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At this stage of the game you don't even matter enough to have an asshole.
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1779168
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Lou Reed was sitting in CBGB,
I was sitting on Greenwich Ave. and West 10th street.
I didn't know him then and I didn't know him later either,
but we were both there.
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177921
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Two days before Christmas 1946, my mother put me on an Illinois Central railroad train at the whistle stop of Neoga, Illinois.
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1779128
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Warning: reader beware, there's sex in the air.
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177955
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The first time Momma shows me a demon is during revival week at church.
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1779138
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The stars align against us. Lines of force/
collaborate to push us off the edge/
into the dark abyss we’ve joked about.
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177900
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The words(worlds) have become abstracted through contempt?
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1778147
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Bones consolidate with age. The fleshy/
bits of body follow by wrinkling and/
spreading outward, appearing to expand.
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1778169
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How a breeze feels evaporating sweat on neck and forearms.
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177842
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The villagers smash in a garage door with their heads, causing some to bleed from the ears and mouth.
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177891
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for paul celan take it like an amulet a jewel like a tulip filling up the expanse of green the volatile view from within your thin wrist you write into manuscript for the hand is a map with but grasping still it is but a like two palms like a…
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177832
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All I wanted was to love her.
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17781613
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There is no hate in his eyes...
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177832
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"Pull around," Rachel says. "Pull around him, dammit."
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1778137
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That year, if you asked Al, was truly the best of times, the worst of times.
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177800
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Her hair’s the color of LA at night
On such occasions when the Santa Anas
Have left the hills bone-dry and burning bright
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177841
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Andrew smiled at her while he pulled out his penis. He then held it between his fingers and tugged at it, stretching it much like a rubber band
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177876
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She crossed the room to a tub in the center, the great woman with flowing locks of bronze, turning the taps until a heatless white became warm enough to bathe in. She added soap of some kind and the light became the bubbles,…
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1778105
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"Some Purgatory in order, innit?"
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17782311
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The missions never change:/
To plant a bed of fast-blooming/
Flowers of annihilation/
Across an unspecific plain.
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177800
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And the ocean was black and green and blue—as your dress that clung to your body’s curve. Round as the bend of the water trailing the false line of the shore.
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1778109
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Cinema Verite’ is the best book of poems I have encountered since Matthea Harvey’s Modern Life
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177822
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177783
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"She began singing The Police song, 'Roxanne' in a falsetto voice, just like Sting."
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1777104
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The loss of my first mentor came as a harsh blow. Roaming the forest with my dog Rosie just wasn’t the same. Her heart was in the right place, but when it came to armed combat, Rosie just didn’t have the goods.
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177700
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By the end of the evening, a dark circle of sweat stained the overstretched satin over her dome of a belly. José told her to take it easy. “When people come to a tango bar, they want to think about sex, not babies.”
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177750
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the moon is the pupil of the cave’s eye
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177742
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Take shelter from the rain inside the Museum of Sex.
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177776
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I pay for 3 Trump Troll Dolls and a package red licorice twizzlers and head back toward the door. Dancing Gnome Girl is there to greet me. I stick a twizzler in the teeth of the donation pail.
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177700
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I remember where I was when I heard the news. Across my computer screen: FDA demands recall for 2008 — all 365 days.
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