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A block after his first crime, he found a bookstore to commit another.
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178711
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Kurosawa was silent as we traipsed through the destruction, carefully side-stepping piles of sodden pages and heaps of swollen, broken-backed texts. Workers in coveralls used wide brooms to push water toward a floor-drain at the back of the store.
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178765
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There are glasses in the sinkfrom the water that I drink.And the books in my li-braryare not dumb and ordinary.There's a doggie at my door;did I go to the pet store?There's a puppy on my couch-ywho was happy, now she's grouchy.Was a writer, now an authoror an otter; no, an…
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178622
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And you don't like much. No handholding or brand name sweaters. No phone calls late at night. This is not you. And you certainly don't go for kisses in the rain or cards from the grocery store with…
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17861415
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There he was, naked and covered in green mud
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17861513
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I staggered away in the storm
tears frozen to my cheeks.
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178682
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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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178662
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Did you take out the trash? Did you water the ficus? Did you cancel the cable? Did you take my black sweater? Did you tell the neighbors? Will you get the friends? What about the cat? Will you send me a Christmas card? Will I tear it up? Did you know…
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178621
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If you know how, all bodies can be read like books, like poems, like scraps of song
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178562
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It was as if a car bomb went off in Beaver Cleaverville.
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1785176
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Tasha loved to tease the rain. She sat still with her legs folded on the bench, never once looking the clouds in the eye.
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178584
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At first we envied Tom and Betty’s dancing. Friday nights at The Big Club, Saturdays at Mickey’s, and none of us can remember a time we saw them in the arms of another partner.
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178511
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They say ehmand for almond in the San Joaquin Valley.
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I always step around his mess...
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1785159
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She tells Tuesday's lover that there's nothing wrong with cheap thrills without anesthesia,
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178585
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Inspired by my last writers' workshop, where encouragement is key.
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178474
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My mother told me never to trust girls who speak from the side of their mouths. But Kat, with her rainbow bracelets and flat vans, can't speak any other way. A creature of A.D.D. and zip up leather, studded belt and the next No Wave, has mistaken me for the last…
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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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178487
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After school watching American Bandstand with my two best friends, all three of us lusting after Bunny Gibson who’s all of sixteen, stacked, and very fucking hot.
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178444
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Some poems slip out easily
Thick and solid
Well-oiled and fully formed
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was yesterday’s dawn breaking in the high sky/ meant for us?
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178462
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We came to the furthest reach of hell-
A place that email users know well.
The woman or man whose unmitigated gall
Causes him or her to hit "Reply all".
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I found my patch by accident whilst out picking medicinals ta cover a load o' dead constrictors. I tested the patch in the traditional way an' got a bit stoned on jes' a nibble o' a fresh sprout. Course, everyone knows the sprouts 're more concentrated t
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The bungalow was unlocked. The screen
door was unhooked. The trout on the
counter was deboned.
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178311
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Whispers flew, like wild darts across the room. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say. Right then, it wasn’t my job to figure things out; it was my job to cry.
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178386
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There was something wrong with this picture. Was he the man she had slept with last night?
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Beside her door there was a black squirrel in the dogwood she saw scratched his armpit.
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I want to break that mug. (Break him.)
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