1617 10 4
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Lapping salt beads from/
my crackling, ecstatic lips.
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16172012
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Our ironies don’t make us happy
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161683
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"She began singing The Police song, 'Roxanne' in a falsetto voice, just like Sting."
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161610
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The way I felt was as though you were, every day, making the conscious and deliberate decision not to be with me, not to share your life with me—and not to share my life, that you were choosing not someone else, but something else.
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161655
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From nine at night until five in the morningthe mannequins staff the Dream Shop.Customers sleepwalk in and murmur their enquiries.Some of the patrons are very demanding.They queue outside before opening…
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161600
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Scott was sure his father was reassured by the sticky stains in his Penthouse; Dad found them when Scott was thirteen. Dad had just one issue of that venerable porno, which Scott defiled with his joy. It was not the Penthouse models…
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161665
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The woman finished packing her things as the man walked in. They looked at one another for a long moment. …
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161642
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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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1616129
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161621
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I am far from home, wherever that is.
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161643
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"this is the year I'm going to plant a yucca tree in the garden."
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16161412
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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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161621
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161654
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It’s like drawing with Cesium
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161600
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They had a vague idea of how lips were to be used. Lips that parted feverishly, lips that burned. Lips - old, but still amateur. It was no wonder, considering that 'boys from good families' would never dream of even looking at a woman, let alone kiss her!
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161641
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In closing, Your Honor:After the interview Bad Blake, a/k/a "Otis" takes "Miss" Jane Craddock back to his hotel, ties her up, and gives her a Cleveland Steamer. For reference, please refer to my Brief, Exhibit A, showing a thespian named Ronald Jeremy…
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161677
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...I had a string of Sunday School medals that knighted me a warrior for Jesus Christ of Nazareth...
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161533
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Satan is a wide-eyed Pollyanna mime who communicates with a ventriloquist dummy that corrects my grammar, speaks in internet acronyms, tells me that I’d be a lot prettier if I just smiled more and lost fifteen pounds, and nags me about how all my problems
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161573
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-for Franz, the least understood comedian of all We all knew that Marissa's college boyfriend was ugly — there was the way she answered our mother's pestering "Is he cute?" with a stalling "Um, well..." and then there was the fact that she hadn't posted any photos…
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161566
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Devoid of flesh and muscle,
Composed of bone and air.
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161520
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Enid closes her bedroom door when she changes her clothes but leaves it ajar when she's doing her face; is she hoping some small talk might reach her dainty ears?
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1615156
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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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161577
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can they approve, our/gods in our wallets? only/when we tell them to.
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161576
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I ain’t your kissing cousin
That’s pretty plain to see
Baby, keep your pretty lips
Far away from me
I ain’t your kissing cousin
That’s pretty plain to see
You’re really very pretty
Come kiss me and we’ll see
We don’t live in a barnyard
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161533
|
eleven o'clock spills
despair all over
our bedspread
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16152011
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Reality for us must be broken so we can fix the one small insect of it we can capture and pin, wriggling.
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161511
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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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16152012
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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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161474
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God damn you women get me all /
twisted up thinking oohrahrah and lala
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161422
|
an awkward stage between
glued popsicle stick marsupial,
and mechanical tin foil mammal.
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