1695 5 5
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What does she have / that I don’t have / that I can’t buy / for myself?
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169574
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You're a good dog, she whispered to him, a good brave dog. Her face was tight with soap.
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16951212
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Your mother is a great and dying bird. Once, she tended her grand feathered nest. Once, she preened.
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1695136
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I travel over your body with small feet,
reach your heart.
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169533
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169565
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169576
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Uh oh, the dry cleaning ticket
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1695102
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I won’t be eating much anyway if someone doesn’t start reading me. I’ve got to get a hook so people will be drawn to my work. I’ve got a few concepts I’d like to share with you. See what you think.
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16941311
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It’s been a series of bad clams
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169464
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...the knives she laid out on the porch before her husband left her, washed and dried, set neatly by copper pennies.
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16941415
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The place is buzzing with little women, all clad in black smocks.
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169432
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All I wanted was to love her.
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169462
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This wasn't going to be about her anymore.She tied her strong purple balloon to the neck of the wounded horse. Her skirt and her top felt like armor's breath. The tingle across her scalp felt warm. Small rug scrapes that made her think of her last dog, before she died.This…
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169493
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During what's called "Children's time," one day at church Sarah slides her left foot halfway out of her tiny ballet slipper to show Davie her toenails are painted the same soft pink as the inside of her shoe. "Look," she says. "My…
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1694117
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On his knees
he divinates diverging lines
with belly laughs he levitates
the rebel spheres into geodes .
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169467
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Just take the mountain curves
as tightly to the inside and
as fast as surface conditions permit
and the road’s edge
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BABY MOUSE She and the baby squeeze into the neon blue star-studded rocket ship in front of K-Mart, a tight fit because the baby's still inside her and the ship is made for under ten year olds and the steering wheel dents her stomach and the baby backs up and…
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16942714
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At some point, my lottery number/
was in the mid 300s. I was safe/
for whatever reason. No need/
to burn my draft card.
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1694114
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My spooky cat got out again. Under the deck she ran. Out came the hose that chased her about. Fur spiked, tail pointing, yowling, she hissed at me, and back in the house she pranced. It's been two days now. She slithers out for food after…
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169410
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[CAUTION: TO PREVENT ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE COVER. NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE. REFER SERVICE TO QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL.]
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1694106
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Rarely is Quay Street so clean,
Monday in rain,
Neactain’s ticking over with
Slow jazz and crosswords,
Stout and steaming anoraks.
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169410
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Sophie hoped that Ryan would just stay in the bathroom and never come out. Her stomach turned just thinking about him, but wealthy nerds were easier to work than wealthy regular guys. No self-esteem, no experience with women…no problem.
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169333
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Her whole life was lived between high tide and low tide, moments of giggling grandeur and moments of sheer emptiness.
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1693168
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Her clothing style varies from grunge to glamor and . . . she always looks good.
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169330
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“Listen, Mother – you’re my ticket out of this burg and I’m not about to cash it in!”
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169300
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When you have lived with pain so long, you grow old and the old man inside of you takes over. That’s just the way it is.
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169341
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Each drip off the corrugated plastic sheeting made a tinny sound that he could hear from deep within the damp sleeping bag and layers of blankets where he was trying to sleep.
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16931810
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It’s Sunday- no need to shave-/
but shave, I do. A little act//
of discipline in the discipline/
of routine.
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169300
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oh, sure i’m still running around like a heads-up/off/prophet/profit/fit trying to cut off my very own de/(con)instruction and all other sordid a•void•able & available/a-Babel towers of post &toastmodern doom/daze
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They came early and parked up, under cover of the night and the giant oak. I only know this because people told me afterwards. Watching us, they were. It was six o'clock before they smashed their way in, scaring the three of us out of our wits. Baby Billy screamed the place…
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