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From a window, the young Pole Krzysztof Penderecki saw resistance fighters hanged by Nazis...
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15182011
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The suite of dark rooms/
extends forever./
It’s no big deal.
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1518199
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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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151896
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Hey, how are you? she squeaked.
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151863
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"...easier to get milk from a male tiger than mercy from him."
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151811
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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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151844
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The figure eight will fall on its side. Become infinity.
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151864
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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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15181512
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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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151800
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I wear my gun so it shows,
so everyone knows.
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151899
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At this stage of the game you don't even matter enough to have an asshole.
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151800
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Not long ago, Owen the Second showed her a skull. He kept it in a brown cardboard box in the top of the closet. "My first wife," he said, and sneered, his lip bunching up around a scar just under his nose.
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and the smiles light the way
when the wind blows the darkness
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151844
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When I got that brain tumor I hallucinated this crazy doctor. Dr. Doug. He came into my…
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151821
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Judith was a bed wetter. Judith was a first-year college student and she was embarrassed that she wet the bed.
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1518134
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Jane says to Roy, “What are you doing, Roy?”“Fuck off, Jane, I'm reading,” says Roy.“Well you could have just said so.”“I did.”“I mean just without—”“Yeah, well fuck off anyway.”“I've had…
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151866
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We touch the places now, feel the hardness of bone...
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151820
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“Little Pig, Little Pig, Let me in.” One of them yelled out from behind the door. The wolves always loved to taunt him, itched for any chance they could get to fight.
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151897
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It sometimes happens a student remains a friend long after you both have abandon academe.
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151870
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I am a scavenger. I sit on the telephone wire, a ravenous vulture watching a man and a woman arguing across the street. The clouds remind me of ashy marshmallows I found in a fire pit yesterday. The woman starts violently shoving the man; he stumbles…
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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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151776
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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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151774
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God damn you women get me all /
twisted up thinking oohrahrah and lala
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151755
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He ran for home, screaming for help in the silent ravine.
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151766
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Age Eight: Custody battle. Reassure your worried mother that it’s alright, this will give you something interesting to tell your children one day. Until now, life has been very vanilla.
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151720
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I know you,
ladies and gentlemen
We see the near future
through you
Your factual face
as you sit indoors
Youthless
In your ordinary chair
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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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151742
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when down the street/ a female cat/ yowls with the force/ of a red light blazing/ in an alley.
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151720
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My sister Janis called me from Berlin and said to turn on the news. You could see the thick flurries of snow that were falling there and the flat feathers of peoples' breaths issuing from their mouths as they took turns swinging pick-axes, standing on top
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151743
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"this is the year I'm going to plant a yucca tree in the garden."
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