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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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You anchor the real
You make love to the true
I am bound to you in consecration
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182322
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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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take back all the falderal
and friggin' fiddle dee dee
take back the mad murmuring
of ten minutes ago
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182366
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The man went into his backpack and pulled out his book of crossword puzzles. The deluxe edition with fifty percent more puzzles for free. It had been an impulse buy from the bookstore, cost him four…
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182366
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There is a push-up on the ceiling. I don't know how to get it down. I've tried hitting it with a broom. That just made it blow steam. I asked my wife, did you do push-ups on the ceiling? She did. Why? It's easier up there. The cat doesn't bother me. Well, you left…
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182344
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The signal sets the faint young boys into motion
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182321
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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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182362
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"What is a vageena?" I wanted to know.
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182387
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We want our lives even-cut, …
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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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182321
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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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182333
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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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18231814
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Also in development,/
the anatomically perfect robot/
pool boy and naughty maid,
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I stand at the edge of the water naked as a newborn. Tiny ripples lick my toes.
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It is a sunny day in the autumn of the patriarch.
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18231514
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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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182253
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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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182200
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said you loved me
told some jokes
aren’t you dying?
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182212
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Moon Boy sits atop the hill's crest and watches Moon Girl.
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182266
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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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1822106
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He is drilling the door of a safe to access the keys he locked inside.
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182252
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Some books are like old friends and when you read them, you no longer feel alone.
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182100
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I found him dead underneath a sycamore tree. I knew it was a sycamore tree because of all the acorns surrounding the body.
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182110
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"I always disliked such display of religious fervor. I dislike religious fervor. Period."
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182100
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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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Mounds of earth and grassless ground
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182100
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And Mickey said to the reporter, "I wrote a play for Richard. It is the wild play I performed with Richard. I think he will like this shit."
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