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For you –
because you deserve more effort
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161098
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... black holes suck in matter and supernovas explode.
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161000
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“We’re starting to get into weather control,” Mark said.
“Can you really do that?” Rachel asked, trying to sound supportive and not skeptical.
“There are people out on the west coast in Seattle, who’ve been experimenting with it,” Mark said.
“Bec
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161086
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I think about the weight of those words—how they are silenced
by the weight of stone, by the weight of 11 years in a Jinzhou prison cell,
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1610128
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He said his wife levitated.
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161077
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can they approve, our/gods in our wallets? only/when we tell them to.
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161011
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Then a flicker caught my eye. To the left of the balcony, where the residential high-rise abutted a commercial building to its right, a shape--half-dark, half-lit--stood on a limestone ledge.
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1610129
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16101412
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She was sick and tired of marriage. She didn't want to be a mother, but now she was.
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Benton showed her his old room, a shrine of old posters and records. But it had been cleaned out, made to look like a guest room. “Kiss me,” Benton said. “April.” “That was just a name, so don't get any…
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161000
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Late spring, summer before cancer. Frank drove Max and his pal Jason to Cincinnati for their first rock show. Less Than Jake at Bogart's. A two-hour drive for ska-punk.
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161012
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If it weren't for the different lengths of dock, I would think the river just goes past me. Maybe it does, and the banks move too. Orderly where the clouds are random. I have cormorants, passengers, and salmon. They catch each other. They make my crew money. When did my…
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161021
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Blood had soaked through his Converse All-Stars, and into his cotton sox. It was the smell of metal, of iron more specifically, that nudged his mind out from the fog of shock and denial, closer to the reality of his circumstances.
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16101512
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Soon enough, October’s ragged/
lawn will hide its deficiencies//
under withered leaves of oak,
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16101912
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I was to limp with stunned, growing horror, as I navigated through the swirling smoke and maze of human corpses...
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161021
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She pictured the President leaving the hospital a few days later, hobbling on a cane. Jackie beside him, Caroline and John-John dashing from a waiting limousine. He couldn’t die. She’d looked into his eyes. John F. Kennedy spoke to her.
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160944
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The figure eight will fall on its side. Become infinity.
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160920
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the smell of the small cedar chips burning in the fireplace
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1609156
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Now his daughter was an American citizen and Max wanted only the chance to board the SS Maua and disembark in New York.
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160910
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He huddles against the wooden beam of a chop suey stand, glaring out into the giant technological organism that was his city. Lights, hulking monstrosities and endless possibilities were teeming in the night-hustle that surrounded him.
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160998
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Where the General is, the world is data and patterns and signatures.
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160921
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I am far from home, wherever that is.
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160952
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Does the stuff at the dollar store really work as well as the stuff at Calvin Klein?
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160911
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The last row of furniture is all black leather. In unison the tigers hop onto a couch a piece, sit calmly on their haunches, and reach for remote controls buried in the cushions. Roaring, they paw at the remotes.
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16092012
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I say her- it might be him-/
but from a distance I supply the details I prefer.
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1609104
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Lapping salt beads from/
my crackling, ecstatic lips.
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1609126
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It's 100 degrees in your tower/and that braid you're so proud of/is one hot ladder to nowhere.
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160989
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They coo and gurgle in the warmth of twig and down. They are so delicate, hard to look at without thinking of death. I tell them I want for them chief among all things strength, speed, resilience.
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160864
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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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