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Tonight's Poet Corner: House Warming

House Warming Bring a bottle of Heineken, spiking the punch bowl, rolling the cookie dough, scooping up pastry kisses from a round red cup and frosting over lips with sugary frisks up and down the inside of a gray T-shirt as the supermen huddle, drinking caffeinated high times and low times with cinnamon whisked into statuesque molds on holy grail brims. This isn't a party, it's a get-together. No, it's not a get-together, it's a hang-forever. It's a tea time free rhyme fiesta-riffic swirling of edible confetti in plastic spoons. It's a kick to the tongue and a hug to the throat as you swing your hips around in a stereo's belt, and your girlfriend drinks warm, warm beer in the light of a cheap 2007 chandelier that your mother dusted off just for your new habitat under strawberry stars and uniform blue cars huddled in clusters around a cul-de-sac of overdosed lemon twisted martini glasses all in a row, heating up the play-doh in your s

Today's OneWord: Despite

Despite everything Maynard had told me, I still didn't hate him. I didn't hate the way he had literally minced his words with his large tongue and overly sharp teeth. I didn't hate the way he loudly breathed through one nostril as he talked. I didn't hate the names he had called me or the complaints he had sent my way like a grossly stamped envelope with more than just a bad card. I waved him away from my table and he strutted off like he had owned the place. It didn't matter. It was my restaurant, not his.