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178100
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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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178163
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178121
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I knew I spoke out of turn when I asked my father's old friend Charlie Jobe what he thought would come of moving to the veterans' camp, or "Village of the Deranged", as the newspaper has since taken to calling it. That was their description after all the
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178176
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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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1781137
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That year, if you asked Al, was truly the best of times, the worst of times.
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178100
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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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1781148
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She parks the car and trudges insidefor her daily visithoping that the new rouge hidesthe old tears.Five years now she has been comingto see himHe looks nothing like the pictures toanyone but her.They say she should go homeand rest, relaxShe doesn't know how…
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1781109
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Growing up in Mississippi meant growing up in a “dry” State which it was until 1966. Dry State meant selling alcoholic beverages, except for beer, is illegal. Period. By period I mean there was no distinction between selling whiskey and stuff to adults and…
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1781128
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Warning: reader beware, there's sex in the air.
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1781126
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a little bitter for the better
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1781158
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Your girlfriend with the Dresden blue eyes with the sleek belly & gorgeous scars from ripping off Avenue A dealers has you on a leash of short-term amnesia. You can't recall the last time you got off from being trigger-happy inside her & you formed a…
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178155
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The first time Momma shows me a demon is during revival week at church.
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178187
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A bum leaves his shopping cart
in the middle of the intersection
at 7th Ave and Perry St
and walks away
leaving everything behind
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178042
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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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17801613
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There is no hate in his eyes...
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178032
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"Pull around," Rachel says. "Pull around him, dammit."
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178000
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I wear my gun so it shows,
so everyone knows.
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178076
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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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1780168
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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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178052
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The last time I saw Jackson, I didn’t write down the set list. This time I didn’t write down the set list, either.
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178020
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Joseph K. ran a publishing house in the shadow of the Castle.
Perhaps “publishing house” is too grand a title. Joseph K. kept a battery of six or seven (depending on repairs) manual typewriters, a crate of carbon paper, and a large stapling machine
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178000
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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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1780109
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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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178000
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The words(worlds) have become abstracted through contempt?
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17801711
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maybe a day in deep winter
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1779147
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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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177983
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"She began singing The Police song, 'Roxanne' in a falsetto voice, just like Sting."
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177955
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From nine at night until five in the morningthe mannequins staff the Dream Shop.Customers sleepwalk in and murmur their enquiries.Some of the patrons are very demanding.They queue outside before opening…
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177900
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She says he is not a real person. He says he doesn't understand. And that she should be with the dudes who want to be her boyfriend.
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