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I turned on the television last night, and one of the networks had a segment about a girl with no nose.
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...Rabidosa rabida- no spinner/
of webs but a quick and cunning
solitary hunter. Anxiety overwhelmed
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...a session/
of hide and seek/
among the syllables.
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A dirtied light falls through/
the grimed windowpanes.
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When you push my bra down, so it rests uncomfortably beneath my breasts—your teeth dragging pink trails across my throat and shoulders, pushing your thumb and forefinger into my panties—you don't say that you love me. You say, “Jesus shit. Relax, baby,…
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I'm reading your remains.
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What are the odds of August rain in Texas?
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I knew a girl on Folly Island who took
showers in water so hot
her skin blushed pink rosettes.
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You have transformed me into an aimless, sleepless wraith...
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a song jolts my memory . . .
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When I squint at her from across the table I can see the waveforms created by her carrier signal.
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Eli the dog cocks his head like a pistol;
half cock, full cock.
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"we are all headed to be forsaken by animal hearts a mountain of poor"
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She drew her hands out of the chest cavity and looked at the clock.
‘Time of death,’ she said.
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It's that quiet comfortable darkness. One should feel it often and necessarily.
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I write to make visible my small/
assertions against impermanence.
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Eat the Body/
Drink the Blood/
Perfect the sacrifice,
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My swinging purse sent saucers tinkling to the tile and the copper-headed waitress flew over, swooping on the shatter, clutching clean forks like a handful of flowers.
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With such a world/
one must invent a heaven
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When the whistle drops, do not take any guff.
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Trent’s had many phases: Madonna, Bette, leather, water sports, rollerblading, haiku, chicken queen, rice queen, muscle queen, daddy. But religion? This is new.
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let’s press our words into the clay/
in language so completely dead/
we have to re-imagine it.
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The transformation in their domineering, sour mother revised her children’s memories of their childhoods.
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Even if your heart is as large as a small car, your tongue as heavy as two grown men—even then—you will have to carry it with you wherever you go.
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saw the world was a mess
I did nothing about it, poured myself some apple juice
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One of the men leaned over and spit long and dark next to where the dog lay curled. He said something about the senora, and the other men laughed.
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Some nights now I sit at my window
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Unfinished, deeply flawed stories require the kind of handling you see in movies where a Virus That Will Doom Mankind is disposed of by scientists in hazmat suits.
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I'm a lot wiser now but so what?
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The first time I see her, she is slouched in a tire swing, pushing off with one foot and dragging the other beneath a dying pecan tree that probably hasn't made a nut in 20 years.
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