1804 2 0
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1804 15 3
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1803 2 0
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I was thinking everything was OK, until one day I woke up and realized that I was living on an entirely different planet, and you seemed like a complete stranger to me. I was feeling so ashamed of these feelings, that I couldn't even tell you about them. I couldn't…
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1803 8 8
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I scratch a red welt onto the inside of my white knee. The knee itches like crazy. Pain too, down to my bones. The Congo calls.
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1803 5 6
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in our teens as tough as the cold/we wore denim and flannel with our boots/kicking at whichever wind blew . . .
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1803 7 4
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I can take you away, away, away.
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1803 6 0
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Passing us in a delicate swirl of light perfume and healthy girl sweat, three bare midriff elfin, baby dykes with pencil thin eyebrows, and chic art hair cuts, swaggered in like cool young gunfighters straight off the cover of Bad Baby Butch Vogue
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1803 9 7
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1803 2 1
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I am far from home, wherever that is.
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1803 9 10
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She always wore a little smile. When she took off her robe, the class grew quiet.
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1803 7 7
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They stand together in the doorway looking at the crib.
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1803 6 5
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1802 8 7
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Co-workers have started calling him Jesus, Manson, Foghat, Doobie Brother, hippie, hipster, Grizzly Adams, Dude Lebowski... there’s really no end to it.
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1802 13 10
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Uncounted hens and piglets/
die at my demand. The killing floor//
runs red for me. I am/
monstrous to creatures small and great,
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1802 18 11
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hoping for a happy outcome/
like a kindly voice on the line
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1802 5 3
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Smoking is like hooking up with an ex-girlfriend: you know she's bad for you and that it won't work out, but it feels so familiar and comfortable and so easy to slide back into.
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1802 9 8
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1802 10 5
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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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1802 6 6
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At night, I wake up, and Daddy's in the bathroom with a hanger in his mouth....
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1802 1 0
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He lost his patience and began ranting and raving, angry that he had to come home every night and feel like he was being smothered by a pillow. “I can’t make it stop,” she said. “I can’t make myself stop feeling this way.”
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1801 3 0
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“He looks funny again,” the twins would say. “Cow looks funny, Mummy.”
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1801 0 0
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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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1801 5 6
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Just like D-Ray White’s tapping still bounces off the mountains if the right person is listening, Hasil’s hoots and howls are trapped in record wax like a blood-drunk mosquito in amber.
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1801 10 6
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strobe lights wash me up and down
and here is the hottest mad dancer of
the early morning black and loaded
rushed into a freeze frame
...Also link to the song "Nope"
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1801 6 6
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The real problem with being face blind isn't that you can't recognize faces. It's that people expect you to be able to.
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1801 8 5
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The strange bones of language
wander the room.
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1801 1 2
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From a window, the young Pole Krzysztof Penderecki saw resistance fighters hanged by Nazis...
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1801 6 6
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It was always your body that told so much --
lips working some secret out
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1801 0 0
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“I feel like my bones are melting.” Her arms are wrapped around her body tightly, like she’s trying to hold herself together. She’s shaking; I can hear it with every breath she takes.
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1801 6 5
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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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