1874 9 6
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People suck. They suck you down, and if you're not careful, they'll ruin you.
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187400
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"If only we could all look like that."
"Truly lovely … such a perfect face."
The gallery was busy that day.
But still the man and woman stood.
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187454
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Aubrey pulled close the wool cloak that used to belong to a pilgrim and wondered if some of that saintliness and pardon might rub off. The mail was late and the bushes damp, but at least years of living in the woods had taught Aubrey to avoid thorns…
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187400
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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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187491
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it’s women i’ve loved/
or men i owe money
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187483
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Sometimes they bleat like sheep when I shave in the shower. They live in a complex social order.
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187378
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I wake up with the taste of mud in my mouth. Ashy, sulfurous, charred, with traces of rotten shellfish.
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187355
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These are the small miracles we witness from my barrio stoop.
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187320
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Just thinking aloud, really. And by aloud, I mean typing for someone to read haha.
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187300
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The unfanged obscene had finally caught him in the night.
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187342
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and to adorn my hair I chose every kind of light
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1873189
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They left me on a gurney for hours...
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187310
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Amyra pressed her hands on the brick wall and rubbed it. She thought about hanging something on there, but she did not have the tools to make a hole. In fact, the thought of having a hole in the wall would be enough.
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18732914
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You say boxer briefs, I say pillbox hats
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187355
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His people eat soggy casseroles and smile with tight lips.
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187200
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stoplight - (haiku love series - #2)
eyes lock in a gaze
glimpses of my future spark
then you walk away
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187276
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He hasn't had a wedding ring in years. When George's knuckles began to swell — a little arthritis — his ring dug into his finger so bad his wife Loren took him to the ER and had it cut off. The ring, not the finger. He never knew there was a tool to cut rings,…
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18721611
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“If 'neighbor' applies to women who covet—'deliriously desire'—husbands from Angers, then one day he'll be your husband's neighbor," I say.
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187263
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She breezes through the door, cellphone to ear, with the confidence of the affluent. Can you look at my left rear tire, the dashboard indicator says it's low. Back to her phone, Oh, Marsha, hi, how are you, you gorgeous WOMAN, you!? Hey, I'm on my way to…
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187210
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"So" he started, which troubled me enough to turn back around and make such focused eye contact that I did not even notice his glass was again full, "you wanted to talk?"
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187283
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I want her life to pass in a world without meridian
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187111
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I am in the hallway, but I don’t sense it. That is to say: I don’t feel my body. I am like a phantom, a limbless entity floating, flailing.
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187100
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Tonight was no remarkable night. The sun rose and set without question, children’s hearts broke with truth, around the world millions of people lost someone they cared about, millions people fell in love. It was an average day—it was unremarkable. It w
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1871105
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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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187160
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Tonight, Bukowski and I drink together.
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18712313
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I am abandoned to the mundane/
calculations of a small mind/
trapped by small considerations
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187197
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we wipe the blood of our progress
from our hands.
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187100
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No one could understand. No one wanted to understand. They were all gripped with horror, fear flowing through every nerve in their body. Could it be a serial killer? Could it be an animal ? Could it be an accident? Or was this a prank gone bad ?
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187153
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I opened my switchblade mouth and sliced
through the scab of silence.
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187185
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