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He slumped forward, drooling into his lap.
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The Black Thing spread over the room, eating away his mother's face as well as the doctors and nurses who dashed in a frenzy around him until they too were swallowed in the black singing cloud.
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The others fell silent and cast glances back and forth to each other.
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If you find a nickel-plated Colt .38 lying on top of a worn copy of King Lear, you’ll know who you’re dealing with.
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You are walking through a canyon made of shelving units lined with colorful masterpieces of three-dimensional minimalist design
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“Choices overwhelmed us,” Thomas continued, years later, “like waves crashing.”
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Those who love aluminum bellies and landing gear and ailerons... that ilk... settled at the western edge of of LAX 24R 6L and called the encampment Flight Path.
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I remember meeting you many years later.
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She always wore a little smile. When she took off her robe, the class grew quiet.
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When I first arrived/footling-breeched/you two were there/ahead of me.
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Toxins make a body happy/
as if acceleration toward//
an end of consciousness/
is its own reward.
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Shh!
What?
The downstairs neighbors. They’re at it again.
What?
It’s the weekend? They’re both home?
Oh.
Remember?
I think so. Sort of.
Shh!
What’s that grunting?
He must be doing the heavy lifting.
Sounds like he’s hurt
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The car has been parked there for slightly more than a day now, and nothing has occurred—there’s nothing “unusual,” nothing “amiss.” Except that it’s there, still, as he follows his boys to school.
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We love the sparkling, speckless, spotless, spic-n-span, sanitary.
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The television volume softens in the shadows.
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We liked the orderly Newtonian/
with its fundamentalist action/
and reaction, its rules
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The next time I woke up there were several guns pointed at me. I opened my eyes to see my mom and dad watching as the local cops arrested me.
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On finding out that gonads are part of the female anatomy as well.
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A horizon shrinks a burden until it’s a seagull getting fat off vinegar fries. I’m in love with the way your mouth moves when you aren’t talking. When it fills with salt.
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I infuriate myself with this gift.
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He can't breathe can't breathe can't breathe turns the handle can't breathe falls onto the front porch gasping in the cold night air. And Dad is lying on the smoldering carpet in the parlor. And all the kids are upstairs. And he swallows the air. And ever
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Librarians love me,
you want to know why?
I don’t dog-ear pages,
I don’t even try.
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contact.
intimacy.
human
fucking
connection.
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and the smiles light the way
when the wind blows the darkness
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wash over me i fear not the erosion let the future scientists take their soul samples to figure out what happened how was there warning and when you go away let me believe the residue left behind is a choice a souvenir of the moment i want you full…
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“What would you get? What should you give a lady who’s one hundred for her birthday?”
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When he leaves herThe weather is glorious of courseUnblinking sunshineHe walks awayShe touches the edge of his sleeve I touch his sleeveBlack jacket flung over his shoulder Black jacket over his…
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It’s all a matter of warped mirrors. As in the multi-mirrored passage I stood before as a boy
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Slept on a chair last night in the Springfield, Mass., bus terminal. It was March, and a dude in shorts asked: "Yo, you smoke trees?" I said, "Sure. Who doesn't?" He said, "You buyin'?" I said, "Nope, I'm going out of the country." He smiled and said, "Alright." He started…
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Now, I am getting angry! Now you want me depressed too!
GET OUT! GET OUT!
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