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My mother saw the Devil everywhere, even in my dance teacher, with his black leotards and chest hair like bean sprouts. "You're flamingos," he'd say in class when we balanced on one foot; when we lept into the air, "Now you're panthers!" I pictured him in a dark robe,…
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One night he woke up with Underdog laying next to him, breathing softly. He marveled at how fiction could make reality so much better.
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Dinner conversation reminds me of the chatter of birds. Happy talk. Nothing real.
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In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God. What on Earth does that mean? What the hell? Earth, hell, heaven, they were good concepts. He took a rib out of Adam and began to write with it.
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"Did I have a dream, or did the dream have me?" - Rush, "Nocturne"
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Flames dance behind glass
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You enter the lobby of the office building tentatively at first - you're a little nervous about this interview, after all - but you recall how spectacular and professional you dressed that morning. Plus you read through the company's LinkedIn profile at least five times…
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I started walking around the Jube like any other sheep, lemming, or penguin: passing plate glass windows, one after another.
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Linus had it right with the security blanket he held like a beloved pet swan. Geneva had it all wrong with a pastel-colored music box, painted with impressionist-styled daisies and tied up in gold-ribbed pink bow. But it had come from her grandmother. Her
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I crave the confines of the convent
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They were all sitting naked in a sauna and drinking Diet Coke, with droopy ball sacks and sweat rolling over massive man titties and paunches. Yahweh sat on an upper bench, wearing dark goggles to protect his eyes from the brightness of his own still radi
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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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Parsimony, Sage Advice, Alimony, and Time.
That would be one.
The Waste Land. The Hollow Men. The Red Wheelbarrow.
There are others,
But I have definite shoe anxiety dreams and can’t get over them.
Do not Go Gently Into That Good Night. Alone
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One by one our friends are kicking the bucket. Let's get together. It's now or never, we figure.
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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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There won't be dancing, anymore. That isn't true, that can't be true; but there is no floor to dance on, you know?
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We flew./
In my dreams, I can fly.
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At the third or fourth discotheque I drink so much I accidentally find myself happy.
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Afterward, at the motel, I asked her why she liked sex so much, and she said she liked the taste.
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He pours another shot and says: Then I buried it in the yard. The time capsule I mean. You have to plug it in to see. I wonder if they’ll know.
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Abominables do roam the earth; I know it.
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The water rolls gently this evening, barely touching my toes before retreating. The tide has been going out for over an hour and already there are several victims – crustaceans, spider crabs, minnows.
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Jesus came strolling
by in his sandally Jesus foot sandals.
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I have two of those hand exercisers jamming the
tray and keeping it locked in place
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I have committed to nothing. Therefore I have committed to something. The first sentence is now moot, and this story will eat itself.
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Biscuits and gravy. I'm off today, I'm lazy.
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The money stank on the table. Money is dirty she said, one of the dirtiest things. So many people touch it. This pile of brine would not explain its reek, only demanded that we accepted its stench as requisite. It had to have been the cash that stank, prior to its arrival…
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That dog again; enduring love.
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