare
at the ocean all day. do
n’t ask me to swim!
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i don’t understand religious girls
who only expose themselves to boys
in locked rooms when the sun’s down
'you are not sacred
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An angel trips and falls
Face first
Into the mud
“Clumsy me! ”
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how horrible it feels to shell out
a moving life
time
creating ceiling light
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Breaking news! young man throws bricks at windows
figures out what he wants to be when he grows:
brick one fell
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