1821 5 4
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Never touch David Letterman's neck!
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182121
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"Look, Ted, I'm on a timer. It's really hell here, you can't imagine. And I have a chance to get paroled early, if you do me a solid."
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182152
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I considered explaining that the universe is still evolving and changing, but the look on her face said GENESIS ONE.
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1821157
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It is a sunny day in the autumn of the patriarch.
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18211514
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I wrote this during a poetry workshop at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with Carolyn Forché. January, 2015. So much more has happened since that stunning week.
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18211110
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Some of them are notorious tweakers. Nobody epitomizes the cowboy-outlaw biker more than the ironworkers, who are wired on Black Beauties they sell on breaks.
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18211512
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You anchor the real
You make love to the true
I am bound to you in consecration
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182152
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Some books are like old friends and when you read them, you no longer feel alone.
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182022
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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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182053
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Having sex with her there made me feel like a child molester, I said. She said it made her excited.
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182033
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Waking in the middle of the night, tangled in the hotel sheets, I wanted to hear the story again: their pilot friend, the war, his specialty. "It's just a screw, son," Dad said, "nothing exotic."
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182022
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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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182000
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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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1820108
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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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182012
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Moon Boy sits atop the hill's crest and watches Moon Girl.
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182066
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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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182062
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"What is a vageena?" I wanted to know.
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182087
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We want our lives even-cut, …
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182021
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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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182033
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Susan was twenty-four when it happened again, but she had neither the patience nor the attachment to see it through.
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18201814
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Also in development,/
the anatomically perfect robot/
pool boy and naughty maid,
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1820106
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He is drilling the door of a safe to access the keys he locked inside.
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181921
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Mrs. Noah eyed the thickening clouds from the front stoop. Noah was still out in the yard kicking up sand in disgust, arguing with himself the whole time. Piles of cedar timber lay strewn all about. Maybe if they’d lived even three days’ journey clos
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1819114
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Mounds of earth and grassless ground
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181920
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The cabin has windows all around, like ribbon tying a birthday present.
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1819148
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When Kat returned home from The East Street Wars, she learned that her epileptic lover, White Dog, died from madness
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18191610
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1819115
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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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181922
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Cinnamon and smoke
infuse the days that shorten,
chill, accelerate.
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