1222 22 10
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Something about her eyes...
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2181 22 21
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1375 22 15
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Mariposa, the skinny hound, crawls out from under the trailer
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1682 22 10
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She feels ugly but ready for anything.
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1494 22 12
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It starts on the Fallopian Speedway
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1509 22 14
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the signature of God/
consigning everything/
to the saturating energies of time.
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1661 22 4
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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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1574 22 12
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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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1539 22 14
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The night we crossed the Madres my father stuffed his Stetson full of cash.
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1866 22 18
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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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2127 22 19
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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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1496 22 12
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The drinking will continue/
until morale improves
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2313 22 16
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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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1531 22 7
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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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1394 22 18
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The end will film itself/
in charred, eviscerated bodies
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1905 22 15
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She leaned up on an elbow, smirked and touched his leg. “Want to do it?”
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1621 22 10
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"You are wolves circling, eyes burning in the dark...."
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315 22 17
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His face is lined, lost, resigned,
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1427 22 17
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While you can,/
find the beautiful
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2422 22 11
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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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1662 22 11
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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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1771 22 10
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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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1917 21 11
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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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2504 21 16
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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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1710 21 19
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I crawl under a table in the kitchen and listen to the women talk.
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1317 21 12
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We lie sleepless at night, enraged,/
and finger the keyboard
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286 21 9
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212 21 16
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1526 21 9
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Qaddafi's murder brought an old memory I had forgotten about.
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2409 21 21
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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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