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The guy stretches out his arm as he rounds up the herd of ducks that only want to bob. He pulls down his sleeve over a heart tattoo, faded from being seen so many times. It’s a skinny sort of heart tattoo, an askew heart from where I stand, an arrow fro
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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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It was Warren who introduced me to this bouncer fellow named John O’Toole. Warren met O’Toole and his wife, Angelina, through the dark prison poet Eugene Forcer. Forcer and O’Toole were the best of friends until a riff erupted between them one drunken n
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Maddy knew how to make a sauce. It embraced the meat in a thick, buttery ooze.
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my God, I have no time, no time
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I am gonna pound you face through that plate glass protective door until everyone who needs help can get in without your judgy face looking at them.
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I dreamt I was spinning down the coast in a convertible. It was warm, and the top was down.
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It is a sunny day in the autumn of the patriarch.
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"Dad, I already told you about your wife. She’s not coming."
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My man wears chartreuse shoes.!
He wears chartreuse shoes like a new king
right there on Main St.!
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the array of regularly spaced wavering human forms floating upright seems to extend endlessly in all directions.
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There were days in my youth when, through no fault of their own, my parents could not drive me the seven mile trip to my elementary school. When I got older they bought me a bike and that proved duly adequate as conveyance. But when I was six years in age
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Paper Bird, Devotchka, TV On The Radio
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cymbals guy — another way of saying hey turdshitface haul your skinnyass to the front of the bus.
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I can’t take my eyes off a tall blonde with green eyes. I catch her eye.
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The blue whale in the bathtub weighed one hundred tons and wore a grin like the Cheshire cat on steroids. Her smile stretched from wall to wall. Her blowhole scraped the ceiling. Sam never learned how she crammed her tail down into the drainpipe,…
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Mama hung them everywhere. It started with just a few, in our apartment and outside on the brick. She made walls into windows.
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Half-pint Ball canning jars, each labeled in earnest capital letters, took up a whole wall of Teeny’s bedroom. Inside each jar was air she had collected from some place important to her life.
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God's real name is Frank, and he stops by all the time. He tries to dump that cheap Xmas candy on us.
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the swan drives a car ( window down; wing half hanging out ) …
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They'd taken so much: ivory, rubber, copper, gold. Wealth for the grabbing. No remorse.
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Emi however, took her sister’s arm and looked at the bandage. Her normal green eyes stared coldly at the wound made by one of the large centipedes. Mayumi realized there was some sense of emotion from Emi wanting to come out.
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the moon's got it out for
the far-sighted
punkish usuper supping
on the upswing of
a downward slope
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We fold it end over end, meeting in the middle where she takes it, and I let go...
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It’s the unfinished sentences
Of the children on our refrigerators
That worry me the most
It’s the Fake News
It’s all the people
Living in their shopping carts
Without shoes
It’s the abandoned shoe
On the street
And the Abandoned S
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We invent our beauties//
as we find them and engineer/
our horrors
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We didn't wear shoes in the summer, except for Sunday school and church. The soles of our feet were black and tough as shoe leather.
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What is writing, Rick B.? You appear in your photo to be more handsome than your first brother. Sudden memory appears: "Question mark? Curvy: cock. Exclamation! Stiff: prick."
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He was supposed to be a garden gnome. Give pause to the squirrels, keep an eye on the impatiums. We found him at Wegman’s. He looked hopeful and observant.
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