3274 56 35
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In between, they love each other madly, fuck like the rare....
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3274 29 13
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My round belly is deflating. I disappear a little more by the day. It's been weeks. Soon, I may not even be here.
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3271 49 16
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You think about it all the time. Cancer cancer cancer. Cancer leg. Cancer arm. You've eaten too many cancer hot dogs and sausages in your life. You've gotten too many cancer sunburns. Cancer throat. Cancer head. Too much cancer sex.
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3270 0 0
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All through their descent sequence K’var had nervous premonitions.
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3268 34 17
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Don’t rub me out now, not tonight. Or if you do, do it right.
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3266 6 5
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Even the neighborhood houses show their sunburnt faces and symptoms of heat stroke in the glow of their night lights.
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3266 28 27
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Acts have no meaning, but they do have / trajectory
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3266 7 2
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In the kitchen they discovered the instruments. A flute under the sink tucked behind a rusted silver pipe. An oboe on the floor in the pantry. And a violin across the ice tray in the freezer, now dark.
"Not ice," sister said, holding it up by the neck.
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3263 14 10
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...what will happen to me buying drugs on the street, at night...?
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3261 5 6
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You were like a delicate lace
that barely mentions the wrist.
But you were also at your best
with strings attached.
Let me say this. If innocence
is supposed to be so overwhelming
as to do nothing on purpose,
not carried away by sensatio
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3260 17 10
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Eli the dog cocks his head like a pistol;
half cock, full cock.
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3259 17 9
|
So where was I? On the curb, the stingy, gritty curb of existence, hard on the ass, as usual on the rim of it all, the ledge of success, well to tell the truth far from the ledge but about to fall off, floating on the circumference of meaning, riding a c
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3258 31 31
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When Uncle Dan got sent to the Alzheimer's ward, the ladies licked their lips. Fresh meat.
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3258 3 1
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This book is for those who have learned that sex is one of life's unpleasant experiences--like paying taxes, or renewing a driver's license--that does not become less painful through repetition.
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3257 39 31
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On the ground deputies comb the back roads. Border Patrol scouts from the air
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3257 14 3
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He pounds the roof of the Pontiac with the side of his fist and it rumbles like a timpani. He raises his head to light and wipes the sweat from his forehead. There's no sense in fighting it. He will go back and knock on Peter's door.
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3254 11 6
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She got the day wrong. It was one of her usual mistakes, getting the day wrong. A Wednes for a Tues. Or a 5th for a 6th. Sometimes it took her until afternoon to realize it. Which probably meant that it didn’t make much of a difference anyway.
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12. Paper Wings (Gillian Welch)
This one's really depressing. Maybe you shouldn't listen to it so much.
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3252 13 8
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1. It uncurls in your hand like an autumn leaf but fails to recall your happiness. 2. A triangle is the sum of its angles a priori. 3. Leaning on the lens of psychotropics leaves you with restless legs and akithisia. 4. English…
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3251 44 20
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He was manic, depressive, schizophrenic, bipolar, paranoid, cyclothymic, borderline, or a genius.
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3249 20 15
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In the air a shining heart, wet lungs releasing and releasing, your sweet milk head, your pulsating skin. Only an inch separates us. A shimmer of hot air trembles like boiling water above the highway. There are seeds floating in the sky. These things will become other…
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3248 23 17
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In the 15 years that I've worked at my local public library, I've learned that we librarians do plenty of things for our patrons that aren't in our job descriptions. After a patron asked me to change her flat tire, and another wanted to check out our pencil sharpener,…
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3245 18 11
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My poetry is bare, showing its pink and purplish imperfections and its injuries. I buy it a dress to hide its bruises, to ornate it a little, to make it smile. On its rather ugly and mishaped body, the dress looks comical, ridiculous, clumsy, like a bird with a broken wing.…
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3242 33 30
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I don't want you like a tiger doing homework in the circus
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3242 11 9
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An old man, a widower; living alone, defenseless. It was a given.
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3242 7 4
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He imagined them raining down on her and then, like little radio towers, transmitting the sensation of her skin and warmth to him. He could feel her from the other side of the plastic. She could stay there, and he would feed her Chicken and Stars.
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3241 11 6
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He tells people about the whores, but what he really recalls is when someone from a room above dropped a rug on his patio.
|
3241 6 1
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It doesn’t get dark for hours but Sam doesn’t know that. Mum bought extra-thick blinds for his bedroom windows.
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3239 13 12
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I’m a black and white figure--out of place in a Saturday morning cartoon.
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3237 6 5
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Together, we were smooth, shining and oiled. I used to wear a crocheted bikini around the house and I felt like such a dirty girl, dirty but delicious
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