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I thought about how chocolate or an hour massage, can almost trump sex. Then, I bought a chocolate bar and ate it all, without consulting the serving size. It was dark chocolate, 82%, worth it in the short term--- mmmm.
I thought about getting stoned.
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161974
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published in The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review.
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161963
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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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161965
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The robot may be grabbing onto something so big I'm mistaking it for the countryside, or the sunset. I could just be one cog in an infinite chain of leg-attachment, stretching from the cosmos to the sub-atomic.
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161992
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Dear Jackknife Ponderosa, I'm stupid. Let's move on. Let's move past the part where I complain, where I struggle with circumstance, where I display my petty arms, and shoot holes in the air. …
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1619129
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I had a crappy room on the fourth floor of a crappy hotel.
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16191817
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Johan was telling stories about the occupation. The Germans were stupid, he said.
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1618148
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And she's dying like someone who's tried living and failed.
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16182210
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Let’s play a game. I’m thinking of a word.
Do we have to?
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1618163
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He doesn’t intend to lie after this. For now, he just wants to take in the sea and the quiet.
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161830
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He did it in front of the waiter and everything.
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161896
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Some nights you really feel it.
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1618119
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Neglected long enough, uncalled for/
by the shrinking language of the day,//
my words abandon me.
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16181211
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Bag worms hang in their cloudy white hammocks. This is the month of webs when long-bodied yellow and black spiders sign their autographs.
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161875
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I am standing in the kitchen, kneading dough, because this is one way to say sorry. This is way to say, things will be different now, look.
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161800
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Solomon just makes people leak. Literally.
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161875
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The man and the lady loved to laugh. She would tuck her hair back and lay her head on his stomach after dinner while watching old scary movies on Thursday nights. She would listen to his stomach digest the food and laugh then, he would laugh and…
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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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1618116
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One must not confuse the meaning / of life with the joy of living
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161752
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Almost to the elevation of regret.
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161774
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A cow wanders onto a roof and falls through the skylight. It's a calamity, but such an innocent mistake. Mightn't you amble onto a rooftop once upon a full winter snow in Vermont?Another cow climbs a gravel mound in…
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His mouth went dry, but he managed to say, coolly, “Just how would you like me to do that, Sandra?”
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161721
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She saw no sense in waiting. Waiting was a weakness.
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1617112
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Although radiation and chemo rendered him a wraith...
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161774
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My mother's afraid the dog will drown. It's raining and our street is flooding and the dog is standing on top of his doghouse. My mother is pregnant. I can stand beneath her stomach and not even see her face. I watch her from the kitchen window. She's shoeless. She holds…
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My wife is making lunch. I suggest leftover pizza. We are going over to the neighbor’s house for pizza tonight, my wife says. I tell her that’s okay. I like pizza.
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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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161600
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We've got our gang colors on because we're out for retribution. T.S. Eliot made an appearance at a writer's conference on De-Privileging the Dead White Male last night, and the head of a low-residency poetry program tossed hot green tea on him.
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