1740 15 13
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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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174071
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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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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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174061
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In his mind, he could hear Eve’s voice, “We had some good times, didn’t we?”
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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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174010
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My only celebrity anecdote involves seeing Barbara Bush in the back of the Presidential limo ...
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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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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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173996
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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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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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1738136
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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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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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1738128
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He said his wife levitated.
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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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1738107
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I reached for that hair and the air zagged white...
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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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17381213
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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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17374520
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This is a lady who never got a break.
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173710
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[He] practiced aromatherapy and licentiousness, in no particular order.
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173700
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1737105
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Brazilian girls yammer
with their book bags
up against my leg.
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