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It was just lying there by the side of the road next to a mailbox, pockets turned out, weeds kinda rolled flat around it. I counted three nickels, a dime, and a cigar butt too. I could sure use the change for gum, but I didn't want to get near it. It looked dead,…
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Kai,
Oh the mathematics of solitude. I wish your father there. I read your wanting subtracted between the lines. He is almost gone. Hallucinates, not awake even though eyes are open. Yesterday he saw the baby brother you never met. I light four ultramarine…
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180542
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So begins your new career in the car service business. In some ways you enjoy it, too. Sitting alone in the cab each day, totally your own boss; you get a surge of excitement inside thinking about the money you'll make in a way that requires so little work. Clearing two…
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180584
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Her purse still hangs on the knob by the door, and seeing it is all that keeps Josh from freaking out because he knows she can’t go too far or too long without her purse.
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180432
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A woman walked in from the kitchen. She sat next to him as he poured what was left in the whiskey bottle into each glass. “They could’ve given us more time to make a payment,” he said.
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180440
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Children, afraid of dogs cried. There was uproar of melee. Children strained at their leashes to get away.
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18041312
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screw everything, youth is plinko
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180432
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Chills begin on my hand where his cool lips meet my skin and ripple through me. I try to focus on the road and cock my eyebrow. “Not bad for a 15-year-old.”
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18041710
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The list of things to live for/
shortens with age. The list of regrets/
lengthens.
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18042011
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The stunned son knelt to understand then fell, his heart shredded by the hollow point.
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18041210
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Another siege/
with kamikaze fervor.
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1804119
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Neglected long enough, uncalled for/
by the shrinking language of the day,//
my words abandon me.
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18041310
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Fortunately, when the bird hits the sliding glass doors in our den, I know what to do.
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180422
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She thought of an animal checking a scent before mating, and imagined that he said to himself, “All I need is for this woman to be hitting on me.”
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180443
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Somewhere in her the name triggers/
a grainy chain of Cheech & Chong
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180410
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A powerful song is often a result of imaginative storytelling through a unique “voice” and pitch-perfect musicality.
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180497
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Rory and Betty Sloan entered the first of 40 rooms in the new Motel 6 to place Holy Bibles in 40 night tables.
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1804116
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'love is when the body goes away.'
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18041410
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When we take Vengeance,/
shave and shower him,/
deodorize and scent him,/
clothe him in a starched shirt
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180400
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All I know about the futureis that every one alwaysgets to exactly where they are.
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180342
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The heat was different in the 90's Car rides played all the right tunes, and early, Saturday mornings echoed explosions of excitement, and neighborly visits Apartments; one beige body; filled our LA slum, street Sprinklers colored the hot…
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180331
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The fabric on the waiting room chairs is stained and matted, but has been cleaned over and over.
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180374
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...something in her raw vulnerability and daring beauty drove these men wild...
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1803188
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I told him he was just paying for his sins. He gave me a look. "Why me?" he asked.
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180373
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Her skirt is so short, said the teenage girls to each other. I was 7 years old. I said: she looks like a slut. They laughed; I blushed. Later, the slut smiled at me. I tried to find the teenage girls but they were gone. I wanted to say: it's actually a pair of…
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180397
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God's real name is Frank, and he stops by all the time. He tries to dump that cheap Xmas candy on us.
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180300
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‘They will follow, but we have to go now’
‘Wait , I can see something familiar...’
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Most everything is white because white means clean and hospitals are supposed to be clean. They wouldn’t let me leave.
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180353
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They try to incorporate a little of Ravel around their edges, the ones where their molecules bump off into other parallel realities, into other non-localities, into other potentials. She isn't buying it. She's tuned in. And she can tell.
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180363
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During the day we search for truffles. I have a pig named Henry. He is a big help. He wanders the forest sniffing for truffles like a parable of porcine inquisitiveness. He knows what he is doing. He is not just a pig. Nor ordinary pig. He is a French pig
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