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				We are a funny story, my brother and I. Twins of Africa in a kitchen on wheels the size of a cupboard, we serve tourists baguettes and pain au chocolat, in the gardens adjoining the square where the tricoteuses did their knitting, heads were chopped and.. 
					
				 
				
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				Something about her eyes... 
					
				 
				
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1930 22 15 
      
			 
			
			
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				Mariposa, the skinny hound, crawls out from under the trailer 
					
				 
				
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1988 22 10 
      
			 
			
			
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				She feels ugly but ready for anything. 
					
				 
				
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1733 22 12 
      
			 
			
			
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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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1674 22 14 
      
			 
			
			
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				The night we crossed the Madres my father stuffed his Stetson full of cash. 
					
				 
				
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1999 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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				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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1856 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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1628 22 17 
      
			 
			
			
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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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2114 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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2835 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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1919 21 19 
      
			 
			
			
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				I crawl under a table in the kitchen and listen to the women talk.  
					
				 
				
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1434 21 12 
      
			 
			
			
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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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