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Jasmine as skeined skins… of liquid hers, by willow courts, the lychee's water wains: as apple-moats flush fawn in russet light, through cherry floats, the leopard-dots of dawn. Branch to branchlet green …
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159942
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There existed within them the deeper perdition, of course, the perdition of culture, American culture, the 21st Century suburban version, made up of Strip Malls From Hell.
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159900
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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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159955
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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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159974
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God damn you women get me all /
twisted up thinking oohrahrah and lala
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159944
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The figure eight will fall on its side. Become infinity.
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159941
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The little girl spooned strawberry yogurt into her mouth as a pleasant morning breeze swept across the balcony of the hotel. The girl lifted the cup and stuck her tongue inside to lick the yogurt off the edges. Across the small round table, the girl's mother sat…
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15991313
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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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15991410
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The smart drivers know the signs/
and the back street ways around the wreck.
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159942
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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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15991811
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"We gotta get out of here", you said
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159943
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"this is the year I'm going to plant a yucca tree in the garden."
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15991310
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There was something about his eyes that seemed more sly than happy. He looked like a teamster winking at a mayor who’d just paid him off to keep trucks rolling through Scranton.
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1599128
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...ghosts still resentful, ghosts far from home...
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159975
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Why would anyone stash a used condom in a Bible?
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159977
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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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1599117
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No bustling inside
No extruded amber
Wings onyx straight jackets
A low hum of displeasure.
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159821
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Like puddles when it rains,
like relationships in chains.
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15981711
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When he got out of sick bay, they moved him into a room with three other alkies. A kid, a tree trimmer, and a Catholic priest.
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15981512
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Effie reckons the river her sister keeps asking about, the Great Pee Dee, was named after some Indians.
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1598106
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strobe lights wash me up and down
and here is the hottest mad dancer of
the early morning black and loaded
rushed into a freeze frame
...Also link to the song "Nope"
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1598128
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He said his wife levitated.
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15981110
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Over his usual ham sandwich and Pepsi for lunch Uncle Waldo used to often say, “Going out in the dead of night without a flashlight is dangerous” and I'd nod but I kept slipping out, sneaking down my secret path and take a dip in the rich neighbor's pool because…
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159822
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Over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house they went, Will and his new girlfriend Emma from Atlanta for the annual family dinner and drunken disaster in Allendale.
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159800
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Sometimes he could feel so small he believed he could fit through the eye of a needle.
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159852
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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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159885
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When the medicine started to interrupt her sleep, she made elaborate breakfasts – sweet potato pancakes, crepes with homemade cream cheese filling, omelets with spinach and brie, hand-rolled croissants stuffed with bittersweet chocolate. It was in those e
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159800
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For you –
because you deserve more effort
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159870
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I am a scavenger. I sit on the telephone wire, a ravenous vulture watching a man and a woman arguing across the street. The clouds remind me of ashy marshmallows I found in a fire pit yesterday. The woman starts violently shoving the man; he stumbles…
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1597135
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Slice the moment into/
free body diagrams/
of elegant simplicity
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