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This is the parallel room I keep my heart in. Got a solo fireplace. I don't want to invite anything else into the story. It doesn't matter if no one knocks on the door ever again. I'm too shy to hope for much more than a couple of Interesting shadows…
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No one writes epics anymore. Why? Perhaps it's because we no longer share mythologies. Once there was a shepherd, and now there is a Google bus loaded with pricks. Yes, you say, but they are good at math. Each and every one of them. And this is true. I envy them…
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Now, at last, she finds what she's been searching for. Worms. Like bitty pale larva, like half-moons of air trapped under fingernails. She thinks she sees one twitch; she blinks more furiously and hates herself for it.
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I paused in case she said more. Then, “He’s very faint but he wants to talk.”
She leaned forward, chin almost resting on the grey-haired woman in front of her. “Tell him to shout.”
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1795129
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I had a crappy room on the fourth floor of a crappy hotel.
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1794185
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The day you came home, after three extended tours in Afghanistan, I wanted to welcome you at the bus station, but I was afraid you'd attach yourself to me again.
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We’re on our way out, my brother and me, to the graveyard.
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17941413
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Hunters took 925 bears in the 2020 season in Vermont
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They come to mind/
like ice flowers/
on the small panes
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1794127
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as i sink down into the
shadows crawling like a worm
past cold bricks
centuries old in my blood
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179400
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Well, it was on a Monday and you know how bad Mondays are to begin with. I had been up real late the night before playin’ poker and drinkin’. I was thinking that after a couple of hours the hangover would wear off and I’d be okay, but instead I s
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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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179400
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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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She caretakes, he takes care
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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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179300
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There is a feeling in my hands,
fingers,
a restive, potential energy,
drawing inward, reaching
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Karen likes to make a big deal about life experience. Specifically how much more she has than me. What that actually means, she's never made clear. The definition changes and mutates as the years go by, always in her…
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He said stuff like
‘Crikey that's a knife',” she said, “it was bad, really
really bad.”
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Weddings, engagements etc.
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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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We can apprehend beauty only/
by framing it with the photographic/
paper’s edge or the novel’s margins/
and bookends.
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179300
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Would a chickenshit leave her like I did yesterday?
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“Me try anything,” he says, then laughs a little. “You’re fucked.”
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the doomed, but splendid,
first year GT40.
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Phil doesn’t know anything. He thinks his truck is possessed by his dead mother.
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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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Creamcheese straightened out that spectacular yellow dress, tucking a fully exposed nipple back in under the material. She pulled down the hem of the dress, then strolled right into the Savoy like a wooden duck being pulled on a string, and headed straigh
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