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far beyond the far beyond
sparkles the stars like sparkles
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For one glittering moment
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I almost kept him
on the shelf with all the trophies.
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“I’m going home,” I answered, but the word home seemed inappropriate. I hadn’t told the truth and felt something, not guilt as guilt was far too strong, but still I felt something that moved me enough to amend my answer: “I’m going to the place where I gr
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She tells Tuesday's lover that there's nothing wrong with cheap thrills without anesthesia,
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When we would leave her place I never had a firm idea where I was taking her except I knew - and she knew - that eventually we'd end up back at my place. We did this a lot when her husband, Mack, was out of town. Every couple of weeks his job took him to…
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I believe I will become a bear, snuggle up in a deep cave, coil myself inside my fur, close my eyes on hurting images, turn a deaf ear to the uproar of the world. Bolt my door to the deceiving voices outside. Sleep. Forget. Wait, as we wait for spring, for the violet and…
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Flexeril and Hydrocodon... For my back
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To touch our skin was filthy,
to spread our legs a mortal sin. You closed
the keyholes to keep us apart, so we used them
to keep you out and keep our secrets to ourselves.
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I didn't hear your last words or see your lasteyes. I didn't reach you in time, so I sat by your corpse,silently saying goodbye. I am in that process,not sour, not sweet, that yoked speaking which can't(because the heart won't let it) utter its whisperedlast word, but…
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born to be mistreated by beasts in human shapes
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I staggered away in the storm
tears frozen to my cheeks.
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I have become interested in Carracci / Ludovico Carracci
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It was a dire and dun-colored year when groupies wept and autograph seekers put down their pens.
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When you return home, one year to the day that you left us, you will wonder if you can do it all over again.
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Sixteen years married, and now she wants a wedding ring. He brings her a box of Cracker Jack. She doesn’t think it is funny.
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A farm girl raised on fresh eggs and weather forecasts...
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They say, we have hangnails.
I say, I have a bruised leg.
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with images overflowing with delicate thought scenes with nightmarish wet dreams
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I dreamt I was spinning down the coast in a convertible. It was warm, and the top was down.
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What's that snitch doin' here?
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I tell my woman friend the new man's penis is too large. I tell her once. She asks me later whether I asked about it at the doctor's—large cock, she calls it, and I say I told the doctor my boyfriend's in a wheelchair.
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Life was small. It was tiny even, so tiny it was hard to see it sometimes. Life curled up to make itself even smaller, to fit into the kinds of holes that insects crawl into to get away from bigger insects. Life was sad. Life didn't want to be an insect.
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It's so far to get to where we aren't inthe way of someone's destructive progress.I'm only walking in my own gardensnow, but the big blue house is like an emptiedout envelope. I guess that makes this themissing letter. I don't know your heart's newaddress, but I once…
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The sky was an over-bleached sheet, stretched to the point of ripping. Everything worn but clean. He was saying he'd be happier if we lived in Canada. The sun seemed very close, like a star at the top of a Christmas tree. Maybe I could pull it down. Our baby had…
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Being simple like this, knowing a thing is done by doing.
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(I'd appreciate some feedback on this very weird story.) A Frosted Mini Wheat walks in to a bar...
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I ask because she's the animal person, not me. She understands animal behavior.
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