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PORNOGRAPHY First He went across the floor to where she sat. One sleeve of her shirt dropped to show her shoulder, salted and brown. One hundred fish filled the wave. Now, he said. Now is now. Second The car wouldn't…
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There were avocados splayed across menus like 1950′s pinup girls–all thigh and curve. Avocados in California omelets. Avocados split and diced, sprayed with lime, slapped on bagels, served with tomato.
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Five years ago, on January 15, 2009, Flight 1549 took off for Charlotte, North Carolina and, 3 minutes later, made an emergency landing in the Hudson River, with no serious harm to anyone but the geese who caused the problem. (They were liquefied into something…
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Clayton had a grin like the hand of a beast that stretched as long as her gravel road...
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Occasionally, I look down and spit.
Not caring that it originates from
the deepest hole in my lungs,
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“I can’t believe you went ahead and got pregnant without me,” I said.
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There was a children’s lit theme running through the party. Aside from Annemarie’s costume, there was a Harry Potter, a Pinocchio, and a Grinch.
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"What mouths could not say, hands did."
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"There is something in the air. It makes people sick, makes them want to die. They
cannot inhale too deeply for fear that it will turn them mad."
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The night we crossed the Madres my father stuffed his Stetson full of cash.
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That Bronte woman had me painted like Eminem’s Stan
Or a droog from Kubrick
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Leaves dance their way down,unfazed by this September heat. Bus stop routines set already-summer ended years ago.A chipmunk scampers undera parked truck while once againthe young man does his morning…
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The thunder rolled like an old Bob Dylan tour...
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“No names,” she said. “I am the mysterious woman, and you are the handsome stranger.”
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Pauleen tries to split open her legs because she doesn’t understand how to love someone without them.
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The drip of rank meat, his muzzle, his back-barbed tongue: red.
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They discovered the baby in the grass, under the snapping cotton sheets.
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The child closed her eyes again. Outside was sparkling, sharp looking, when she blinked he’d be here, like when she went to sleep and found outside had been whitened with snow. She closed her eyes and opened them, then closed them again. When she opened
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They stood at the intersection waiting for the light to change so they could cross the highway.
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“Mommy,” the voice was thin as a fledgling's. “I'm here, baby,” I said. An arm rose from the pavement and small fingers wound themselves into my…
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"I was hit by an Amtrak train and dragged a hundred feet, and I'm going to die from smoking cigarettes."
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It went like this: We were at the river. It had been a long day. The sun set over the hill tops, now. Me and Danny sat by the edge with buckets of water full of small fish and some dead crab that we'd got from the market, earlier and looked out over the small waves the…
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Train whistles in wintertime made him feel lonely.
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I like to think of my poetry as fungus, sprouting out of the dank and fertile soil of my imagination.
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leaves of a season/float into a brook among/bubbles fit to burst.
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Amid the swerve and pulse of hungry bodies Girma Dali picks his spot, a tissue-wide patch of net where's he going to strike. A green-jerseyed defender closes in on him his brute momentum unleashed like a kamikaze pilot swooping into enemy orbit, his lunging body makes…
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the constant inner jabber
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The scaffolding had been difficult to construct. The rock floor of the bluff offered no purchase, so he'd been forced to anchor braces to the trees behind, then span some thirty feet. A cantilevered gallows reached another fifteen feet past the stage...
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I’m aware I will never be a woman the night you leave me for another city
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Rounding a corner, Clarissa wiped out and hit the floor chin-first. She wailed and the dildos skittered away under a display.
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