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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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My real parents lived about 200 miles in the other direction from where we came. But long ago I determined they were too real.
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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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I would be proud to be your house rabbit. I make this case: I will listen flop-eared close to your every concern
and exhultation. If I doze off nudge me. I wake quickly.
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After Slick Daddy — aka Billy Ray Thompson — gave up driving his log truck and took up with playing and singing the blues full-time he was what you might call a hot property around the juke joints along Highway 61. The women didn't seem to mind…
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We sat all in a muffledlittle line up, on theconcrete lips of tomorrow'ssleepy chin, like all the world's good little children should, as the paradelimped itself slowly by, slapping itself against the young day'sexcitement like a damaged flattire, trying its…
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Every time I read a great line by another writer, I feel fear.
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I want you to kiss me like you’re listening to my tongue. I want you to hear the rhythm of my heart through my lips. Can you feel what I’m telling you? If you’re entering my borders, it doesn’t matter where - my mouth, my pussy, my ear... you’d better pay
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So then we had to worry about the Russian soldiers. When they heard we were Jewish, they said “How come the Germans didn’t kill all of you?”
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politics only add to assault and distract
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