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Corina's skin is a circus tent. Her red-striped peppermint scars are a reminder of Christmas and family traditions. The obedient poodles of her childhood dreams jumped through hoops of fire until they became bald and grotesque. Poor dears, now, they no longer yap. They…
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He doesn't call, not even on her birthday. She doesn't mention it or complain. She knows she doesn't have it as bad as some, even in this privileged Triangle of North Carolina. She is white and pretty and belongs to what's left of the middle…
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In his mind, he could hear Eve’s voice, “We had some good times, didn’t we?”
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No temporary solace upon this patch of earth,
stymied in your injury; labored by your girth.
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They had both discovered, though, that when people stared at them now, away from the carnival, it was very different. There, they were supposed to be odd, it was what people expected. Here, they were supposed to fit in.
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Early morning cokeBottle. Did Katie callHeiddegger "Skippy"?Remember years backWhen we studied so hard andHa ha, just kidding.As you age, neverForget you are dying noFaster than before.
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I hope you'll have the time to read this before your attention wanders.
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My father seems anxious about my gender orientation. I grew up looking like a boy, acting like a boy. He bought dresses and girly stuff for me but he avoided making an issue of it until recently.
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What a nation!
First we lost our money
Now we’ve lost our funny
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and any stain or streak/
is as you will or wish it
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I was bleeding from the soul
It took its toll
I fell all the way down in a hole
I saw some burning coal
I didn’t know where the hell I was
Or what went wrong
As I sang some unholy song
Where I did not belong
There was a frozen carcas
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The silence grew louder as it grew longer.
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It's good to be home.
It's good to be home.
It's very good to be home
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Unhappiness is a necessary boon
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"...she's been seeming like she's been dreaming while awake lately..."
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so many bills to pay
the list keeps shedding its skin like a snake
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You don’t want to tango with me, she said.
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the moment he started walking
my hands were given new tasks to do:
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I remember one time that summer I was with you (1964) going to a bar in maybe it was Melrose Park, or Northlake, or somewhere along Roosevelt Road closer to Chicago, not as far as Cicero though. I went there with a crazy gear-head named Roger Hudson, wh
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It’s all a matter of warped mirrors. As in the multi-mirrored passage I stood before as a boy
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weep or go stark mad your amanuensic fool will bury your words
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I'm an older guy. She is still quite young. I tell her I may be too old but she giggles and tells me that she did the research and it said because there is snow on the roof doesn't mean no fire's in the stove. She proved it. Things like this. We excite ourselves,…
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go ahead
stick one more morsel
into that piehole
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I'm in love with Uzma Goef, a beautiful young woman less than half my age.
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“Now God,” Mr. Smashface calls me out by name.
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They were self-contained, two nymphs in a photo booth. Maria wanted something different—love to spread across her face like a wide smile, a certain grace. Sometimes she had found love like that at parties.
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Technique, Technique, Technique, Technique, TECHNIQUE!
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"My god," Toni said, bending over and tapping her head gently against the counter in fake anguish. "His ass in those jeans. Jesus. I should be young and lucky like you." Toni tapped her cigarette ash into the coin tray.
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He's driving in the Sierra Nevada with his wife and their small daughters and the girls are fighting and he can't take much more of it.
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Big hair shoulder pads hell no.
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