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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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I remember being sent a picture once from one of my old roommates, Louise, back in Chicago where I came from. The photo was taken when she’d come out for a visit to California. In the picture I am sitting on the front stairs of my house in the Rockridge
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181252
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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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181252
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Within a day, she had a scummy apartment which belonged to the government. It had cockroaches, which she was not used to. They churned her stomach, repulsive little things. Not even creatures. Two brains, she'd read: one in the head, one in the ass.
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If I wanted cautious I wouldn't be in her bed. She would only sleep with her husband. Adultery is not for pussies. So I dive back into the conversation which has made my dick limp and ask where I'm wrong in our post-coital chatter and she says it doesn't
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181154
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Never touch David Letterman's neck!
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181131
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I took it in my hands and used it on my lips. The taste was just hers: her touch, her smell, her breath in the winter nights. She was in this. Everything we had was in this tube.
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181121
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The air has its dark confessional, and I have mine. Hot is called raw by some, hate mixed with malice for others. I am only separated by this dark window of time from you, but you never feared the lovely or the lonely.
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We want our lives even-cut, …
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181133
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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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That morning, four children appeared in front of the train, which was ready to depart
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181153
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The thing was, though, she couldn’t shake the image of that dead dog she had found inside the black trash bag she thought could be first base, right before the twins said, Screw the game, let’s swing.
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He is drilling the door of a safe to access the keys he locked inside.
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181053
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Hunger only makes people hungry, but bad hair can ruin your whole day.
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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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181088
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I can confirm nothing/
but impressions of the world//
that appear beyond my/
body’s reach.
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Born, he stood up. He wore nothing as often as possible
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181086
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Here I am in the city where we walked side by side, you had driven a great distance and lost your way somewhere where exits left the highway from both directions and unpredictably.
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That night he dreamed about a duel with toothbrushes....
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181033
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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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Mounds of earth and grassless ground
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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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181031
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the future wrapped up in a dream
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181088
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dicks, skulls and upside down crosses
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1810147
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where is the magic at?
the spit
the dirt
or the words?
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1810148
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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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1810115
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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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He asked me to bury him in Vegas.
Instead, I had him cremated in Trenton.
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We lived on the edge of a tiny Iowa town, and picked corn fields were steps away.
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