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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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God damn you women get me all /
twisted up thinking oohrahrah and lala
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163040
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That Loving Feeling
How do I love thee?
I love the bulge
of your breast
along the inside
of my upper arm
when you lie on top
kissing me
I love
feeling the movement
of your nipple
along the tender skin
there
It
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16301711
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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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163041
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The months leading up to that night were unbearable. It was as if a debt loomed over us begging to be paid. We both knew I would find you dangling at the end of a rope, it was only a matter of when.
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She had liked her new husband's sternness, and the way he ran his hands over her body, noticed every inch of it, made her feel not invisible.He traveled during the week, wore cufflinks, worked out in hotel gyms. On the weekends, they redecorated her house and tried to…
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163000
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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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163000
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O' madam, betwixt the pages A story professed to love A wonder of descriptive prose Delights read enraptured “My favorite book”, so you said O' madam, your heroine is flawed Wounding herself beyond measure And those she swears she…
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16301512
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Soon enough, October’s ragged/
lawn will hide its deficiencies//
under withered leaves of oak,
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163011
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She seems to be demanding someone donate to her a beard. No one has gone any further with this, and the electricity of her song about beards, listing, growing more undulant, crescendos.
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163077
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My skin tells a story of pain and labor. It’s better than a tattoo and cheaper.
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162941
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"Now, here daddy was on the back porch at night talking with some man about leaving."
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162964
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I am the boy with the olive skin who takes pictures of lewd sex acts performed by nobodies on stage at the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana.
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16291614
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Dinner conversation reminds me of the chatter of birds. Happy talk. Nothing real.
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162923
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Where in the shadows of these raw streets
does love last longer than a flyer?
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162941
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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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1629158
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What's that snitch doin' here?
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162944
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It was like watching one of those vintage eighteen-frames-per-second films of someone trying to open a stuck umbrella.
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162985
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On the river he rows a dory. It is filling with water. There is a rectangular hole in the bottom.
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I’m lying on the floor curled up in the foetal position and about six people are stamping on me. [...] It’s really confusing down here, what with all the kicking.
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162912
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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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162961
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We walked into the light where tired elephants slung their trunks and big cats moved over hills. My head was swollen, the whole back of my skull throbbing and black.
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162985
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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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16291910
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Falling//
is something that comes quite naturally/
to puffed up things. Like the soufflé
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1629109
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Cinema Verite’ is the best book of poems I have encountered since Matthea Harvey’s Modern Life
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1629117
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No bustling inside
No extruded amber
Wings onyx straight jackets
A low hum of displeasure.
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162800
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The church pews were straining at the crowds who had come to see David get saved. There was no salvation in the water really, but the Baptists preached the gospel of immersion. There was a certain Baptist church in Kentucky that pressured a man who'd been sprinkled to get…
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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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