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Del and I watched my brother toe his way to the edge of the cottonwood branch that arched over the reservoir.
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if you whisper your truths, they'll disappear
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He watches his paralyzed left arm arc across his body, then swivel around and disappear behind his back. He does this over and over again. He's very high and it makes him laugh.
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it ate her and then I was next in line
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Tuesdays she worked afternoons at the bookstore, and he’d secretly go, buy a large order, sit in a corner with a newspaper. Fries covered in vinegar, veins of ketchup.
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"I would date a dog," she says.
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At first when she walked in, I thought she looked like a wet dog. Then after a minute, I’m trying to wrap my mind around how perfect she is.
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The field opens up to us like something born.
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Zach lifts his glass. “Look at us! We eat like kings. Kings!”
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Walking to work, Lawrence Settler was struck by a bus as he crossed a one-way street.
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I bought / a radio embroidered with pearls
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The Italians live on top of the ruins of Roman cities and medieval settlements, of the towns and villages of the Visigoths and the Vandals, gesticulating, fornicating, craving poems, like all of us.
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At the Cimitiere Montparnasse he offers the girl his raincoat. I'm searching for Samuel Beckett, he says, and holds an umbrella over her as she consults her map. We're close, she says, pointing. I'll go with you. Then we can visit Simone de Beauvoir. My name is Scarlet.…
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He was not supposed to leave handcuffs or a butt plug laying around.
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She drove me to radiation, to acupuncture and support group. She brewed me concoctions that smelled of twigs and dirt...
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I need to get in and out, you say.
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Let me tell you a story, child, of how your father became your father...
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Tap shoes are the portal to the opening of heavens that will ignite me with the highest voltage of electricity, give me the gift I was meant for at birth. Prophecy.
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She pulled into the doorway. Uncertain where to spend the night. Certain there'd once been a place with food. Here. This place. She remembered. Curtains. Small tables. Coffee cups thick-handled and sturdy. Crockery.
Some words came back.
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She wonders if Minh knows fear, if it is something that forms in the womb, like fingernails.
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Touching one of these special stones will bring out your own unique song.
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I really detest dating that leads to sex=ownership or to the expectation of it. The men are so quietly demanding, authoritarian, pushy. Who are these nice fuckers? Strays a'hounding. I want to tell them: I have friends, real friends with art agendas.
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I had a dream the daylight needed / repainting.
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My eyes became purple, and boys called them "picture windows". Well, not boys, exactly, but one girl did. Junie.
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It was one of the first things she did after they opened the wall. That’s at least what she told me years later, more than 1000 miles from Berlin.
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I passed out one night while I was standing at the sink brushing my teeth.
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In the present moment, she is there for you. Faithful.
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Within seconds, I strip her free of all that she wears. Her toes are polished the color of plump pink tulips.
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