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The signal sets the faint young boys into motion
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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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We want our lives even-cut, …
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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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I stand at the edge of the water naked as a newborn. Tiny ripples lick my toes.
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1823157
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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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You anchor the real
You make love to the true
I am bound to you in consecration
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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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182222
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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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said you loved me
told some jokes
aren’t you dying?
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Moon Boy sits atop the hill's crest and watches Moon Girl.
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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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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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Also in development,/
the anatomically perfect robot/
pool boy and naughty maid,
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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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Some books are like old friends and when you read them, you no longer feel alone.
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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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Having sex with her there made me feel like a child molester, I said. She said it made her excited.
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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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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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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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A son packs his bag - bottled water, extra masks, and jerky. Mom paces behind him. “Don't go.”
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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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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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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 is drilling the door of a safe to access the keys he locked inside.
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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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