1560 7 6
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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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156010
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“Well” I say. “What do you think about the dilemma of a guy who’s tortured by a history of incest and bondage?”
“Depends” Says Al. “On who was cested and who was bonded.
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156042
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Take shelter from the rain inside the Museum of Sex.
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156043
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Nancy's brother, Ronnie would wait until church was out and pull the bench up to the piano play and sing show tunes, even humming them loudly if he didn't remember the lyric. Crooning away — as if he had the lead in a Broadway musical. Well, that was part of it,…
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156064
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The bartender keeps asking what you smell and you say: lemons, oak, and pear. I smell lust. We move to the reds. Pinot Noir. Cabernet Sauvignon. Port.
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156054
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He said he'd meet me at the Lyric before curtains. For drinks. Only he didn't. Which was OK. The seat was softer, roomier without him. Buzzer rang, doors closed. His loss. Rusalka was clearer. More resonant. Vibrant. Better. …
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156065
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Nor woke, as always, to a dark room smelling of the lavender she kept in little bottles to perfume the otherwise stank air. Outside, she could still see the edge of the moon hanging there like a lopsided smile. The early summer wind blew in and stirred the faded floral…
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1560117
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On his knees
he divinates diverging lines
with belly laughs he levitates
the rebel spheres into geodes .
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156044
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Burger King has rekindled Flame, its $4 broiled-meat-scented spray.
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1560109
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Mosaics are a trick of the eye, seeming
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156053
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The porous bear the anchorite’s vial
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156053
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Slept on a chair last night in the Springfield, Mass., bus terminal. It was March, and a dude in shorts asked: "Yo, you smoke trees?" I said, "Sure. Who doesn't?" He said, "You buyin'?" I said, "Nope, I'm going out of the country." He smiled and said, "Alright." He started…
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15602015
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Falling Water almost fell./
12 million dollars later//
it will splay itself a little longer
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156020
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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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156000
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Lulu Petite was sitting in a lounge chair by the side of the pool when she heard the man splash into the water, almost unnoticed by the guests milling around the backyard of the palatial estate. Everybody, seemingly, was involved in a balancing act of one
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155900
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Sofia looked around and found herself at a boulevard. She could see the town exit ahead of her. The bike still lied on the ground.
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155974
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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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15591613
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There is no hate in his eyes...
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155921
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Once a month I fuck the boss. It’s not part of my job description. We have a meeting in her office, after thirty minutes she opens the door to what appears to be a storeroom but is actually a well-appointed fuck chamber ...
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155978
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“You should've let him drown,” she once told me. Doesn't she see that I did? I'll let her drown, too.
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155900
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There won't be dancing, anymore. That isn't true, that can't be true; but there is no floor to dance on, you know?
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155966
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155989
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Throw them up there but try to make it look tidy. Try to become a little bit paranoid, just enough that you slightly overestimate how much they think of you at all.
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15591312
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Myrna came home from her new, midnight shift, waitressing job at the Waffle House saying she was sorry but she couldn't take any more gray-haired Jesus-types with their dollar bills held high, releasing a few so they would flutter, as if borne by wings, onto the tables as…
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155962
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Her fingers scampered over the table, practicing the deft stitching of the basilar artery.
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1559119
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1559127
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“If they look that good in shorts.” I warned him once, in a candid, humorous moment, “Then they’re probably too young for you to look at.”
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15591211
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Jesus came strolling
by in his sandally Jesus foot sandals.
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155910
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[WARNING: DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 'R XMAS!]
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1558199
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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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