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I was good-looking, marketable and ambitious. And that never hurt anyone cracking it big ...
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His academic nightmare is set in an examination hall, where the student takes a seat at a folding table in the center of the room.
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13641
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And suddenly, I have this crazy impulse, so crazy and so puzzling I do not possess enough vocabulary and grammar skills to describe what is invisible and what is visible about it. The reader must excuse me and be attentive.
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proving little more/
than the player’s keyboard dexterity.
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5651
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It had all been for the children, hadn´t it?
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The Devil and the Holy Ghost played Euchre on Friday nights. The Devil drank rock and rye and the Holy Ghost went for Miller Lite. What just irks hell out of me, pardon my French, the Ghost began, is that nobody knows who the fuck I am.
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48796
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Mikey and I would scavenge cigarette butts from the trash for enough tobacco to roll a couple more. Just to hold us until morning.
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16063
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Never again will my body stay as you want it.
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21700
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The sink spat its water in a most erratic and vindictive fashion, with varying temperatures of discomfort and a nefariously mechanical nonchalance. Her arms are elbow deep in the misbehaving appliance, it looked to us as if she was drowning a small rodent
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The painting was on loan from a gallery in Chicago. We stood there connecting the dots.
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she lays there
wrapped in his baseball sheets
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To touch our skin was filthy,
to spread our legs a mortal sin. You closed
the keyholes to keep us apart, so we used them
to keep you out and keep our secrets to ourselves.
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17200
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I'm a jogger of these parts, but I've yet to discover a dead body, or even dead body parts, or worse yet, discover that my parts will be discovered by some unfortunate jogger.
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36142
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I had the hair of a metal god, cracking it against the air whenever the stereo belched fists.
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9210
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Fingers amaze me. They uncoil from a fist into a star of infinite capacity.
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5343519
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The gull put its foot down, stretched its wings out and swept into the salty breeze.
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16800
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The way horizons disappear in the dark.
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22253
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She is a manifold of temporal flows.
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11821
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Together they explore availabilities
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With the morning comes the repetition...
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15330
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...something is pulsing in the shovel against the window and its pompadour of snow.
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18210
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my tiny white world, the cube in the closet in the back above the shelving in a secret compartment cut into the wall
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16011
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Forgetting fractures her body into a vast flower of fragments
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leaves, starlings and other words fall into thickets of orange or green grasses or tendrils or snakes
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23743
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The snow buzzes in the Ritalin air beneath Dairy Queen clouds
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31596
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This is a fairy tale. There is a princess who is not a princess but we will call her a princess because every fairy tale has a princess. Her name is Tanya. She's the daughter of a mechanic and a housewife. She has two brothers and two sisters. She is the middle…
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12530
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The ride was exhilarating each time, but now it is time to experience it first hand, up front, head first in the “[tack]iest place on Earth.” Mazes enforce the chaotic crowd into order, just for now, as if…
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EVERY DEATH IS A MURDER Dear maggots: I hope you enjoy the chewing of flesh. Is 54 years difficult to swallow? My memories are stuck in your stomach making you behave like me. Pretty funny for a bug. What if you decide to become a…
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22020
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It’s possible that you’re dying. Every headache a brain tumor, your friend once said. You laughed then. Now you begin to see what he meant.
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