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dicks, skulls and upside down crosses
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"What is a vageena?" I wanted to know.
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Sometimes he could feel so small he believed he could fit through the eye of a needle.
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We want our lives even-cut, …
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It is a sunny day in the autumn of the patriarch.
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When we were on the road coming back out to California, along the Lewis and Clark trail somewhere near Cardwell, Montana, I remember thinking life was like leaping through flames while reading poetry and drinking rotgut red wine. This was what life was, a
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I bought some charlatan art / and hung it on the wall
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I loved to visit my grandparents when I was a kid.
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"Merry Christmas, Willie."
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Born, he stood up. He wore nothing as often as possible
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That night he dreamed about a duel with toothbrushes....
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It was all I was convinced / in designing the encounter.
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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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I look for the boy we met inside the club, the one who claimed he loved playing with matches, setting fire to churches. I spot him smoking a cigarette, standing so cool against the side of the club, like he might be the nephew of some Viking guitarist hun
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His work was done. For sixty years, beginning soon after his seventeenth birthday, he had listened to the gods- good, bad, somewhere in between-
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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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186156
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In Your Absence the yard-cat, Flower, has started sleeping on top of the fridge
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I can confirm nothing/
but impressions of the world//
that appear beyond my/
body’s reach.
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The snake-like veins began to pulsate angrily, and viciously about his body. Quickly he rose up about the girl. His heart was now pounding rapidly against his chest. Outstretched, were his wings, the width of the balcony, white and decrepit and old, yet s
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So I’ll wait for her to clear all burden from her head and feel the ocean move us. Stand up, walk over to me and kiss me as we glided through open water.
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With such a world/
one must invent a heaven
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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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["This is not a snippet of text. This is only a test."]
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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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How her camisole strap falls, her bare shoulder, her tattooed arm like an old, Coney Island mural. That dream she had: I bought her a fake, diamond necklace in Manhattan. She wanted to kiss me in the alley but was afraid of the rats
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