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I thought, what are we talking about? Botox?
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my fingers vibrate magnetic/
a humming void/
where my brain was
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This is a lady who never got a break.
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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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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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I made myself tiny as I could, imagining I was Houdini shackled underwater, holding my nose and practicing my escape...
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I looked around in my pantry but there were no sentences I felt like cooking.
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52. they hate the word hate
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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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“Emerald Leaf Borers, Dutch Elm Disease and Gypsy Moths blow through here like the Plagues of Egypt,” said Rafe, sipping from his glass of Parallel 44 wine. “You'd think we'd get more than a few days of good weather for all the parasites we feed.” …
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"Sorry, I need to confirm the results." Sal turned to Paul. "Is it true that you got stood up?"
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163464
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And she warms her hands on fresh-cut gizzards, And he forgets the taste of honeyed peaches
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You are a space-walker and a time-traveler...
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163376
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Scavenge at that address only if you feel possessed of great courage, a profound faith in resurrection or reincarnation, or an impatient desire for a premature date with certain death.
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163365
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You may think you've tasted envy, but yours was just a sour sip of wine at a civilized wine-tasting. Mine is bottom-shelf, well-brand gin in a biker bar with miss-the-urinal piss stains on the floor.
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Brody was standing against the wall with one hand in his hip pocket, as if he was holding a gun. The motel was set in the undergrowth of several weedy small towns, but a flashing neon sign made it impossible to miss from the road. We used it as a safe hou
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Her clothing style varies from grunge to glamor and . . . she always looks good.
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so I tighten hands with my castaway and say/you failed to impress in your folded peacock dress
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She parks the car and trudges insidefor her daily visithoping that the new rouge hidesthe old tears.Five years now she has been comingto see himHe looks nothing like the pictures toanyone but her.They say she should go homeand rest, relaxShe doesn't know how…
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Falling Water almost fell./
12 million dollars later//
it will splay itself a little longer
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My banker said, "We've millions we can spare,
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I knew nothing about the letter at first. When I came in that morning and smiled and said good morning, it was a genuine smile and a heartfelt good morning. But the letter, which had arrived the previous afternoon, was already doing its corrosive work of
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woke up to the sound of a diesel
looked out the window to see i’m not home
outta bed to see if you had called
not a damn thing on my phone
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Oh, what jealousy does to us! What love does to the living!
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She used her right breast. Lifted it to her chin, aimed at the can, and shoved it down as hard as she could.
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I walked to work back then...
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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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the names / she carried (within)
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Weddings, engagements etc.
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