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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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Moon Boy sits atop the hill's crest and watches Moon Girl.
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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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The signal sets the faint young boys into motion
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Cellulite is legal to have, either way.
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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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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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The javelin was cancelled after the unfortunate incident with Mrs Parker last year, but no one could have predicted this year’s sack race tragedy.
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"Being honest with me," said her teacher, "will hopefully allow you to be honest with yourself--writing is about being honest, and articulating that honesty."
It sounded like a riddle, and her teacher looked at her with the sanctimony of a wizard.
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He thought the scarab was bad luck. I knew too little about omens to argue.
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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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“Ol’ Betty has a nice set of headlights,” he says with a wink as he springs out of the recliner.
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Danica stared at her hand as she felt he warmth of the wind. She remembered Alysia saying that she felt the wind through the heat.
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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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To hear my name, called out across the Roman stones on a bridge in Regensburg through the languid March drizzle,
was to breathe again as my head burst through the water.
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my God, I have no time, no time
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The cabin has windows all around, like ribbon tying a birthday present.
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That morning, four children appeared in front of the train, which was ready to depart
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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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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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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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