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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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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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The money stank on the table. Money is dirty she said, one of the dirtiest things. So many people touch it. This pile of brine would not explain its reek, only demanded that we accepted its stench as requisite. It had to have been the cash that stank, prior to its arrival…
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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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Writing as a form of imaginative hatred
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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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174110
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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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I’m in high leather boots; I’m talking many dead cows here and I respect that
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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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174110
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My only celebrity anecdote involves seeing Barbara Bush in the back of the Presidential limo ...
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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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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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A wrinkled man lie atop an ivory-clad mattress, matched sheets covered his body, matched hair covered his head.
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They rise up, a sullen, sorrowful/
army of reproach, staring,//
stone-faced but eyed with fire.
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[marbles] [blither-blather] [blarg]
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The mulch vendor is a crook but we have no choice, not with the shortage of soil. Have to guard the stuff, put alarm wires around the garden, leave a friend in charge to spot the thieves if you go away overnight. If you…
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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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173911
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...the loving and very painful hurt of our daily sustenance
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173911
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Only ever been twelve men on the moon. And one cheese.
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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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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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When I first arrived/footling-breeched/you two were there/ahead of me.
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173932
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She looks exactly like my sister, though I do not have a sister.
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1739107
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I reached for that hair and the air zagged white...
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1739136
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The clacking ventilator reminds me of ice cubes rattling in your highball...
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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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This is a lady who never got a break.
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173810
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[He] practiced aromatherapy and licentiousness, in no particular order.
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