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Even if you're doing it together, there's no unity when everyone's dancing to their own tune.
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I didn't believe in hiding secrets or broken arrows. So I told my new girlfriend, who in earnest, tried shedding pounds like ugly memories, who glued herself to my shag carpet, watching exerise videos--that I didn't sleep alone. I tried to be as sensitive as possible,…
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Why would anyone stash a used condom in a Bible?
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The first time Momma shows me a demon is during revival week at church.
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It's none of my business,
where Carl puts his prick.
But I know one thing;
Them Bohunk women go to pot quick.
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I got on the Greyhound Bus at 11 a.m. and sat by myself staring out the window. I could see the reflection of my own dark beard in the window, a 27 year-old man with a huge poem bursting my heart, gasping to get out into the bright lit-up world out there,
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The man and the woman looked at each other almost shyly. The man flicked his eyes away self-consciously and looked outside, seeing the clouds in the distance, the smaller buildings…
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I had a dream. "And it was a long dream, as dreams go. . ."
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I held her hand through two divorces, I warned her that gorgeous Geoffrey was homosexual when she was oblivious, and I fed her children when she was off at rehab (four times before it 'took').
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Allen would stroll the remains of the orchard, reminiscing with Tad, flirting with dementia.
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How long have you been waiting for me? How long?
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I pointed, trying to keep a rising frisson of alarm from my voice.
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The dog awakens at the sound of a petal falling, sure that barbarians are at the gate. She opens wide her yellow teeth.
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Each time his eyes closed, he shook off the sleep, whimpered, and opened them wide again. I’d never watched a baby fall asleep before, but I realized at that time that falling asleep could be a scary thing. The world gets fuzzy and starts slipping awa
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My body feels chilly but it's not from the outside temps. It seems to me it's the opposite of a fever.
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He didn't want to read his father's statement. Yet still he lingered, poised over the kitchen table, where his father had left it.
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"What does it say about our political process when I could pick students at random out of any of my classes who would do better than the actual candidates. That scares me. What’s happening to people? How did we get here?”
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I had enough judgment, anger and vengefulness from the people around me in the steel town of Pueblo, Colorado, where I was growing up. I didn’t need more from my God.
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I blame the fucking mosquito net.
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The television volume softens in the shadows.
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My father died. I took his clothes.
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“Why is there a gigantic sex toy sitting on your dining room table?” Mark asked recently. “That's not a gigantic sex toy,” I said. “It's a Wahl Hot & Cold Therapy Massager.”“Which is?” “An Advanced Pain…
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skin cancer
walks along Zuma beach
at noon
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"Thanks for the wild sex--let me know if you have any problems with the lint trap."
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There was a certain romanticism in it, the salty old man sidling up to me at a bar, rhapsodizing in a slurred stream of conscious about the state of the world, the country, the state of his own heart. He didn't have an eye patch nor beard, nor was he…
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Entering that darkroom is like slipping through the barrel of a rifle.
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