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We're each other's inside out. (100 words)
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There being so few venues for Lapp dancing in Lausanne in those days, Swish Suzi took a job in a Swiss sushi bar.
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When we lived in the attic we were make-believe.
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I do not yet really understand the power I seem to have at this moment. And I am certainly too young to recognize that it will end up being weakness, too.
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Strike me down hard, bolt of pure blue, laser focus square, blast of hydrogen nuclear, knock me on the keister, blind me down, oh Lordy Lord Lord.
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When I stumbled upon evidence that the man I'd loved and trusted for 20 years had a secret girlfriend for the past 10 of those years, he tried to deny it.“We never had sex!” he told me. And I believed him. For about two minutes.“You never…
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Only the occasional kindness of a stranger,//
The curve of his back, a slope rushing past me,//
Is luminous, the coin pressed in my hand . . .////
And yes, I beg.////
I open my palm//
As Jesus did.//
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As if reaching for the Divine was the problem
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like the Bible in / Mauritania, like a mouse in a vial of ammonia, / like a retired coal miner on vacation in the Alps
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Cultivate your vaginal tears
at the gates of Thigh and Holy.
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The last thing eleven year-old Alysia Perez remembered, she clenched her mother’s waist as they both turned to stone in the museum. When she opened her eyes, she was in a world of darkness.
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She thrust her proboscis through seven layers of dermis and began to suck, filling her belly with his Welbutrin and Xanax infused blood.
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My sixth grade teacher used to tell us all the time about how being poor is nowhere near the same as living in poverty.
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Boy, it is weird out there, talking to real people!
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We’re lucky it/
was chunky spew,
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Licking bowl and spoon taste and foretaste follow.
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He looks outside, sees everything disappearing like crumbing cookies into what appears to be a giant mouth.
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don’t ask me to set my goals./
I have none except safe air to breathe,/
a reliable roof,/
something aromatic in the oven.
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"What's it like?"
Like everything else. We all do it, so how bad could it be?
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Nothing good comes from being lowered into a well to take a photograph, boy
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no more trying to keep / the peace, no more trying / to keep every person happy. / Just this: no more.
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Her smile dazzled me from across the room.
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The only way to get better at this writing thing, thought Melvin...
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At first, it was tedious, those long Russian names, the convoluted story, but recess after recess he stayed in and became enchanted
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"What mouths could not say, hands did."
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and, under foot,//
dark caves waiting/
with their unseen pigments/
adorning forgotten walls.
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Two thousand and two was the worst year for love in the history of sports. People carried their sadness around in wheelbarrows.
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Again, that was not the man I once knew. If they were taking Las Vegas odds; I should be the one dealing with this first.
Why was it him and not me?
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god bless my shapeless head. we are good at becoming older. i feel incredibly negative all the time.
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When I mentioned my visit to the museum during an A.A. meeting, I wanted to know whether the framers of The Big Book had been aware of the Nazi hospital sterilization and “euthanasia” programs.
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