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The snake-like veins began to pulsate angrily, and viciously about his body. Quickly he rose up about the girl. His heart was now pounding rapidly against his chest. Outstretched, were his wings, the width of the balcony, white and decrepit and old, yet s
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I imagined the sun to be the moon and discovered it was not on a road trip in California where I noticed the sun on one side and the moon on the other.
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The first engine arrived and a fireman heavy with gear stumbled from the side railing.
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Such behavior will result in no disciplinary action only: 1) if all blinds are drawn; 2) all doors are locked; and 3) loud groaning is masked by appropriate use of the volume control on the classroom’s closed-circuit TV set.
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Another Saturday in April. Another set of scars.
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I kept a journal
for so many years
I've forgotten
everything I wrote.
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this reaching, this striving to love like it's there becoming something we need.
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What about the goons? Those criminals thwarted and left for dead in every action movie for the past thirty years. I'm sure at least a dozen survived the slaughters. I'm sure at least one or two came out if it reformed. This one who quit working for Columbian drug smugglers…
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God forbid you should break one of the camps precious “rules,” which were more or less like the Ten F'ing Commandments around there.
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Having read the poetry of Dennison
I hereby give up writing.
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Someone will labor to keep it alive/
although the body will want but/
to return to random particles
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It takes twelve years for the hot water to run out and your skin has not even begun to prune.
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She doesn’t answer. Ten minutes slide by unmolested in the anesthesia of cheap wine and resignation, the bouncers blurring and unblurring, the room dimming, quieting, the kaleidoscope of sundown giving way to the gentle sadness of candlelight.
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She called it phantom energy. She said it was costing us money every month. A few cents here and there, sure, but it all added up.
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Bare feet on hardwood floor
Twists into circles
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"Jesus was a zombie?" I ask, shocked.
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At any moment, she'll come outside to pick up the day’s newspaper. He can see it resting beneath the blooming crape myrtle, its plastic wrapper glistening with dew.
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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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fat furry marmots who play hide and seek
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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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They had been wintering on the Cape under gunmetal skies...
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Dad must have walked around with me 20 times, the store closed around us and finally he said I could have one. They were all in different poses and sizes, with black spots. Except one. One had silver spots.
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Particles flung by the sun
pierce us through, undetected
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Behind the plastic kitchen, where the special children sometimes sit, a large boy in tight dungarees had grabbed Stephanie's hair in one fist.
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Wafting wisps of fondness twinkling
in time with fairy lights pointing out lawns in cities
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We are prisoners of anticipation.
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the array of regularly spaced wavering human forms floating upright seems to extend endlessly in all directions.
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