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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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The drip of rank meat, his muzzle, his back-barbed tongue: red.
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Poets are more like Jesus,/
suffering the cross
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Nothing about it//
is attractive- its color, it’s design,/
it’s market value. I leave it be and watch
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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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If there is an airport, it is one of dreams. If there is a dream, it is one of shadows. If there are shadows, there is not much more but the thoughts of a short man meeting a short woman on a runway of forbidden desires, in a foreign city belonging to n
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Their nouns are few and stark./
Ours are numerous and dappled/
or subtly shaded and shadowed/
by circumstance and possibility.
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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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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. All was confusion in the Lubrecht house. Baby Lubrecht had discovered that his favorite blankey, thought by him to have been lost, was in fact being used by his older sister, Lilly Lubrecht.…
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the/ orange/ tastes/ welcome
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Assimilated wheat germ
integrated ant worm
the capital of brazil.
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We stopped at the Western Summit of the Mohawk Trail. Below Richland lay in the valley. I could see all the way to New York State and well into Vermont. From memory, I picked out the Hoosac River running south under the railroad
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Three months had passed since the grease fire melted Jasmine's face.I sat beside her on the hospital bed and held her clamy hand as she trembled. "No more stir-fry," I joked. The doctor and nurse faked a chuckle. Jasmine might have, but the bandages muffled…
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I am tired of playing the old game: Saying something old in a new way. So let me do the opposite:
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Pauleen tries to split open her legs because she doesn’t understand how to love someone without them.
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They knew every word.
They knew EVERY word!
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The bird studies me, we lock stares, with no care for who blinks first, birds don’t do macho stand-off.
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“What is the sickness that you have?” Colin behind the glass wondered.
“Too much world,” said Anise Fish.
“We have that in common.”
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the future wrapped up in a dream
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The cabin has windows all around, like ribbon tying a birthday present.
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If you want job security on this planet, you'd better study art.
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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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The man and the whore lay in bed together. It was a cold night and they were warmed by the heat beneath the…
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It’s beautiful to look at and to hold/
though true musicians would be appalled/
by the black plastic
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He thought the scarab was bad luck. I knew too little about omens to argue.
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That put a real crimp in our already crimped sex life. Actually I didn’t mind as much as Allison minded. It made her real grumpy when she didn’t get laid. I could never understand how she could bear so much pain, because she was so small that it was l
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Freshly fucked,
Shirley exhaled enjoying the lingering sensations. She always felt lighter after a good orgasm, and this had been one for the record books.
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He begins talking about string theory. He reels me back in, from the dinosaurs to the infinite, human evolution and alternate dimensions, until it makes so little sense that everything makes sense.
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"What is a vageena?" I wanted to know.
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