1749 4 6
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Two cars smashed together, the sky started to look like a foot infected with gout...
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174996
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I have always admired flat-chested women.
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174965
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There’s a hole in my sock, just large enough that my big toe keeps slipping out.
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174942
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There were three other guys on the bus. The landlord (or buslord) let us use the kitchen and bathroom in the house he shared with his wife. I rode into San José City College with the other guys, who were also taking classes there. I remember frigid autum
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174910
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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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17491811
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It could be fun,/
with the guns, explosives, Molotov/
Cocktails and all,
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174971
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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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174900
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Walking home, carrying his guitar case, Jed felt the sums of his life adding up to dangerously high numbers, the deadly inertia of vaguely comfortable apathy swallowing his time. His moment would soon be fading. Because, like many young men before him, Jed…
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17491414
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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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174954
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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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174963
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My fingers are shining
in the underwater afterlife of memory
searching for the nipple-sized mollusks
searching for the solid nature of things
left over from having lived a life
at all
That new rain smell, specifically
I remember that,
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174852
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We lay in what we have made, minute fleshy bullets in the target we have made.
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174811
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...the loving and very painful hurt of our daily sustenance
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1748169
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If love could only by heat be bound
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174811
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Only ever been twelve men on the moon. And one cheese.
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174800
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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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174897
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They rise up, a sullen, sorrowful/
army of reproach, staring,//
stone-faced but eyed with fire.
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174820
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Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
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17481213
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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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1747179
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watch/
the second hand sweep
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1747136
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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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174752
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But I still don't have my underwear in the right place.
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17471513
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San Bruno avenue, six shops in eight blocks. Those Vietnamese ladies thrive on the pedicure trade.
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174743
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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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174753
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My sweet baby angel has baby hair Baby angel has a golden cross lit looking at the crystal pig and kind mare The drowning unicorn comes from the waves in fits. My sweet baby angel has baby talkBaby angel has a diamond shape scarburied heart shaped…
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1747115
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when thoughts of you
waffle in through memories scent
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174720
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As it turns out, hypertravel is surprisingly slimming.
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1747105
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As a boy I fished under the Tappan Zee bridge which spans the Hudson River above New York City.
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174710
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You're stupid drunk. And not feeling so good. You know you should stop doing this. But what else is there to do, especially since your brother went in? And now Roberto's gone to pick up his lady and left you alone, empty. Couldn't even drive you home. You don't…
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174685
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I'll never be a Republican Megadonor or a Doomed Aviatrix. But I'm okay with that.
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