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The hair on my arms have greyed, or so that's how it looks to me. It's been 12 years since we last spoke. I think I haven't aged too well. I bought a rocking chair.
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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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that is a fair description of our family if I add the disclaimer that the girls are whores and we don’t have much in common.
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She was thrilled when she learned that her best friend was having an affair.
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Great Uncle did stunts in silents and shot a man in a cowboy one-reeler, then vanished to the hills like Roy Earle in High Sierra.
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Before the days of “customer experience,” Eddie figured out whatever information he could about his clients. He asked them for business cards, recorded their phone numbers from the reservation book, snapped photos of them in his mind…
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Where we live, at the edge of the foothills at the east edge of town, fire is always a worry during the summer, and this has been an exceptionally dry year.
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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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"What say we adjourn to the bedroom and I give you a little demonstration of sexual acrobatics?”
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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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....the first/
in a long history of indignities.
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Her skin is muddy earth/
I'd gladly play in.
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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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The moonlight illuminated Dahlia’s bare breasts. She remembered when Gerard used to appreciate them.
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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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Eyes so much deeper, that the internal flow could not hope to equal the intensity fired beyond iris, pupil and sclera. So blue, that life could not exist in the fragile shape of his heart, blue veins outlining an ever enlargening circumference…
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I often thought about touching those slippery flames between my thumb and index finger.
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I liked the taste in my mouth, mint and cigarettes and fresh and filthy.
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The man of a thousand faces was defunct.
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She said he was missing the whole point: it was a decoration, not an actual pillow. You were supposed to place it somewhere artful.
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Nora never dated Scandinavians.
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Leonard didn't know that cute girl well, hardly at all, but he really wanted to. She was his first real crush in Junior High. He got his chance and talked to her some one day while they were walking down the hall between classes. She actually spoke to him first. The bell…
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Tan my hide. Feed me to rabid / macaques.
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A constellation appears in the shape of Van Gogh’s missing ear.
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so one time the Holy Ghost come down to Stumptown
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I. When my lips mouth yours where they are…
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a bird who gives messages
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There’s not enough cigarette cloud to conceal her, malnourished and pale beneath blue and pink lights that summon 80s-era skate rinks. She saunters towards the center of the stage, asking her bored expression to convey detachment, while a DJ that fits the
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