1741 20 11
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The box thuds at your feet: mug, plant, wedding photo, the 25-year pen.
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17411211
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Coward, cuckold, she taunts: So be it. He's not a young man anymore, nor as clever as he once was, or thought.
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1741128
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He said his wife levitated.
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174171
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I’m in high leather boots; I’m talking many dead cows here and I respect that
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174110
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My only celebrity anecdote involves seeing Barbara Bush in the back of the Presidential limo ...
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1740136
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Valentine Dayso excitingit means he really loves herwhat will he bringshe waitshe comes home with a hang dogexpression on his faceher valentine was leftat the gambling table
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17401513
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San Bruno avenue, six shops in eight blocks. Those Vietnamese ladies thrive on the pedicure trade.
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174010
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Leda looks back over her shoulder at us as the swan
grips her from behind while at the same time nipping at
the nape of her neck. She's a freckled child and
a little frightened. There's a dark smudge beneath her eye
where the shadow runs. The swan
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174062
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"What the fuck are you looking at, Carl?" She snaps, turning her head toward me as the truck edges off the road and into a field of tobacco, into those broad green leaves of ancient sacristy and modern ablution. This is not a blissful kind of field. It is not full…
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17401414
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A wrinkled man lie atop an ivory-clad mattress, matched sheets covered his body, matched hair covered his head.
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174054
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Quail looked up at her. Unsmiling, challenging.
Lemme just go wash my hands, he said.
She closed the door, bolted it. You won’t need your hands.
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174097
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They rise up, a sullen, sorrowful/
army of reproach, staring,//
stone-faced but eyed with fire.
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174096
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I cannot begin to list all the ways this conversation can go downhill from here, so I hang up the phone quietly.
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174054
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[marbles] [blither-blather] [blarg]
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173996
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A horizon shrinks a burden until it’s a seagull getting fat off vinegar fries. I’m in love with the way your mouth moves when you aren’t talking. When it fills with salt.
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173932
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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173911
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...the loving and very painful hurt of our daily sustenance
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173943
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He’d tossed and turned all night, pondering what to do, afraid she was living alone. He’d decided to email her two words: “Love you” and signed it “Scary Sal,” as she’d always seemed so afraid of him.
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173997
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When I first arrived/footling-breeched/you two were there/ahead of me.
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1739107
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I reached for that hair and the air zagged white...
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17391512
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I took Annie to the zoo, and the tigers got out. The little tigers, that is. Cubs. Two of them. The zoo employees scurried about, peeking into nooks and crannies.
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17384520
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This is a lady who never got a break.
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173822
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I remember thinking the seasons are arriving later every year,
as if the world has been slowed by the weight of graves.
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173852
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But I still don't have my underwear in the right place.
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173832
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Jesus was a cancer survivor and possibly a super nova.He ran with the Wolves of night time, with the women of the paleolithic era and hunted for meat when the blood didn't drip to their feet and create veritable red shoes like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.I am no longer in…
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173800
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Not long ago, Owen the Second showed her a skull. He kept it in a brown cardboard box in the top of the closet. "My first wife," he said, and sneered, his lip bunching up around a scar just under his nose.
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173832
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She looks exactly like my sister, though I do not have a sister.
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173800
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If you were the ozone,
I’d want to leave you gaping.
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1738136
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The clacking ventilator reminds me of ice cubes rattling in your highball...
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173865
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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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