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an ominous figure of fear and grace a ball moves back and forth
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180655
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His people eat soggy casseroles and smile with tight lips.
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180553
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Hunger only makes people hungry, but bad hair can ruin your whole day.
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180533
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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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"Did I have a choice? Could I just open my eyes, did I have to ‘see’ as he was telling me now I could? I decided to go for it. What did I have to lose? This was all a dream, too much driving to get here, too much reunion, too much food, too much beer. Or
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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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Hipster-neutral dressed simulacra-person offers a glance and a wave, sudden as a ping-pong serve, designed to crowd your space and "pal" you but I dodge it — I'm practiced at this.
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Emi however, took her sister’s arm and looked at the bandage. Her normal green eyes stared coldly at the wound made by one of the large centipedes. Mayumi realized there was some sense of emotion from Emi wanting to come out.
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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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I stand at the edge of the water naked as a newborn. Tiny ripples lick my toes.
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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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I bought some charlatan art / and hung it on the wall
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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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I flung the basketball at the hoop and Cooper shagged the ball. He was the luckiest bastard I knew. ...
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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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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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The latest teen abuse of an ordinary household item? Late-night “lint roller” parties at which boys and girls engage in heavy “feel-up” sessions that can lead to unwanted pregnancies, white slavery and in extreme cases, marriage.
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A jollier zombie you shall never find. You must trust me on this!
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Never touch David Letterman's neck!
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dicks, skulls and upside down crosses
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where is the magic at?
the spit
the dirt
or the words?
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We want our lives even-cut, …
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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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180455
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Alessandro was no ordinary demon (what demon is?), insofar as he had Constable Pulce's number. In demonly fashion he had Pulce's number in a way Pulce himself did not.
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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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Moon Boy sits atop the hill's crest and watches Moon Girl.
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"Jesus was a zombie?" I ask, shocked.
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