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How a breeze feels evaporating sweat on neck and forearms.
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I’m practically naked; coral sundress, very damp panties, black with lace insets. I know I still smell like pussy.
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Suddenly a hand shot up on the other side of a hedge. “I’ll have one of those!” cried someone who remained invisible.
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the cheek of you! to dream/ upon my sheets in schoolboy peace/ when here i lie,/ each second spent/ a tranquilized tiger cursed with awareness/ for all the flesh so near its maw.
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If I wanted cautious I wouldn't be in her bed. She would only sleep with her husband. Adultery is not for pussies. So I dive back into the conversation which has made my dick limp and ask where I'm wrong in our post-coital chatter and she says it doesn't
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This latest married man who lives at a great distance has leeched her energy in that very particular way such men do. Next to him, I am as interesting as long division.
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One by one I lost my desires.
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My first winter in Massachusetts feels medieval: cold, dark, and endless.
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ARROGANT MAGNOLIA, the first to open all, poised ten feet above our fuss. …
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Their specialty is the roasted Australian hare, long ears intact, arranged on a bed of sassafras.
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I watch the seagulls making their quacking noises
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Her clothing style varies from grunge to glamor and . . . she always looks good.
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There are two, though, that stayed for more than just a little while: Marvin and Oscar. Marvin was married and that's all I have to say about that. Oscar wasn't and it seemed as though he wasn't planning on getting married either. What a petty man he was.
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Dinner conversation reminds me of the chatter of birds. Happy talk. Nothing real.
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ornery women / in tall hats, suspender dads, kids deformed with / ribbons
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what smells like love may not be love at all
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Somehow the world survives
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Their breath stank inside my lungs and tamped down the very minute amount of remorse I had left. It was replaced with contempt. Their fear warmed my cold sensibility as I steeled myself.
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I don't know how long I was down on the curb. When I came around it took several minutes to realize that it wasn't the moon overhead at all but a street light and the sticky feeling stuff I was lying in was, yeah, my blood. And the hand on my shoulder wasn't hers. I…
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A woman with fallen breasts is attempting to hang her laundry on a string. Two tall men mount horses and ride them into the meadow. A squad of children wrap themselves around a playground.
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What a beautiful Thing / Urine is
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The body is an endless safari
filled with rhino sightings
and encounters with antelope.
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1. Everyone disappears.2. Stars map themselves.3. The moon fills her bathtub over and over. You can't watch it for too long or you go mad, shouting, "Just get in, get in!"4. The ghosts of certain broken poets stand under apple trees and lean their hands on the…
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He runs a mail-order business from a storefront and distributes a catalog of disappeared things.
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One sneaker in the middle of the A-Plus Pawn lot...
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On a night in 1952 he walked her home in the freezing rain, past the nativity in front of St. Mark's, sharing his flask of schnapps. Look, my fingers are prunes, she said. He kissed her hands and said, Let's name our firstborn Adlai. She laughed and said, No. Dwight.…
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I didn't go to China, however. I would have gone there in debt wearing their clothing. I was afraid to owe even $4,000 (what I still owe) living overseas.
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