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At night, instead of sleep, there were new and secret pleasures. Half-awake lessons in dexterity, in the limber material of human life.
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Once upon a time there was a Vietnamese restaurant. And then there were two, and four, and eight...
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in a puddle of water, the butterfly rests on a stone
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You will never know how much it hurts
When someone else touches your face.
But I also know how much you count on others
To pull the slivers out of your heart.
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Published in Exquisite CorpseI…
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Darrell and I pulled into my driveway after being out all night long. A slash of sunlight fell across the purple Mexican sage beside my front walk. Except for the birds in the trees, there seemed to be an odd serenity to the air — until I spotted one
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I dream of benzene rings/
and polymer shrouds
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So I’ll wait for her to clear all burden from her head and feel the ocean move us. Stand up, walk over to me and kiss me as we glided through open water.
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The bar sounds grew (as bar sounds will) until everything rushed together -- clinking glass, tinkling ice, laughter and zippers going down then up.
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It was by the well on one cold early spring morning
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The dead horse on CNN
was floating there
in the floodwater
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Later I asked Mark if he wanted to watch, but his wife wouldn’t let him. She didn’t like kinky stuff, she said.
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The snow buzzes in the Ritalin air beneath Dairy Queen clouds
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Ahead, she heard voices. She approached very slowly, as quiet as possible. She knelt behind a pair of shrubs and peeked through a small opening.
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When I got that brain tumor I hallucinated this crazy doctor. Dr. Doug. He came into my…
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The cataclysm of all those photons/
mad to be a part of you
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Tony sat down in the hotel room with his back against the wall. He had a handsome face, with three-day stubble growing from it, his pupils very large as if frightened by something, or from deep thought. In his hand, was the winning lottery, Periodically he would get up…
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Not many people like Geminis.
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Now, I am getting angry! Now you want me depressed too!
GET OUT! GET OUT!
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He repeated these six words like a prayer. His only confession.
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They watched the seven o'clock news.
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fated and cruel, a person I don't love
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Sometimes it waited after dark, when everyone was asleep, and moved in slowly like a thief, working its way into all the ruwas, up everyone's nostrils, seemingly intent on making the people's mountain existence a troublesome one
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1.As fast as that I wake to astonishing desire. I'd met you at my parents' house just the weekend before but for them (them the drained students trying to relax, refill before their afternoon sessions) you are the stranger in the room,…
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When you're scared to write badly, that's when you write. You are probably trying to tell the truth.
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It turns out I know a thing or two about momentum. I know, I know. Like the crescendo of your bicycle wheels. Like the force the florist put on the stems the day Linda died. The way my fingers spin between planetary mass. This is how I know I’m not real
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Almost to the elevation of regret.
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