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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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178185
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It was the first time I had ever seen a possession.
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17812313
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I am abandoned to the mundane/
calculations of a small mind/
trapped by small considerations
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178163
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You took up residence on the dark side of things, a bolthole in a wind-flayed right angle of a tower block where pigeons and suicides tumbled blackly on the air currents. You set about drifting off from who you were on a tide of cheap whisky and bad poetry, graduating…
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178120
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The cabin has windows all around, like ribbon tying a birthday present.
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1781107
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She can never say why, but guilt rides her bones
like the spirit. She rubs worry raw.
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1781119
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He asked me to bury him in Vegas.
Instead, I had him cremated in Trenton.
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178133
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They said AK, AK, if you want to come here, if you want to come to Antioch, you have to bring your A+ game. If you want to run with the big boys. That’s what they said. So I brought my A+ game.
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178112
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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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1780114
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Mounds of earth and grassless ground
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17801010
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Yellow Pages season is on us now, and Jimmy's drivin' a contract route. He'll head out to the San Joaquin where they print, and load ‘em in the back of his Tundra with the high side walls until the whole damned rig sags low,
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178088
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dicks, skulls and upside down crosses
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17801512
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(I'd appreciate some feedback on this very weird story.) A Frosted Mini Wheat walks in to a bar...
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178021
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I look at that wall, it has piss-stain yellow paint and water scars from several years of leaky pipes. I say I wouldn’t mind that, if he took out some of that wall.
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177943
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Born, he stood up. He wore nothing as often as possible
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177922
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Next to you, the mother tightens her grip on her stroller. The young teenager tears her gaze from her mobile phone for an instant.
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While I was still new at Black & Twigg, shortly before Thanksgiving, Percy brought me a handwritten memo to type, the subject “Turkey Hunt,” addressed to all Black & Twigg employees in the San Francisco office from management. It said that the firm…
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177962
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After she died, clearing out her safe deposit box at the local bank, I found more numberplates.
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1779139
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1779106
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He is drilling the door of a safe to access the keys he locked inside.
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177954
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177810
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Conjoined - her hardened nipple brushing, softly, against him, his chest hair caressing her skin like a thousand hungry lovers’ fingers – the perfect moment lasted eternity.
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177822
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I flung the basketball at the hoop and Cooper shagged the ball. He was the luckiest bastard I knew. ...
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177885
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And because the film is French, the camera pauses / long moments at the curve of her neck, it watches/ her finger vermilion tulips in a vase. Her new lover,/ a wisp of a man, looks good in leather./ The camera pans quickly across beige suede,/ rests long
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177831
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We learned to dance beneath a gazebo / in Spring Lake Park / We were fourteen
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17781715
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With such a world/
one must invent a heaven
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177877
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I want to be that daring gardener who ploughs up her front yard -- to the horror of the Neighborhood Association.
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17781814
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Also in development,/
the anatomically perfect robot/
pool boy and naughty maid,
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177832
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There's still a swatch of jelly on his lower lip. Did you notice? That's not the way it's done, even on the tractor.
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177800
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Poppy de Witte was content to spend her summers in Cape Cod, where her family owned a small beach house considerably less stifling than their spacious apartment on Park Avenue.
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