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He extended his bent arm to its full length with a crack, straightened his hunched body and tried, and failed, to close his lips over his frightening grimace. Stone lips are not pliable.
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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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161542
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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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161533
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eleven o'clock spills
despair all over
our bedspread
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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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161541
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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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1615104
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Lapping salt beads from/
my crackling, ecstatic lips.
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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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16152012
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Our ironies don’t make us happy
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161433
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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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161476
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They broke both of Jimmy's shins. / Gambling debt just like in the movies
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161432
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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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161421
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I am far from home, wherever that is.
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161476
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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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161400
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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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161421
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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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161398
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... black holes suck in matter and supernovas explode.
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161355
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You will never know how much it hurts
When someone else touches your face.
But I also know how much you count on others
To pull the slivers out of your heart.
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161373
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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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161322
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an awkward stage between
glued popsicle stick marsupial,
and mechanical tin foil mammal.
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16131313
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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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16131410
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The smart drivers know the signs/
and the back street ways around the wreck.
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161311
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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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161375
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...a headwater stream that has never had a name....
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161377
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fuck you Charles Bukowski
go cry in your eggs in a Jersey diner
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161311
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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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161300
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If they don’t cover consequences in your gifted and talented program, you may care to research it.
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161321
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Odd bookends
stuck in familiar territory,
we have become lethargic
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161351
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...was discovered today hanging from a shower outlet in his bathroom...
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161312
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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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