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The whole thing is broken. It's like an egg. I'm not saying this to get you to say something else in the sunny opposite direction of the tattooed scar upon my painted backyard scene. I don't really care. It's only on me. Not on you. I'm glad as…
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“It’s a sad thing,” I said, “when a man has to suffer just for getting a little on the side.”
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Toxins make a body happy/
as if acceleration toward//
an end of consciousness/
is its own reward.
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When the medicine started to interrupt her sleep, she made elaborate breakfasts – sweet potato pancakes, crepes with homemade cream cheese filling, omelets with spinach and brie, hand-rolled croissants stuffed with bittersweet chocolate. It was in those e
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"This tastes like goat cheese," I said.
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Somebody needs to call Frank. The pediatrician who fixes cars on the side.
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He is leaning back against a pillar watching the dancing; a spectator to joy – both planned and spontaneous – that’s unfolding in bodies fourteen and fifteen years old in front of him.
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two roses her eyes
aqua-blue
no, blue-green
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Philosophy: a muscular exercise of throat, jaw, tongue, and brain.
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She grinned when he steadied himself against the sofa. “Boy, I know you.”
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This is how we catch up. I write something down, and you read me quietly. In a year's time you will remind me, though I would have forgotten. I check to see if maybe you have put up a new song, every once in a while, but you don't sing as well as you used to.What has…
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Aquél que no ve brillar una escalera de Luz surgiendo de la piel de la tormenta, es que se esconde de miedo al pensarse inpermeable a su belleza...Mas luego lavará su rostro reflejandose en los charcos...o hará siembra de sus pasos al caminar por la hierba.De negro se viste…
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“You done done sumpin’,” the old man guessed, “Sumpin’ bad...”
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"leaves &damage, &shifts of shape"
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for he shall inherit your dream.
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Although radiation and chemo rendered him a wraith...
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It started (or maybe ended) with the boot flying off the balcony and bouncing in the dead grass in front of our building.
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There is just something about a thin, white cotton v-neck t-shirt, he thought, as he ran his hand over bleary eyes and dehydrated lips. He wanted her, as always. But he needed just a little more rest. She pulled her hair back into a ponytail. It…
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The man had decided that this was going to be his last day. He’d find out one final thing and he’d be done. He had spent the last few years of his life unwinding things that had been wound and untying knots that had been tied.
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You were like a delicate lace
that barely mentions the wrist.
But you were also at your best
with strings attached.
Let me say this. If innocence
is supposed to be so overwhelming
as to do nothing on purpose,
not carried away by sensatio
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122511
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I have hired a relationship consultant. He helps me through conversations with my wife.
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A short triangular plastic shovels into the/White plastic container filled with topaz crystal-like/Salt granulars. Scratchy sandy sounds echo.
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She’s not coming today. She didn’t come yesterday either.
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122596
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Everyone loves a story of love
unrequited.
But what about the stories
of the unrequited lovee?
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It’s always fun and easy/
to punish the poor
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I am in the hallway, but I don’t sense it. That is to say: I don’t feel my body. I am like a phantom, a limbless entity floating, flailing.
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Now it was black line, wall, turn, and black line.
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It’s been stored away in the cedar chest since my mother put it there in the early 60’s, well, 1962 to be exact. She was a careful woman, but over these many years the bow has flattened, and the wind-up parts have corroded some from non-use. Oh, the
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She says he is not a real person. He says he doesn't understand. And that she should be with the dudes who want to be her boyfriend.
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