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the ugliness will not be denied
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Life seemed okay…for the most part.
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Over fifty plastic flamingos stood silently at attention... as if eating sea urchins out of our lawn.
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I’ve been such a fool, so reckless and untrue.
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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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His head was usually full of ah ha!, a luminescence that folded around obstacles like smoke.
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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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You might as well be the man on the moon. Once touching your face was quotidian. When I tallied each day's pleasures, you, in this room or that, counted too much for me, I think. I stopped record keeping. I'm …
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When I died, she said, she was going to have me cremated and put my ashes in the cats’ litter box.
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feathered waves of tangerine peach
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The dancer was a little chubby, but I didn't mind. It gave her more to shake.
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Emma pushes through the door of the corner market, aiming briskly for her car, keys in one hand, grocery bag in the other, shoulder bag slung. Best not to make eye contact with the loitering boozers and bikers from the bar next door. Double take. Can't…
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Solitude is such an excellent alternative to suicide.
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Copernicus spied/a new centrifugal spin:/Bosch saw what he meant.
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She stepped into a pair of high heeled slippers and began to dance. She was Salome, a witch, dancing like the most beautiful, the most skilled whores of Paris.
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“What I really want to know is, why is a straight guy called Caspar opening a lesbian leather bar in Berlin anyway?” Shona asked. “Schöneberg must really be going to the dogs.”
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His mouth smiled but his icy eyes did not. "You like it?," he asked with a thin deflated voice. "Old family recipe. Enjoy."
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Truth came out of it, a little bug that hovered there...
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The stand is designed to clasp two guitars, one on either side. She cradles an Ovation in her arms, a guitar variety our high school friends used to call a soup bowl. In the stand is an acoustic-electric hybrid that I toyed with for ten…
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We brought flowers for our dead lovers
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If ever I read a poem aloud
It will not be from a podium’s shelter
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Buddy was in a garage band. They were pretty good. “Soul Harbor“ they called themselves.
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leaning over the banister, her Christmas waist making the wood swoon and creak, a warning sign if there ever was one...
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The end is rehearsed over and over;/
in a world without heaven all is farewell.
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When Kim handed me some of her husband’s condoms—“Here, use these”—out of one of their bedroom dresser drawers, could she sense the astonishment I was trying my best not to show?
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tell me about the time you lived in Carolina, and what my smile does
for 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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