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ok so maybe i missed announcing april as anal sex appreciation month on the 15th day to be exact well now this month is national masturbation month thO i have this daily habit thing like the rest of you'se (don't lie)...nonetheless everybody in the whole house let's celebrate and play with ourselves (and each other) + Bob Vila's Home Pro Collection is at an overwhelming 80% OFF . now somewhichway it all fits in and what's with this poopoopmarmalade: someone had the audacity to send buk's photo into uglypeople.com when he's one of the most beautiful people i know i know thO that that fugly wench standing with him had to blow the arrow off the qualification meter...NO doubt about it.
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s.a. griffin
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~~hapPy b-day to you haPpy b-day to you haPPy B-DAY to cat...~~~~~SPANK SPANK SPAN!K... save this for May 21st...but first read her poetry/view the photography of cat townsend!

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charles bukowski
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basinski's book reviews
may 2002:

The Asphodel. A tribute to Jim Lowell (too)
15 Image Poems by Norman J. Olson.
The Man No One Hated:
    Memory of Bob Kaufman
The Author's Not Quite Dead
    by Gerald Locklin.
Poesy: A Publication for Poetry and the Arts
Mt. Houghton Miscellany
   editor: Tom Blessing
Channeling Humbert Humbert
   by Aaron Bradford
The Mystical Exercycle by Gerald Locklin
Fortune Cookies for The Damned.
   haikues, blues, & bullets by Bradley Mason
The Whirligig: Pulp with a Pulse

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