Poetry comes out of you like a pot of oatmeal boiling over.

Dennis Vickers

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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.

Dennis Vickers

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Probing the corners of the room like a caged cat, fly caught in a jar, fart in an elevator.

Dennis Vickers

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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.

Dennis Vickers

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She looked at the ceiling, eyelashes batting like hummingbird wings.

Dennis Vickers

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Ditched like an unwanted cat, worn-out tire, ugly blind date.

Dennis Vickers

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Like a fire alarm going off in your ear, sulfur up your nose, mouth full of sour milk, reality is what it is – you deal with it.

Dennis Vickers

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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.

Dennis Vickers

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Smiled like a homecoming queen, Pit Bull Terrier with a new collar, actress on the Letterman show.

Dennis Vickers

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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.

Dennis Vickers

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