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She wasn't even trying to live.
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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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I’ve got a full day ahead of me; I have to write a brief in Lipshutz v. Fredbird, a property damage claim against the St. Louis Cardinals’ mascot for breaking a fan’s glasses as part of his routine.
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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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Then I am wearing a brightly colored raincoat while sitting on a deck among hundreds of tiny glowing spores
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I dream of benzene rings/
and polymer shrouds
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Phil doesn’t know anything. He thinks his truck is possessed by his dead mother.
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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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Mythical Itch and the Unicorns
Working Late
Jacuzzi Floozy
One Erection
Diego Rivera’s Poncho
Frieda’s Moustache
Avalanche
Babushka Dolls
Photographic Mammary
Drool
Sir Gruntsalot
Uber Rubber
Iota Pie
Elder Geese
Ladylike
Rud
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Her cash. It smelled like seven-dollar-a-quart gardenia perfume and cave aged cheese—like hope overgrown with mildew.
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At some point, indifference//
will swallow the small gasps./
The appalling will become the norm.
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What else, H, is there to say about heartbreak? What else could it be but our hands, cupped as if holding water against our chests, then broken into halves. Or the picture of this one, pretending to load a gun. Or this one, soaked in smoke—asking for
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Quantum transport rearranges grandma.
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Rumor was their only mission was to smash all the glass in the world. They sneezed and smashed and laughed like hell.
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I enjoy launching words into space. Please dangle a moment here while I prepare the next sentence. Ok. You can come in now. Take boiling for instance. And hawsers. The sound of words on a sheet of paper. The manifesto for a roll of sleep. Sleep is oblivious to…
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Every Monday you brought your Sunday finest to the bus stop...
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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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It is said that lovers find lips in the dark through secret brain circuitry.
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Hollywood is the land of the slow no.
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Woman With Water Bottles has taken up a little spot in the back of my brain, her hair tickling her eyes in the breeze.
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Today I'm feeling fertilized by an egg—
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And I don't know how long it will be until she comes outside and figures it all out.
Figures me out.
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At street level there is a small arrow on which is printed “Museum of Numbers” that points up a long narrow staircase. There is a restaurant on the first floor. All the way up the stairs, the air is permeated with smell of fried foods
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131122
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There was a man dressed in stately attire. His name was Abacus, which maybe you find strange, but then keep this in mind: it is, after all, just a name.
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The truth about the bird and the snake is this. They are dead. And me? I cannot stop thinking about them.
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“You own your own burial plot, but you don't own your home,” he'd said, and I couldn't help but agree.
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Your honour stinks of failed fishing trips to Galway.
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The virtuoso tortures a violin/
in homage to Paganini.
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Sometimes one person's shelter is another person's storm.
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