1565 21 9
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Polite society will cheer/
as another body is discovered//
and disposed of. The cheers/
will drown out the gasps
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111205
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17342011
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The suite of dark rooms/
extends forever./
It’s no big deal.
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21852016
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It was Gatlinburg in mid July
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19042016
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The custard of eternity is scooped into
the quantum cone of knowledge and drips
out the bottom one lifetime at a time.
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24792013
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I love to lie when discovered. "I'm your new neighbor." "The landlord sent me." "I'm the ghost of the girl who died on the 11th floor." "I fell from the sky." I wear billowing white dresses and a wide-brimmed straw hat that throws my face into shadow. Peo
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1090206
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...the bulk of poets are amateurs.
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17332010
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Practice has perfected disengagement.
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9952016
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Aside from smearing your mascara, destroying your freshly manicured fingernails, and pulling up your skirts in an unladylike way, being slain is a drag! How do you know if murder is on his mind when all you see are his words?
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17802015
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I said, “Marcy, Source Almanac is a guide for the Apple.”
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18672010
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The contrast can be summed up in a sip.
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20032013
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You died from a bad heart.
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20952018
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25912018
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They are all sleeping, but I know better. I will keep watch and if he comes tonight I will be alert and ready. When he arrives he'll see the slack mouths, the graceless sprawls, hear the grunts, snorts and snores of the other women and then he'll sense me. My eyes will…
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22672019
|
if we stare into the dark long
enough, we see ourselves at some end or
beginning –
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2384208
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There's a special block in the city, nestled between Mutant Town and Trump Towers.
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18942010
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Their bodies, ripe uncovered flesh, had begun to erode, the edges of their limbs and cores bitten, taken by the wind in small pieces, flaking and tearing, some parts sliding, falling away.
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28722010
|
We construct a paper bridge. The droid walks across it. We follow, one after another, like sentences in a story.
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17512014
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the doomed, but splendid,
first year GT40.
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2398204
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It's supposed to resemble the sea bed. These fish have never seen the outside of an aquarium and even if they had, they are reef fish, they'd probably get the bends and die if they went to the bottom of the ocean where the chances of them finding a cerami
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28682018
|
The doctor told me:
"You have 24 hours
to live.
no more, no less."
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25382013
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"For God's sake," my mother said. "There could be anthrax in the candy."
My mother worried about me going out on Halloween.
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24872016
|
We borrow a flag from a neighbor. It’s sitting on top of the TV in the den. We haven’t figured out where to display it yet.
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32572012
|
Tony Soprano said, “My pal Franco is a misunderstood hopeless romantic. If you don't capiche that, I'll have a conversation with your kneecaps.”
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42142011
|
He was on his way home from school on a dank winter afternoon when the attack came from nowhere, launched like a missile across the Gaza Strip. Suddenly he lay on his back with Jonathan Love pounding him in the face.
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16062014
|
I become the accumulation/
of appetites
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24692015
|
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2455209
|
When he turns around she has her top off and is climbing out of her skirt. "I don't like old men that much," she says. "We don't have to talk. No one will know."
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20062011
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...you lick you ice cream, little pink tongue like a cat's, flick, flick... lick fast, girl, the heat's gonna melt it...
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1714209
|
feeling empty as the
bottom of a bottle
dry as a bone
in death valley alone
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