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4. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
> > (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
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In his dreams, he swam in piles of pills. Sometimes the piles were infinite, other times the were contained, tonight the pills were intense shiny reds, chalky yellows, deep blues and matte purples and swirled around in a children's inflatable castle. Derek swam happily,…
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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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I wanted my sister to not be in that box. I wanted my parents to laugh again. I wanted my friends to actually be my friends and not call me hurtful names behind my back. I wanted my awful cousin to have never come into my room in the middle of the night. I…
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Is there a recipe for / lasting happiness?
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Shannon refused to jump from the castle drawbridge to the gigantic truck tire sunk halfway down in the playground quicksand. He just stood there-arms folded across his chest, bony knees sticking out from beneath ratty cutoffs-in silence, looking to Rollie
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I watch my brother carry her into the hospital, and I love him with parts of myself I didn’t know were capable of love. I love my brother with the space behind my eyes, the skin between my fingers, the ends of my hair, the crease in my neck. I love him wi
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I don't want no laugh track
I'm trying to find something that's real
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At this time of night, the fluorescence makes his eyes bleed. The muscles in his legs are tight; walking's more of a necessity than anything else. Alexander pushes the shopping cart down the endless gray tile floors of the Grand Union on 35.
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I may be the shadow that I am, but I only ever loved you.
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This is the story of the man whose wife lived in his neck. Every morning, he would turn to her and say, "Hello, Sweetheart. How was your night?" and she would answer, Brilliant! What else?
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The end is rehearsed over and over;/
in a world without heaven all is farewell.
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No fuckin' way, Maude. Excuse me, but you know I can't stand that bag of wind. No way.
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French pee runs stronger, less minty. In France the world' a pissoir.
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"Lately I've been thinking a baby's the only way I might be able to hang on to you."
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My wife and I are cat people. Indeed, that's how we met. We met at a wake.
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After breakfast, he dresses and heads / for the blackjack tables.
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wrenched its lower back trying so hard to lift too many stacked November clouds off the newly shaved prickly heads of the slowly freezing trees,like ring weights,and had to spend the last of its hours setting in a small square box in…
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It’s not just the mailman. It’s the logo on the mailbox down the street. It’s the uniform. It’s any man or woman in the whole unsettling profession.
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After nine months, I was granted early parole...
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He'd tend the door himself in high lace up boots, orange rhinestone hot pants, a tight black t-shirt, and black boa with orange swirl.
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He drifted for years: No forwarding. No phone.
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They discovered the baby in the grass, under the snapping cotton sheets.
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The rain fell from the roof. It fell from my voice and and my eyes. Toshiro's Kukichiro stomped gutshot through the mud with his katana. Young and beautiful, Mifumi died there on the screen though he doesn't really die for fifty or more years, they think from something…
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Solitude is such an excellent alternative to suicide.
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If ever I read a poem aloud
It will not be from a podium’s shelter
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I keep my life very ordered. Order for me is security. I am sure of some things. Like the fact I work five nights a week, and sleep during the day.
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And without further ado, The Author.
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the ugliness will not be denied
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