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I may be the shadow that I am, but I only ever loved you.
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That's what friends told him.He looks at the unpacked boxes around the apartment, hoping he hadn't packed any of her stuff in his haste.
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What Mohammed didn’t tell me was the house was owned by drug dealers and inhabited by wealthy playboys who urged me over and over again to accompany them to the bathhouse.
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...I stared at my good dog with the same entreaty I saw in her eyes. Save us. Please.
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Mars' circled state is slain, no bird of Jove That roosts protected in its green youth's flush; Its storms no more bring moistness from above, From blue beads cradled in one thunder's flash. The god of War was husband once to Love: Her arms were …
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Her skin is muddy earth/
I'd gladly play in.
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A nun once told me to watch my tongue. This is not an easy thing to do.
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The taste of / what is denied us is always sweet
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The drinking will continue/
until morale improves
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wild eyes open your iris sunrise
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I bought the goldfish at different pet shops out of town, a few at a time, until I had two hundred or more in the freezer.
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We’re all competitive and drunk.
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In between ketchup-covered fries, a Quarter Pounder, and a vanilla shake, catty comments, and lots of laughs, Marylou slipped in her announcement, a grenade in a rose garden. “I'm pregnant,” she said.
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Steve Bancroft’s future wife showed up at his door that same night, slamming her hand loudly against the door and shouting for him. “Steve, Steve, wake up. Damn it, come on. You forgot to pick me up at the airport. Who are you in there with? I said wa
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Oh, and take off all your jewelry unless you want your relatives sifting you through a window screen looking for your diamond.
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It’s always fun and easy/
to punish the poor
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I looked at her, shook my head and tried to smile. She smiled back, beaming a radiance that pushed away the chill.
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Momma called them Vaughens, "a outfit," and said, "they shoulda throwed the book at that Darla Jean."
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My wife thinks I should be committed.
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“I will become a respected novelist!” proclaimed Billy.
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She refuses to let her eyes cry. Her eyes played tricks on her and showed her one thing was really another. They don't deserve to cry.
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Crea grew up above a pet store and now she dreams of cats. There are too many of them to name, a slinking mess of calico, tabby, tortoise-shell, black and white. There are more each night. They whisper to her, words made of hissing mewls. During the…
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Leo, leo, leo, leo, the word itself imprinted on my brain, carved with a pearl handled blade into my cerebral cortex, into the medulla, burrowed deep into my dreams, I miss your kissing.
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all / the secret letters/ ever dreamed up
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The moonlight illuminated Dahlia’s bare breasts. She remembered when Gerard used to appreciate them.
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A plague of dykes mattered not. This spider-girl had driven the world of thought from Borden’s mind.
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It wasn't meant to happen like this— the shutter, the feeling of breathlessness when he touched her shoulder, even after he had pointed out all of the things she had done incorrectly throughout the day. They had been married for five years in February, and as…
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