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Cellulite is legal to have, either way.
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A little contempuous aside by the critical theorist guy, Frederick Jameson-- that it was logically absurd to call anything that human beings do, produce or effect “unnatural,”-- has brought forth the following. We are…
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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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this reaching, this striving to love like it's there becoming something we need.
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That morning, four children appeared in front of the train, which was ready to depart
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Assimilated wheat germ
integrated ant worm
the capital of brazil.
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Jasmine invited herself over and plopped herself on my futon. "Let's fuck," she said, bluntly. "I want to."
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“Ol’ Betty has a nice set of headlights,” he says with a wink as he springs out of the recliner.
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Dark hung over the night like an occupation force. Across the street a Cuban diner fought it off with green and yellow neon lights, Latin rhythm beating through the air.
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He thought the scarab was bad luck. I knew too little about omens to argue.
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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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The bar sounds grew (as bar sounds will) until everything rushed together -- clinking glass, tinkling ice, laughter and zippers going down then up.
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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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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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A son packs his bag - bottled water, extra masks, and jerky. Mom paces behind him. “Don't go.”
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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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Their nouns are few and stark./
Ours are numerous and dappled/
or subtly shaded and shadowed/
by circumstance and possibility.
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Our mothers died in childbirth. Taken in by the village, our new mothers taught us to wave at the river boats, to sell our trinkets to tourists. They offered us coins of a foreign currency and little pathetic smiles. By nightfall, our fingers bled. Then came…
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I had a dream. "And it was a long dream, as dreams go. . ."
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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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Born, he stood up. He wore nothing as often as possible
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When Mavis is satisfied that her new man and I have met her criteria, and at long last she goes, no one will stand between me and the relentless boredom of my own company.
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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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He asked me to bury him in Vegas.
Instead, I had him cremated in Trenton.
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When she told me to write itI did; I scratched out what I wanted to sayin quick print letters. Not all of it.I could never get it all out in an hour but thegeneral idea was definitely there. We had to finish it in the rain becausewe couldn't light the…
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