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L. Bangs
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Clumsy, bold, and an optimist despite… My poetry is posted at thepoetryshack.blogspot.com
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 1h
Goodbye, Diane. 😔
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 5h
Neither!

To make it funnier, my two friends went first and received normal generic fortunes (marrying rich, great career…). Then it was my turn. Her face changed like she smelt something offensive!
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 6h
When I was around 18, I let a few friends drag me to a fortune teller who said I’d die at the age of 24 in Istanbul, and it would involve a redhead named Kate.
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 9h
We all have our technique.
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 23h
The Thing from Another World is sooooo good. Alien is largely it removed from the arctic into space.
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 1d
Those crazy kids…
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 1d
Since they now decided it is going to rain this weekend, as I left the office I gave all the older women I work with a stern lecture about the dangers of drag racing.

I can only hope they listened.
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 1d
My poems about sex get twice as many views than the others.
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 1d
“The wind's ambivalent.
The can of chardonnay
He lightly teased her for
Is on its side
And bleeding wine
Across the patio.
The gate is lightly chinging
Open, close.
He had a hold this time.”

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Quiet, Futile
Wretched Poems from Columbia, South Carolina
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 1d
(I’ve actually never been inside a Firehouse Subs. I’m just guessing about the pole…)
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 2d
I know…
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 2d
The chill that burns…
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 2d
“It is a land where everybody
Dyes their hair,
The men of black,
The women blonde.
The means and averages
Are the nicest savages.
They pull the levers,
Tie the bows,
Take up the slack
Until it's gone.”

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Tiffany Specifically
Wretched Poems from Columbia, South Carolina
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 2d
It is a mockery of the law, our morality as a nation, and my god having a restaurant called Firehouse Subs yet no pole for me to slide down.
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 2d
As an American in Paris, I had to watch An American in Paris.
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 3d
Our chance for rain today went from 45% to 65% to 80% to 0%.

I am heartbroken.
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 3d
“She doesn't ask
When she doesn't know.
Her lithe smooth lines and curves are natural.
She doesn't have to work for them.
She simply doesn't eat.”

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Pillow Princess
Wretched Poems from Columbia, South Carolina
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 3d
Happy Not-Tuesday! Enjoy!
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 3d
We underestimated how dumb so many voters are…
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 4d
I always feared the United States’ democracy might fall to a dictator.

I dreaded a charismatic swindler smarter than the average citizen smoothly amassing power.

I didn’t see anybody like Trump, a deeply dumb child molester given to incoherent rants and temper tantrums lasting years.
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 4d
The kids don’t even know… 😮
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 4d
I wonder if Clarence Thomas still thinks it flirtatious to talk to women about pubic hair on his Coke can…
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 4d
The Tron franchise from the start has been great visual effects desperately trying to cover over incredibly stupid scripts.

I won’t be shocked or disappointed if the new installment is the same.
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 4d
Tuesdays are Da Worst!
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L. Bangs @lbangs.bsky.social · 4d
“Her breath is peppermint
And caramel latte.
Her father doesn't
Remember
1984.

The unsteady stack of volumes
Guarding her bed
Includes Reid's Come and Get It,
Normal People,
Bryson's History of Everything.”

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Emma
Wretched Poems from Columbia, South Carolina
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