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dienekes (972 words)
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Dain's Words, by Dain
Tuesday words, by slumry
dandy's list, by dandy
pretty words., by lly
miscellany, by patchouli
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...Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona
For some California grass.
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged...
Medicating in the sun
Pinched doses of laudanum
Longing for the old fecundity of my homeland
Laudanum is opium and was once used as a pain reliever before people realized it was addictive. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was taking this when he went into a reverie and wrote "Kubla Kahn", one of the great poems of the late 17th century.
Poe's nepenthe and poison hemlock.