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Crimson dawn cloaks the starlit night,devoured flesh canvassed fright.Memories flash,as moment’s lapse.Feelings trapped,my love gasped.
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In the gutter, the paper signs turned back to pulp.
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They were pressing her about the money, it was always about the money.
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An anorexic middle-aged woman walked up and watched me..
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I am far from home, wherever that is.
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That was the start of it, the vigils. Every night at the foot of the Gilt Spears a group of people congregated in a housing estate to look up at the stars. Housewives with working away husbands, fractious toddlers hanging upside down…
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If you're in an airport in the predawn hours, you are by definition a failure. You failed to make your flight; the airline gave you motel money but you're hoarding it
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The surface temperature of the sun is 9,800 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Damien, my boyfriend, talks me back to sleep when I wake up in the middle of the night, he doesn't judge me for being afraid of the dark, or being lost at sea, he simply listens to me breathlessly explaining why I'm awake— again— at 3:32 in the…
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and the moon shines on like a silver dollar
and coyotes in the desert scream and holler
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With small and fleshy hands/
I scratch at enigmatic stones,
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Take shelter from the rain inside the Museum of Sex.
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Hers or mine?
You figure it out, jackass.
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. . . a visitor from the preceding century would have been aghast to the point of vomiting to behold the regard with which pandas were now held almost universally.
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She always wore a little smile. When she took off her robe, the class grew quiet.
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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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I married a penguin. Her waddle made for a scenic view.
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It’s been stored away in the cedar chest since my mother put it there in the early 60’s, well, 1962 to be exact. She was a careful woman, but over these many years the bow has flattened, and the wind-up parts have corroded some from non-use. Oh, the
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I held at my gut and immediately regretted laughing at Frank when he pulled the pocket-knife out on me. I doubled over and fell to the floor.
"John, was a typer all this important?" Frank asked, knife in hand.
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No, I’m not at the junior high bus stop. I’m at the dining room table with my parents.
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She'd have to be careful, but couldn't you just see it?
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When I bite into a York Peppermint Pattie, I get the sensation of being curled in a ball inside a cold, dark cave filled with my darkest, most paralyzing fears.
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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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Sunday afternoon was the best. The kids drew straws for a chance to sit on the stool in the Kitchen with the broken armrest. I think mom thought it was an antique but it was just a piece of shit her dad picked up second hand.
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It was not that he was boring – it’s just that he needed a lot of encouragement. When he came, he whispered to himself, ‘ohgodohgodohgod’ - like it was something to be ashamed of, to be sorry for. I wanted to hold him close against me but I also n
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They looked like girl’s jeans. Matt held them against himself in the mirror. Not that girl’s jeans were a mark against them. Usually, girls had better jeans anyway. Matt took two of the biggest pairs out of the big chest in his grandmother’s back closet.
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"We gotta get out of here", you said
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Sometimes he could feel so small he believed he could fit through the eye of a needle.
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Burger King has rekindled Flame, its $4 broiled-meat-scented spray.
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