1512 4 3
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"this is the year I'm going to plant a yucca tree in the garden."
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151266
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We touch the places now, feel the hardness of bone...
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151223
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BABY MOUSE She and the baby squeeze into the neon blue star-studded rocket ship in front of K-Mart, a tight fit because the baby's still inside her and the ship is made for under ten year olds and the steering wheel dents her stomach and the baby backs up and…
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15121911
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I'm just a rental dog myself
looking for the guardian of starlight
peeing on the expired parking meters
and barking up all the wrong trees.
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15121211
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When I no longer know you, what signal will you give to remind me that you and I once loved?
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151121
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Like puddles when it rains,
like relationships in chains.
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1511199
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I know this: the sky is vast here//
and the sun unforgiving/
to any architecture not the best
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151176
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Clear as my conscience may be, you still haunt me as the brown settles to black
sit there and recommence as if nothing had ever happened, your hands conducting the orchestra of your purity.
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151111
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Hours. Hours, bygone. He said, “Come to me all liquored up and you know what’s gonna happen.” Sure. It was every bit true, what he said, six months bygone, chewing off cuticle scabs somewhere out west.
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151171
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They were pressing her about the money, it was always about the money.
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15111512
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Effie reckons the river her sister keeps asking about, the Great Pee Dee, was named after some Indians.
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15111811
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hoping for a happy outcome/
like a kindly voice on the line
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151121
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Five o’clock, and Madame choosing her evening legs. Elizabeth assisting. Elizabeth will continue to assist until midnight, despite the chaos, at which point the authorities will tell her such assistance is no longer necessary.
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151152
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i built a house in the trees
before i lived in the sky
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151111
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I like him. I really, really like him in a way that I don’t like guys, not anymore, not after all the dirty lies into get in my pants, the dirtier lies to get out of them later, the indignities and the humiliations and the disappointments.
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151120
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The inhabitants of the surrounding neighborhood steered clear of the Lot, mindful of its existence, its countless drags of scrap, drenched with the fused association of many scenes and emotions from memory and experience. Left to its own devices, the place is now…
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151196
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He brought me kisses from New York.
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151174
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Somebody needs to call Frank. The pediatrician who fixes cars on the side.
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151197
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You could hear her coming from a long way off
as she kept trying to catch her breath,
like she was getting the fun rattled out of her bones.
But it was laughter, laughter that kept on
filling up her belly from the inside,
and she was having tr
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151055
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He ran for home, screaming for help in the silent ravine.
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151084
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Our ink was disappearing. All of it.
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151064
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...the knives she laid out on the porch before her husband left her, washed and dried, set neatly by copper pennies.
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1510127
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The fish would need a name, but she didn’t know how to tell if it was a boy or a girl. Did fish have penises?
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1510105
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how alike, breakup & death
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1510178
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15101711
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I knew a girl on Folly Island who took
showers in water so hot
her skin blushed pink rosettes.
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15101614
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One day we turn a corner, and two fat little doggies spot us and come running up. Oh, they are so glad to see us!
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151020
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Benton showed her his old room, a shrine of old posters and records. But it had been cleaned out, made to look like a guest room. “Kiss me,” Benton said. “April.” “That was just a name, so don't get any…
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151021
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You kissed me, and my heart stopped beating – it didn’t need to any more. I had your heart to beat for both of us.
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151067
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I start with a morsel of truth, then hide it with lies...
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