1527 9 7
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It sometimes happens a student remains a friend long after you both have abandon academe.
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1527 5 3
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This woman is naked to the waist and then nakeder below that.
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1526 8 4
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Our ink was disappearing. All of it.
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1526 6 4
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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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1526 6 4
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Outlined against the thinly layered darkness of the room, there is a silhouette of a small boy with his feet pulled up to the chin, failing to hold its own against the thousand stares from the deep violating the stillness of his room, their long familiarity with the…
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1526 7 1
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They were pressing her about the money, it was always about the money.
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1526 2 1
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Tell them words are math counting forever four letters of truth
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1526 2 1
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Penny followed the woman into the warm, dark interior of her home, which smelled strongly of cumin and other familiar spices she couldn’t name. Penny noted that the tia’s hair had turned almost completely white and had grown very long since Penny had last
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1526 9 9
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I should have buried him on the saddleback and kept my mouth shut. I'll murder the bastard who did it.
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1526 7 5
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Perhaps you have heard the rumors of big money in poetry
Maybe that’s why everybody is writing it these days
Even Emily Dickinson must have heard these rumors
Myself, I suspected as much 50 years ago
And started early to accumulate my hoard of poe
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1526 0 0
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For you –
because you deserve more effort
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1526 9 7
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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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1525 2 1
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Like puddles when it rains,
like relationships in chains.
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1525 19 9
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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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1525 5 3
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“Me try anything,” he says, then laughs a little. “You’re fucked.”
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1525 5 3
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She worked the research desk. Like most ladies before computers and cell-phones she lead a quiet conservative life. She wore dresses, spent time with family and friends...Emma also had been stricken as a child
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1525 6 3
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After work and wine, I Take some red food coloring and empty it Into my bath water. I submerge myself and open my eyes Like looking backwards at the world through A liquid sunset. I push myself under water, squeaking Feet…
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1525 2 0
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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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1525 1 0
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I'm going up and down elevators all over the Financial District and I have no office.
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1525 13 4
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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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1525 17 13
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1525 1 1
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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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1525 2 0
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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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1525 5 5
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This may be too religious for you, as at first it was so with me. But I assure you, on my scholarly integrity, I have found the Genesis Serpent’s skin! Yes, that Genesis Serpent--though just a leftover piece of him,
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1525 3 1
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7 — IT'S HARD TO HAVE FRIENDS WHEN YOU'VE NEVER HAD ANY AND ARE STILL FUCKING WHINING ABOUT IT — Once he learned he didn't “bring anything to the table,” Worthless Veikass hit on the notion of [...]
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1525 16 10
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1524 6 4
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I am the boy with the olive skin who takes pictures of lewd sex acts performed by nobodies on stage at the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana.
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1524 3 3
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It is another evening of ordinary sand. The moon worms, all mellow and white, glow shine over the laminated floor. Shay's bladder is full, and protesting with a thump of ache. Shay holds on nervously.Last time she pissed tiny silver fish that roiled in the froth of her…
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1524 4 4
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The figure eight will fall on its side. Become infinity.
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