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Something about her eyes...
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Mariposa, the skinny hound, crawls out from under the trailer
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She feels ugly but ready for anything.
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It starts on the Fallopian Speedway
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the signature of God/
consigning everything/
to the saturating energies of time.
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I didn’t understand, you said with a hoot, that it was hard to get hard when my ass was soft.
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So, how did they meet? After years and years of starvation and gruesomeness and lack of human contact because there were no humans left, only walking corpses, a woman gently lifted the sixty-pound dead man's penis with a cool washrag and wiped him clean. The dead…
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The night we crossed the Madres my father stuffed his Stetson full of cash.
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he makes his way back / to the ocean, back to the popcorn, back / to the pinball machines
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You’re broken. Your eyes don’t see quite right, and your hands don’t feel quick enough. I love you anyway.
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The drinking will continue/
until morale improves
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The movies he liked best were the ones in which white people played Asian leads. Since his girlfriend had left, that Barry was adopted had seemed to become more of a fact.
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Men have a way of doing that, Lord, why? I always thought retirement means you get to sleep longer. Nope He must arise early, make breakfast, after 40 years of eating mine. Next, he insists on coming with me to the market. When I try to…
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The end will film itself/
in charred, eviscerated bodies
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She leaned up on an elbow, smirked and touched his leg. “Want to do it?”
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"You are wolves circling, eyes burning in the dark...."
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His face is lined, lost, resigned,
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While you can,/
find the beautiful
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Fault and blame can be forgotten after three steep flights of stairs. Pregnant-lady-take-the-elevator kind of steep. I-said-elevator, holy-shit-she’s-falling kind of steep. A-faked-relief-when-the-child-is-born, but-born-special kind of steep.
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He tried to call on his break but she didn’t answer. He imagined her on the floor, sobbing, like she’d been the other day. The grey rat would have chewed through a plug-in or some wires and started a fire. She would be ashes, a blackened corpse, reeki
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The Count was used to boredom but he had reached the point where he was even bored with boredom.
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“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
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I arranged all my books before you came, /
so that it appears I read some more than others.
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I crawl under a table in the kitchen and listen to the women talk.
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We lie sleepless at night, enraged,/
and finger the keyboard
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Qaddafi's murder brought an old memory I had forgotten about.
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Theresa stopped speaking to me because I ate cows. This made things simple. There was no conversation.
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