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My only brother. Frantic flesh clings to bone.
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180500
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I thought of Ruth burrowed deep in the nest of her closet and quickly jumped into the footlocker. I nearly stopped breathing as he entered his bunker.
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180473
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He had an addiction to elevating himself to higher levels of potential: some would call this ambition.
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1804168
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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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1804129
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in which creative destruction holds the heads of entire populations beneath the surface of the water in bathtubs until the bubbles stop
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180483
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“Who says?” she purred in reply
“They all do” he countered smiling , chewing on an ice cube
“All of them, huh?”
She leaned forward, raising a wicked left eyebrow and whispered,
“And just who are they, anyway?”
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18042414
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Our lives depend on/
engineers
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18042015
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Feminine, safe, though disembodied,/
she shapes your life in ways/
your mother never could.
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180300
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His footing unsure and his clothes covered in vomit, he grabs the railing and stumbles up the three steps. He pulls off his shirt, finds a cleaner area on the puke-covered garment, wipes sweat off his forehead, dripping wet from the humid, stormy night, a
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180376
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At noon on a weekday in the off season, when the trickle of tourists who wandered into the Mermaid Curio Shoppe had died out completely, she walked in with wet hair, leaving tiny puddles on the floorboards.
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180300
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Caroline smiles before reaching out to touch a shapeless shadow dancing on the wall, closing her eyes as the bumps in the primer serve brail to oncoming dreams.
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18031815
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I forgot how masterful you are, way better than a pickpocket. After our meeting, I drove home with one hand. It felt funny but I figured I'd absentmindedly put the other in my purse or tossed it into the backseat with my jacket. In my…
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180333
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IN BOX 12 OF DD FORM 214, the Department of Defense requires a narrative reason for every military discharge. Mine reads: Continued involvement of a discreditable nature with civilian and military authorities.
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180354
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You know how it is, one day a good friend sends you this long note telling you how-the-hell they are or aren't getting along in the frigging world
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180322
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Janice’s jaw dropped when I told her how much we could get for it. “Enough to never work again and get a nice new pair of these,” I said, squeezing her tits.
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180311
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Right away, like toadstools, there were crackpot theories. The first: that kids out on the lake dock, against fire department warnings...
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180210
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I’ve been here before.
it wasn’t you though—
it was her before you,
and then she before her …
before you.
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18021510
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. . . quit being so rigid, open up to the pasta.
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180210
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I've been invited to speak at Emerson College in Boston—it will be the summer of 2012, and I'll be speaking on running an online literary magazine; in this case, my own, Anderbo.com.
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180276
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She realised that things you can't prove can be more intimate than the things you know to be true.
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18012316
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They will take you, naked,
and put their tongues and fingers
into intimate, erogenous openings
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18012719
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On the bus I sat like an ounce.
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180188
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Out the window we could see the parking lot and, across the street, the Bijou Moonlight Laundromat.
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1801143
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You have a house (plural, as in Spain)
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180101
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The soft twin winds
of peace and harmony
flow through your nipples
It is not milk
that gives such flow
but the whiff of life’s
spirit, the wind
of poetry
the renewal
and the silence
of the love
you give me
I suck like a new
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180111
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Who do you think are the true intellectuals? I'm a fan of both Gore Vidal and Harold Bloom although most people can't stand either of them. George Plimpton is interesting...
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1801169
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She was as distant as Mao, someone I never met, but whom everyone carried in their eyes,
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180100
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She administers the alkaloids slowly,
soaking the muscles in blight,
the body tissue beneath into corrosion.
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18011815
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I murdered my inner child/
at 7 and neither denied/
nor confessed the act until now.
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180186
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"Love, against the dying of the light." (An unusual story about George Whitman, former owner of the revered & beloved Shakespeare & Company bookstore in Paris, France.)
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