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Tough boys with loose pants come out at this hour; their long chains swing from low pockets, their virile scent bites like steel in the cold night.
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Background
foreground
life in the middle
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Her whole life was lived between high tide and low tide, moments of giggling grandeur and moments of sheer emptiness.
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These days I wear a flag pin.
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awfully evil decisions upstairs in your head that could come back to haunt you in your later years;I'm here to report your zooming about hair isn't really one of them. You have found the infernal wheel works in all four directions at once. Good for you.…
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I knew a girl on Folly Island who took
showers in water so hot
her skin blushed pink rosettes.
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In his head he thinks oh whatever when I wake this time I shall have a very fine discussion with Someone special, oh but finding meaning in anything nowadays that's Just too much rich flattery, isn't it, filthy mirror? Inside His head's…
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A spark is a gouged word: stewed to annihilate, scrambled, botched in a pot to dry. Lead us to the quiver, let us tremble. Noon, we paw nails under rugs, run fingertips over books, rip cupboards from hinges and spiral open the machine, for the creature is near the roof or…
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It was the first time I had ever seen a possession.
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saw the world was a mess
I did nothing about it, poured myself some apple juice
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I married a penguin. Her waddle made for a scenic view.
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when the devil dies he divides enough evil for everybody
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“You have no idea what your lives will be like if you can get out of the ‘hood. You could be driving Volvos, eating Tuscan cuisine, getting MacArthur ‘genius’ grants!”
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When I no longer know you, what signal will you give to remind me that you and I once loved?
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Ancient erections loom aloft
ringed by decades
centuries for some
in gnarled scabs of pine.
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Blinking, Eleanor frowned at the words she’d uttered. They were absurd… foolish. Unequivocally unscientific, but beautiful nonetheless. The notion of the sunless hours embodied as a clumsy artist struck the student as interesting.
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Bitch My brother is the only person who dared to slaughter a bitch and its five puppies. It is sickening to write this story. Sickening to read it. This happened on Sunday night when the muezzin called for the prayer. The puppies were…
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“Americans like beer, right?” he asks. “It’s not acceptable for a woman to buy beer.” He proffers it in a brown paper bag.
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The days cut off by damp chill with every thought a different variety of protection.
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There was an empty box on his facebook page asking to be filled in with, “What’s on your mind?” He thought. "Hair?"
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The light against the nylon walls of the tent gets me feeling a little down. The air's wet inside, but it's warm. The whole world outside is creaking and chirping, everything that wakes up with the dawn's first tepid blue light does so and starts making n
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In a corner of a neighbor’s land too stony to till Cob makes a mystery.
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FOR SALE. One prom dress, never worn. Size 18.
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There will always be some
who misread the dance
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There was an ownership about the makeshift carnival. There was a therapy there.
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Satchmo sings a love song over the sound system. People read books, tap keyboards, drink coffee, eat cake. In Barnes & Noble—more a coffee shop these days than a bookstore—I am thinking about my dad and his stomach cancer.The terror he…
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The shark’s voice was dark, warm and scratchy, like dying embers.
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