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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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174054
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[marbles] [blither-blather] [blarg]
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174077
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She caretakes, he takes care
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174084
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"This tastes like goat cheese," I said.
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Scribble something basic with traces of spectacular,pen every pint of pain spilled during the massacrewhittle the convoluted down to the vernacularboiled the whole story, now you got everybody crackin' upnow step back from the business like, “man, that's wack as…
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The guy stretches out his arm as he rounds up the herd of ducks that only want to bob. He pulls down his sleeve over a heart tattoo, faded from being seen so many times. It’s a skinny sort of heart tattoo, an askew heart from where I stand, an arrow fro
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173975
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they got some heat here in the West
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1739103
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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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173921
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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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173985
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They are plastering on lipstick in pay-to-enter toilets
around the corner from the mosques, where old men
sit on back streets selling toilet seats, spices by the
shovel, flashlights, and Audrey Hepburn t-shirts
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I almost forgot. Her nipples taste like that syrup from a can of peaches. The kind you aren’t supposed to eat if you are 18 or older. The kind that adds baggage to the hips and I’m certainly not about to take out an insurance policy on my ass.
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Get something cheap and light at Target. Trash hell out of it. Encourage baby to urp up in it.
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173910
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you and i exist
outside of the chaos and noise
entwined in eternal embrace
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You know what parents have to do to get an Xbox? They don't just stand in line and someone hands them an Xbox, OK? That's sacrifice. They have to sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice. I mean, I chase alpacas a mile every night in subfreezing conditions,
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173821
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We got Bob Dylan on the wall
wriggling from the lack of music
and light among the spheres
A great doubt has been raised
and can be seen from far, far away
for they are even afraid now in heaven
that things can’t be going right
and to
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He called me one Friday when I was a kid and told me he wanted to go trout fishing. He had dreamt that I was a worm or a fly -- he couldn't remember which -- but he was sure I would bring good luck to the stream. The next morning, before grandma awoke, I
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Oh, gracious mercy, oh...
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Four nights out of sevenI will lay with youFour nights out of sevenIt's the best I can do In the day, we will bake our breadAt night, ha, we will break our bed!Four nights out of seven, I will be with you
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Would a chickenshit leave her like I did yesterday?
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173820
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I am a shadow. Cooler than liquid. I don't need a container to take shape.
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173711
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You know moments like these. You know how your mother ruins them.
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1737119
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Be careful when you choose your muse,
for she may be a siren.
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173766
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This is not her death. This is absent-minded omniscience. This is impossible. And then again, the inside-out, implosion. And the hall was clogged with bodies; none of them hers, but who could be sure?
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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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Where I work people use words like leverage. They do not appear to denote anything.
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“Tell me again,” you whisper softly, “about the songbird.”
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173632
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A married woman requests a butterfly tattoo that won't please her husband from an old tattoo artist.
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I think for a second that I should have called my husband out to witness this thing, but I am instantly made aware of why I have not.
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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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