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   As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. —HL Mencken


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Three Specimens by Mark Cunningham

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Parasitic Flies Turn Fire Ants into Zombies, Researchers Say. The announcer said he couldn't take his eyes off the game. Woman's Tightly Woven Hair Stops Bullet. I used the waterfall as a mirror and that's how I learned I had rabies. One in Four U. S. Mortgage Holders Under Water. The government spokesperson put out some more hot air about more evidence being needed before global warning can be considered real. We knew it was February: the newspaper ran a recipe for Grandma K's Peach Cobbler.




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I modeled for the psychiatric clinic's billboard, than had this feeling that everybody was looking at me. Of course the waves of grain don't carry very far: they're made of amber. My butt makes my butt look big.




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Andy Warhol's comment that in the future everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes coincides with the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. I don't know about having my shadow blasted into stone, but I do know that parts of my futon can never be evened out again. It wasn't a race and she still won. I was treated very well, so I have no marketable symptoms: the worst abuse of all.


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Mark Cunningham has three books out: 80 Beetles from Otoliths, Body Language from Tarpaulin Sky, and 71 Leaves, an e-book from BlazeVox.


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