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Our ink was disappearing. All of it.
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102683
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The particles of dust didn't want to be looked at
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Maybe the thing is over by now. They have gathered up all the pictures and mementos of our dad’s life and hauled them away.
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Church-lady dresses with matching jackets
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113232
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... her hair spills like spinach all the way down to her backpack, the top pocket where the bowl and the cinnamon estrange themselves from the coffee.
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104620
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Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
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111163
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Suds, like gossamer bandages at her wrists, concealed the turbulence below but could not relieve it.
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1293136
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Q: This name in Basque means “owns a new house.” A: What is “Xavier”?
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123800
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At night, on these New England roads, there is no light, no pink sodium-vapor glow, no guideposts.
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109365
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faith in gravity/permitted them to extol/the guillotine's blade.
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79700
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These were strange realizations, and each built upon the one before until I was completely mystified and unsettled in my life.
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13541310
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sacred ground bleached with the salt of bitter tears
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110195
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My life was growing on me like a soft Scottish moss
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15601310
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I try to envision long-haired men riding horses across a vast expanse, their faces blank as those of my students.
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10981714
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He was a liability. I knew I had to ditch him.
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88044
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when I take the time/now to remember/
you have become/a thousand page/memory book
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86310
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skin is soft and too easily sliced away
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967118
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We must sometimes see the world/
as the pale blue dot//
surrounded by brighter dots/
and that endless field of darkest dark.
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160052
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1 Michael Martone is Michael Martone.
1.1 Michael Martone begins, middles, and ends Michael Martone.
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129282
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I am running for only one thing now. For Katy.
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1101158
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What's that snitch doin' here?
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1280115
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He looked straight at her, not to challenge her, but to better gauge what it was she would throw at him. Her eyes always darted to the thing right before her red, swollen fingers snatched at it, like a thing possessed.
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94586
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and, once in a rare while,/
actual pearls.
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25682418
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A landscape has the tendency to take on new dimensions when night comes.
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33374
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Sasha and I had snorted a table of cocaine and I had her trapped inside my Joy Division bedroom.
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88311
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I drink the funeral in a dream. I give satisfaction in voice overs.
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