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I didn’t hear that Duncan Pratt had been killed until I’d been out of the Army for two weeks and had gone four days without a single thought about that final year in Vietnam.
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11941914
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Before she flushes the toilet the world is spinning.
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24021912
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Ricky imagines bending her over his conga, yanking that bushy dark ponytail like reins and ripping into her. He sits, watches, legs crossed, smoking a cigarette. He needs a dancer for the Jezebel number now that Connie is showing. This girl would make a f
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1288199
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I know this: the sky is vast here//
and the sun unforgiving/
to any architecture not the best
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7291914
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To whoever reads this next--Henry James makes my head hurt.
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23261912
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I went out through another cold still morning erasing my steps behind me not because I did not want to be followed but because I did not want to find my way back again.
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it is said to make your manliness last forever
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14611917
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Jake remembers that Amy told him once that she thought that somehow he would always be a part of her life. That was before she went to Spain and married an American bull fighter.
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15221910
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The jail, where I stayed for 48 hours, gave me enough information to write a 180-page book, something I resisted setting out upon due to the insult of it.
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28871913
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She wanted one, she said. She wanted one who looked like me. I wanted one, because I wanted her. I wanted her for everything; I wanted her to fill every crack and space inside of me.
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20281913
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Was that the door slamming?
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11221911
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Girl with glasses and
skinny fingers
playing with wires
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12941913
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14561915
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as long as you have some snacks up there
I can be brave
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15991915
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Our sons do nothing but drink and roar
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13991914
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Co-polar order spectrum; strobe genre (the disco light of the 70s illumining and eclipsing fiction-non-fiction-non in one "article"); UTAH! a jump from forehead-down to standing fast, a cheer, for genre studies.
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1439198
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Evening was drawing nigh and Mosby's horse had tired from the daylong ride.
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16341918
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He was a tenth grade / messiah, famous for acts of attrition.
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13871915
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“What does the future hold?”
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1287199
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the constant inner jabber
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24731913
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In China I remembered you only once:the restaurant's speciality, chosenfrom a braid of live varieties,spiraled to the floor while the waiterflayed it with a knife flickedfrom his wrist. The snake made your initialover and over the black tile.What pain? Love's all…
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"And you’ll forgive my sayin’, your Maggie’s in heat, and if ya want to keep her you’re gonna ‘ave to fight. To be sure after this they’ll leave ya alone.”
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14741911
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I describe mine as uterine-based hysteria or Sex Test.
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16181913
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On the bed he tickled her until she was crying with laughter. And then the tickles became caresses, the fingers, lips.
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37551913
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Somebody pushed the automatic fuck-you button today,
not the due-to-the-volume-of-submissions-we-receive button,
nor the it-does-not-fit-our-editorial-needs button;
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15811911
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No snippet to see, here. The piece is so short a snippet would be the whole thing.
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1168199
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One moustache hair at moustache level on a filmy bathroom mirror. A red velvet spread on a big round bed. Dear Ma: We saw a bearded lady.
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19831914
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Writing as parallel form | Writing a parallel line | Seeing stealing | Stealing seeing | Stealing as seeing
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10461911
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12731916
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severe snow storm coming. I'm looking for a parking spot and listening to Machito & Charlie Parker
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