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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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1856139
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Like many little towns, ours has an archive. It is a catalog of everything that happens.
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18561310
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I bought some charlatan art / and hung it on the wall
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18561715
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I loved to visit my grandparents when I was a kid.
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185511
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“I scheduled some time today to talk to you about something…something important. Since you’re going on with your life, leaving everything you’ve known so far, you’re going to need some information about sex.”
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185543
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Born, he stood up. He wore nothing as often as possible
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185512
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[DO NOT READ BETWEEN THIS LINE ... CITIZEN!]
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1855114
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Mounds of earth and grassless ground
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18551914
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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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185562
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"What is a vageena?" I wanted to know.
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185520
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The cabin has windows all around, like ribbon tying a birthday present.
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185555
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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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185554
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185433
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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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185432
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Matthias Fenstermacher loved onions, but hated slicing them, and so he labored to produce a tearless variety. His first attempt was indeed tearless--instead of weeping, the slicer was overcome by fits of uncontrollable giggles. The potential hazard was
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185452
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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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185433
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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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1854157
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It is a sunny day in the autumn of the patriarch.
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18541310
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I see my siblings once a year when we all show up, as if required by law, to eat Thanksgiving dinner. It is apparent with every bite how much they hate each other.
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185421
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I can still feel the texture of those humid Delta mornings, hear the rhythm of the voices of black children echoing down the halls. I still remember the sense of purpose that I had each day, knowing that this, here, mattered: a child’s education, their
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185343
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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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185332
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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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185322
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Hi, I'm Harmony Korine. I esteem douchebags.
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185366
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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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185311
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There was an ownership about the makeshift carnival. There was a therapy there.
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185331
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the future wrapped up in a dream
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185363
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You took up residence on the dark side of things, a bolthole in a wind-flayed right angle of a tower block where pigeons and suicides tumbled blackly on the air currents. You set about drifting off from who you were on a tide of cheap whisky and bad poetry, graduating…
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185333
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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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185320
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You were at a saloon on Water Street. Witnesses say. You were taken out of the place and put on a sloop against your will. Witnesses don’t say.
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