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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Abandoned like an empty beer bottle, cigarette butt, worn-out shoe.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Alliteration is not a prostitute to be sold to every sailor who visits the port. This fine lady is a valuable literary diva one should ask to sing her aria only for special occasions.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Am I an old man who changed into a butterfly, or a butterfly who thinks he was once an old man?
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
A surprising number, like options in the cereal aisle, liberal studies graduates working fast food, people who don’t know Shakespeare coined the phrase break the ice.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Breathed like a contestant in a polka marathon, sit-up contest, stationary bike race.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Could be an amazing product, sell like condoms at a high school prom, donuts at a police convention, sunscreen on a Caribbean crush ship.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Disappeared like fog in a stiff morning breeze, teen revilers when a squad car creeps up the driveway, roaches when the kitchen light comes on.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Ditched like an unwanted cat, worn-out tire, ugly blind date.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Divided like boys and girls at a summer camp, egg whites and yolks in grandma’s lemon-meringue-pie recipe, dogs and cats in pet heaven.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Faded like morning fog in the rising sun, sports team logo on a cheap T-shirt, ninety-nine dollar paint job on a Chevy.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Flipped through memories like old copies of National Geographic, pages in a yellowing high-school year book, cable-television channels looking for a baseball game.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Fluorescent lights on the ceiling lit up the white Formica top of her desk like an operating table, white-sand beach at high noon, French fries under the heat lamp at McDonald’s.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Followed like a goat on a halter, hungry dog closing on his just-filled dinner bowl, water-bottle and towel carrier behind the tuba section of a marching band.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Gasps erupted from his nostrils like grouse from a thicket, schoolboys onto a recess yard, grease spatters from frying bacon.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
gleaming like a searchlight, Iowa moon, silver plate.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Her brown eyes flashed like headlamps on a police cruiser, cameras at a Superbowl kickoff, lightning over Frankenstein’s castle.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Her eyes beamed over the top of the cup like Peterbilt high beams coming over a hillcrest, full moon rising over a mountain lake with its reflected partner, 747 landing lights coming down onto a runway.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Her hair burst from her head like a fireworks shell erupting, framing her face in spray of red-blond energy.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
He yawned like a black bear coming out of hibernation.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
High-pitched squeal like a beauty pageant contestant found best in show, Oprah audience member given a new Chevy, rookie actress surprised with an unlikely Oscar.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Hung in the air like fart gas in an elevator, insecurity in a prom ballroom, guilt around a police lineup.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
My mind spun like the flywheel on an antique John Deere, merry-go-round during second-grade recess, hard spun roulette wheel.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Only locks in life are what you think you know, but don’t. Accept your ignorance and try something new.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Polish the young woman’s ego like wax on a wood floor, Shinola on shoes, spit on an apple.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Poetry comes out of you like a pot of oatmeal boiling over.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Probing the corners of the room like a caged cat, fly caught in a jar, fart in an elevator.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Rang in my ears like Easter morning churchbells in Rome, rumble from an unmuffled Harley, fireworks shells exploding over a Fourth-of-July parade.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Respect the world and it takes care of you; disrespect her and she kicks your ass.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Screamed like a manic cheerleader heaping encouragement on her high school’s punt returner as he breaks through the first wall of blocks.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
She looked at the ceiling, eyelashes batting like hummingbird wings.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
She pinched her lips tight together, like someone considering a foul smell, three-legged dog, ugly baby.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Smiled like a homecoming queen, Pit Bull Terrier with a new collar, actress on the Letterman show.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Snatched away like socks glommed off the sale table at Wal-Mart, dog treat snapped up by an eager German Sheppard, mouse picked off the lawn by a swooping owl.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Squeal like a cheerleader named prom queen, aging retiree placing the game-winning bingo button, frenzied fan finding Johnny Depp in her supermarket.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Studied all year and wrote in my journal like a nun works a Rosary, dog with a new bone, bee in his hive’s back room.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Suddenly, she emitted a loud, long fart, like air escaping a beach ball, exhaust pipe of a Model T, tire-inflating hose at the service station, and this without any forewarning borborygmus.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Sweating like a fat woman in a sauna, nun with a tattoo on her tit, overweight jockey.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
The flesh of her butt jiggled like water-filled beach balls, oil drops dangling from a soupspoon, oversized Jell-O dessert cups.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Tourists hurried past them on the pedestrian-only street like chickens scampering to the feeder, cars scurrying through a tollgate, Niagara River rushing into the falls.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Vanished like inhibitions at a bachelorette party.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Washed-out like last year’s swimsuit.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Whacked away under the desk like hail on a barn roof.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Wrinkles appeared and disappeared as he squinted his eyes and relaxed them, like someone peering into a strobe light, police car-top beacon, flashing neon beer sign.
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
You’re the only you you get in this life! Show a little appreciation!
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By AnonymDennis Vickers
Your eyes flash like Fourth-of-July sparklers, headlights on a mountain road, sparks in a short-circuited toaster.
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