1997 21 14
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I don't want / to write about the body indulged, desires / denied, tortures invented, pleasures innate
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1996106
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—Pretty tulips, said the woman.
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199600
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author's note: the borgs in this story have been programmed to think of themselves as IT and in speech refer to selves as YOU* Though IT too had ball and socket joints, the Borg could not sit down to face ITs inquisitor. While IT felt the need to clean up the fallen…
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1996107
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god bless my shapeless head. we are good at becoming older. i feel incredibly negative all the time.
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19961415
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There he was, naked and covered in green mud
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199685
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Inspired by my last writers' workshop, where encouragement is key.
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199670
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"Do you have to call your brother a loser? He is not a loser and that was just uncalled for"
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1995124
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all / the secret letters/ ever dreamed up
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199566
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When I wake up and look to my left, will you be there with me, snoring like an asthmatic bear?
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199582
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The depth of her love for Briana could only be heard on the 80’s ballads station fumbling from the stereo in Madi’s car, awkward, just like her smile.
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199542
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To write a good poem, one needs nothing but the whole intent of goodness.
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19941311
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I am constricted by rings. The weight of self crushes me.
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199422
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Once or twice he sees her around town when he’s out driving but other than that, I mean, it’s not like he was stalking her, he didn’t know where she went to school or what she did for a part-time job, he didn’t care, he wasn’t interested.
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199462
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The figure was covered in a light blue chenille bathrobe, splayed out on her back on the floor by the glass door, her hair done up in large curlers, a slipper lying askew by her left foot. Richie crouched near the face and the rancid flame of bourbon lea
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1994104
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They live a simple life..two solitudes by lamplight.
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199410
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Elin and I had religious differences about the garage. To her the garage required regular sweeping and organization--it was an extension of our house. Elin believed dust and mold to be manifestations of inner sin. I insisted that they were agents of evolu
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199473
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Roanne banged the chiva, turned tricks, and ran out of road.
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19932318
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in my youth I was enamored of the moon—that is to say, lunacyI applauded the bizarre in natureI appropriated the gratuitous from dreamsI drank brashness and frenzy from bookswhat mad things I did!(throwing a bucket of water on the naked couple in the bed)what…
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199341
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She comes in with her white bag with its floral patterns scattered, almost accidentally, all around it
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199377
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The mountains of humility went silent, / the rain of regency dried its eyes
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1993135
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She slipped into a silky sheath dress, and stepped into black sequined heels just as the doorbell rang. Her date had arrived to take her to his much touted Art opening in town. Reaching under the bathroom sink for a final mist of hair spray she realized too late…
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199360
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“In the process, I’ve created this memory track. Yet had the sense that I had to make fixed memories move as illusion, that they move as illusion.”
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19932712
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Nothing has changed//
except the toys and fashion.
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1993157
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My mind has started to finish thoughts at 77 Words. These are just a few.
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199342
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If you’re Frederick in this moment, you are watching from that balcony and start to scream your fool head off. Maybe you just think you scream, and you might have screamed, but what you really do is clutch at your chest, black dots spanning each eyeball,
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199331
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The shark’s voice was dark, warm and scratchy, like dying embers.
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199335
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My mother and I are close We talk like friends I tell her about people I'm dating She gets excited for me And she asks how it's going When I tell her I think I'm gay She says nothing She does not ask about the woman I am seeing She does not ask how I am doing …
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199355
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Crawl to the dark places I love most, loud music and off key laughter, glimmering green and brown bottles eagerly holding the dim lights overhead inside themselves like ransomed stars.
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199322
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He pulls on his wispy goatee and shifts his weight a few times from one foot to the other. That doesn’t help. It rarely does, to be honest.
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19921311
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they were open weekends if we needed to bring him in for euthanasia.
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