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“I don’t bet on horses. I beat their meds into pixie dust, a couple grams doled into baggies. DOA with no face to save, I fall asleep, taking over the kind of life I always wanted.”

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“well it’s almost noon and i've done nothing all day, all my great plans shot to hell, of getting up at 7 and writing 3 new poems 1 new story 5 letters of sending out submissions to 4 new magazines and making several phone calls all by noon – so i'll just keep drinking coffee and reading from the stack of books on my kitchen table and maybe i'll go catch a flick and maybe just maybe i'll get half as much done tomorrow.”