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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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161694
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We shot out the windows of an abandoned building nearby so as to trick them into thinking we’d had snipers stationed in that building.
They shot at the abandoned building.
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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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She was sick and tired of marriage. She didn't want to be a mother, but now she was.
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It’s like drawing with Cesium
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1616104
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Lapping salt beads from/
my crackling, ecstatic lips.
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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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161576
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They broke both of Jimmy's shins. / Gambling debt just like in the movies
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161566
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Devoid of flesh and muscle,
Composed of bone and air.
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Let's walk through this park. We can talk until dark. You have the look of a wolf. I'm not stupid, Jack. I'm a lamb, you'll see, once you get to know me. That tat is fierce and your leathers tight black. My ink is old and black suits me, I'm told. …
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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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161521
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I am far from home, wherever that is.
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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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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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161533
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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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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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1615156
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Call it a spell or a prayer or a ritual; it worked.
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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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161473
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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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161420
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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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She never saw me pull the wings off live flies or throw wood lice in the fire just to see them shrivel, drown a beetle in a stream of warm pee.
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...a headwater stream that has never had a name....
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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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I'd have gone even if I got F's for the entire two weeks. The homeless would have homes, the sick, medicine; the hungry would eat. They could not wait for the generosity of Kurban Bayramı. Now was the hour of relief. The children's eyes. Lambs whose bl
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