988 9 5
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n truth, they are not red/
but chestnut./
But “Chestnut Wasp” lacks menace
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158199
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For another man she raced through infinite wounds and fists in a monsoon forest. Hands tied to her lover’s for a dance, a roulette of paper cranes exploding across the sky. Cascaded into the sea of black eyelashes.
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1884910
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No one knows that, while the ex-Area 51 guy delivered his rant, Art Bell left the booth for a Diet Coke.
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191199
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Frisbee dog. Stealth the cat. Read more. Cut toenails. Less wine. Bind the ties. Avoid mirrors. Divide water.
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108297
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Is it my imagination, or is her chair afraid of her?
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131896
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And soon you'll be walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
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8994
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He envisioned sinking his hands through his fat and pulling out the young, sinewy, long-haired Brendan Yin, the man Evelyn fell in love with. The blubbery shell would fall away to the floor, like a greasy banana peel, and the real Brendan Yin would be lo
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193595
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During fifth grade, I was called /
closeted queer and tall faggot.
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163298
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Sleep is a steep comfort these stock-still nights -
the ceiling an artexed breadth of angst,
the blue power light of the laptop in the corner
exhorting me to turn it on
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157297
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They say
it was like an elephant
married to a dove.
Imagine, me,
a dove!
Ridículo!
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137296
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Scientists have discovered what I already did once on dope
way back in the Sixties.
There are so many other earths out there
that they are almost infinite.
Now in our other lives we have to
shuttle from planet to planet
reading our poems. And
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136994
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In this lab, where I work 40 hours a week,
live the ghosts of questions asked.
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184193
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12497
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There were so many suicide choices it seemed overwhelming. The chief criteria was the least pain.
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331494
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It was there, and then it wasn’t, the victim of a magician or a swooping seabird.
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154795
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Hair as black as a Raven’s wing. Dark eyes. You wore a black dress, too, my favorite color.
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348299
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I guess the ultimate, penultimate failure
would be to write a love poem that
turned on everybody but you.
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18895
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185094
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Every morning, the children dig holes for their parents. This is both necessary and beneficial: the kids need to dig and the parents have to be buried.
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174094
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Take it from inside you and draw it out. Do it before it decides you are not what you seem to be and, as a result, holds you up by the thumbs.
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141196
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I cannot begin to list all the ways this conversation can go downhill from here, so I hang up the phone quietly.
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139197
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a girl with wolves, dogs and a bear
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112997
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I’m on Discord but I don’t know how to do anything.
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207095
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Janice liked me being in the closet while she brought dudes home from the Mack. We both liked it, but sometimes, sitting on that folding chair for that twenty minutes among her clothes, all perfume-stanky and leather-smell, it felt like the whole world wa
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105295
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175996
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The phone owner pre-writes his or her dying words! The app stores them and releases them at the moment of his death!
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120097
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Some of the elderly men and women are coming forward....
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163098
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The stand is designed to clasp two guitars, one on either side. She cradles an Ovation in her arms, a guitar variety our high school friends used to call a soup bowl. In the stand is an acoustic-electric hybrid that I toyed with for ten…
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The oranges are dreaming that they have turned to apples.
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