1597 20 10
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Went back to his cab and returned with a whip...
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1477 20 11
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The stunned son knelt to understand then fell, his heart shredded by the hollow point.
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1494 20 11
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The box thuds at your feet: mug, plant, wedding photo, the 25-year pen.
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1635 20 12
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1183 20 8
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I'm trying to make love to her but she wants to talk.
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1916 20 18
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Can you see me dying? 'Not quite',
Said Mummy, 'because it happens
Very slowly all the time.
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1418 20 13
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3903 20 17
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The fallout came tangled with snow. We thought the sea would protect us. But it came from New Mexico greasy with Plumbbob’s vaporized pigs.
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1434 20 10
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I invited Van Gogh over for some drinks and a chat. I'm talking about Vincent.
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1622 20 15
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over tea & saltineshe read melike an obituary
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1672 20 18
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or the voice that wants/
to be inscribed/
forgets the sounds
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1854 20 8
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A supermodel, carrying a large Valentine’s box, fell on the ice.
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2022 20 9
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“Your mother has problems,” he told the kids.
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1698 20 9
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In that mix of sports and religion, TV was what there was of virtue. I thought bars were nicer.
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1331 20 10
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A sardonic moon/
surveys our plight and cackles.
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305 20 11
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1373 20 16
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The night before his mother's teeth began chattering.
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1808 20 16
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Just bring me his head, that cerebral kiln of hot, ruddy verbiage and cadence.
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1650 20 4
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In the hotel lobby, the gold light and warmth and flower arrangements were all lies, but they reminded us of spring. We imagined happiness. We checked in.
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1797 20 6
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The book has known many women’s hands, something erotic and frequently checked out from our local library. Its cover depicts a man and a woman, both with improbable if not impossible bodies. I believe the term is bodice-ripper.
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1576 20 6
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She lifts her head, nose heavenward. There’s a wet spot on my dress from our lovemaking, its aroma as heady as Claudine’s bouillabaisse. I hope she smells it.
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1750 20 13
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She offers the girl a seat, asks her to stay for a minute, but she can’t, she just came by to say hello, and don’t you like my new raincoat?
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1489 20 15
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The boys drank in one room. The girls in another. Always the same, no matter the letters.
Greek Letters.
Shabby sofa on the burnt-out lawn.
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1800 20 9
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My mother’s old china no longer reflects. It’s value is now estimated as drywall.
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2328 20 13
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Her eyes grew wide, moist, catching the low light, holding onto it as if an imprisoned lover. "So you come home." I smiled. Was she playing a game?
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1444 20 10
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8664 20 17
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The woman returns from the store with an armload of books. She reads them quickly, one by one, over the course of the next few weeks. But when she opens the last one, the woman frowns in surprise.
All the pages in the book are blank.
Every single one.
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1917 20 7
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There are hundreds of fireflies crackling along the tree line and the old stonewall.
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2124 20 14
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“We don’t drop litter. Pick it up.”
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202 20 10
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6% of anorexics die of their disorder, most of sudden heart failure.
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