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Their nouns are few and stark./
Ours are numerous and dappled/
or subtly shaded and shadowed/
by circumstance and possibility.
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The drip of rank meat, his muzzle, his back-barbed tongue: red.
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When we would leave her place I never had a firm idea where I was taking her except I knew - and she knew - that eventually we'd end up back at my place. We did this a lot when her husband, Mack, was out of town. Every couple of weeks his job took him to…
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the/ orange/ tastes/ welcome
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Assimilated wheat germ
integrated ant worm
the capital of brazil.
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I am tired of playing the old game: Saying something old in a new way. So let me do the opposite:
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The Viper turns so quickly that Father's grabbing hand now faces its head instead of its tail.
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Black tagliatelle with squid and funghi porcini. He didn't understand why they called it a special, it had been in the menu since day one they had opened.
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Nothing about it//
is attractive- its color, it’s design,/
it’s market value. I leave it be and watch
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A son packs his bag - bottled water, extra masks, and jerky. Mom paces behind him. “Don't go.”
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. All was confusion in the Lubrecht house. Baby Lubrecht had discovered that his favorite blankey, thought by him to have been lost, was in fact being used by his older sister, Lilly Lubrecht.…
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This weekend was supposed to be about intellect and soul-mating, but, like all others, it's turned into body and longing. You sit in my passenger seat and I let you smoke in my wee car with the windows rolled down. We've come from a wedding, a fairy ring, a…
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It’s beautiful to look at and to hold/
though true musicians would be appalled/
by the black plastic
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the future wrapped up in a dream
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"What is a vageena?" I wanted to know.
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If you want job security on this planet, you'd better study art.
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The javelin was cancelled after the unfortunate incident with Mrs Parker last year, but no one could have predicted this year’s sack race tragedy.
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We stopped at the Western Summit of the Mohawk Trail. Below Richland lay in the valley. I could see all the way to New York State and well into Vermont. From memory, I picked out the Hoosac River running south under the railroad
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Three months had passed since the grease fire melted Jasmine's face.I sat beside her on the hospital bed and held her clamy hand as she trembled. "No more stir-fry," I joked. The doctor and nurse faked a chuckle. Jasmine might have, but the bandages muffled…
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He thought the scarab was bad luck. I knew too little about omens to argue.
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The Numbers will never romp up the stairs from the laundry room to slip warm socks on your feet on a winter’s night.
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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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"I accept it," Leo said in a low voice. "I accept it all. I know who I am, I know who you are, I might even know who Martin is, now. We all have to share this. I think I will forgive you, because I can'
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Matthias Fenstermacher loved onions, but hated slicing them, and so he labored to produce a tearless variety. His first attempt was indeed tearless--instead of weeping, the slicer was overcome by fits of uncontrollable giggles. The potential hazard was
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They knew every word.
They knew EVERY word!
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Cellulite is legal to have, either way.
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The bird studies me, we lock stares, with no care for who blinks first, birds don’t do macho stand-off.
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“What is the sickness that you have?” Colin behind the glass wondered.
“Too much world,” said Anise Fish.
“We have that in common.”
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