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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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172842
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A father's soft neglect has repercussions.
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172832
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and i'm almost out of cigarettes,
and fireworks and sorority girls
scream
from down the street.
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172700
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Being awake for the sunrise, that is the good planfor writing poemsand listening to enginesbirdsand bus stop silence.Now, I'm going to smokeout back on my roof porchfrom this atticapartmentin this desert land of big-titted blondesand listen to stadium fansrage…
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17272011
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The stunned son knelt to understand then fell, his heart shredded by the hollow point.
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172772
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The ice in my drink provides ample cooling. The brew strength of my tea is just such that it combines in a pleasing fashion with the melting ice. My mind is clear and my belly absent hunger. I am completely sated from any physical desire at this very mome
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172700
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Astrid hadn't always hated him.
They met at the Beta house in the fall of his junior year. Typical Friday night. Stoned, drinking beer. He and Red Chapman sitting in their room playing guitars. The girls in their blues jeans. The guys from the house hi
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172700
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I am gonna pound you face through that plate glass protective door until everyone who needs help can get in without your judgy face looking at them.
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172721
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Julie and I had been dating for almost a year when she slipped her vagina under my door on her way to work.
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172774
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You're on the Ferris wheel, and the wind is blowing just a little bit, and the sky is invisible behind a wash of white clouds, and your little yellow box tips when you look down, down to the fairway swinging. In the boxes below grandmothers are shrieking …
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172622
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John was sitting at his computer one night after work, when he read an article linked to him by a friend.
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172640
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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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1726126
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All creatures know death at their very core, a tacit default--
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172632
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I've heard of sucessful marriages where there's very little sex.
My heart aches for that kind of love.
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172611
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The pear is a bruise. Feels like desperation in the light, it looks soft and blue. She wants to touch it and doesn’t want to. How the blood gathers under the blue and the body grows tender. Swells. Slowly.
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1726129
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now the days are empty
and time has lost its head
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172631
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My small kitchen has barely enough room to turn around in, yet I had the feeling I was being watched. When I experience it again, just seconds later, I realize it was eyes watching, actual eyes, not a camera or machine.
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172663
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Bootsy awoke with a hangover that only brain surgery could cure, a hangover that caused a seam to open in the known universe, leaving Bootsy on one side while all other matter sped away, away.
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172642
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Renee said, "I have actually slept with a number of Captains of Industry and would rate them, overall, deficient in skills."
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172574
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1725103
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When she was nineteen, she began to brew a baby in her belly. She named it, and sang to it, and organized the leftover hand-me-downs that hadn't been worn ragged through by the first seven sets of recipients.
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172511
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The White House released only a short-form pedigree certificate, which “breeders” claim bears signs of alteration. “The ‘K’ in the middle of ‘AKC’ is longer than the other letters, like an El Greco on an acid trip.”
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172511
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Normally I would have never drank such a wine, but it was late on a Friday evening and the bottle was on the house...
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1725167
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The sun is going to slice your goddamn face open.
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172564
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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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172500
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You can’t start living in The Netherlands just like that; you need to be registered first. Once an official has confirmed you’re the person you claim to be, you can start in a job. Once an employer has confirmed you’re employed, you can apply for yo
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172552
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Elvis awoke in a cold, dank sweat, hungover from bourbon and bad dreams.
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172584
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"This tastes like goat cheese," I said.
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