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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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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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Ann had the vague idea that they would get it all worked out, and somehow, by tonight, she’d be in Robert’s arms again, and he’d be the old Robert, the man she’d known 15 years ago. She had no way of knowing, of course, that a Robert was going to
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Falling//
is something that comes quite naturally/
to puffed up things. Like the soufflé
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Home is where my parents live and my relatives visit.
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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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paper cuts, an old film unraveled
from its reel, risking exposure.
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Where the General is, the world is data and patterns and signatures.
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163910
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I'm going up and down elevators all over the Financial District and I have no office.
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Of course then I did it all over again. Got married, that is. Fortunately, this one worked out.
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The last row of furniture is all black leather. In unison the tigers hop onto a couch a piece, sit calmly on their haunches, and reach for remote controls buried in the cushions. Roaring, they paw at the remotes.
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She rolls up at school with the word MAYHEM marker-penned across her stomach, wrote so big the first and last letters graze each inner thigh bone. She says it's in honour of some rock star I never knew.
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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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Well, just put your hand on my knee, alone in my room, perv, unasked-and-unflirted for, go get a date, you coward, you limp-dicked male bitch . . .
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163810
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While the tea was steeping, Ms. Darcy unwrapped the package. The book was lovely. It had nice heavy paper and the print was a good size for reading. The cover was glossy and not too showy, and Ms. Darcy thought it would look just right on her shelf.
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Sparky took to me immediately. In some atavistic canine way he knew I was simpatico to a dog like him.
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163853
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The porous bear the anchorite’s vial
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163841
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Rye goods
* Cracker brot: best practices
* Recipes: never embellish!
* Boughten: what to avoid
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16381512
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Soon enough, October’s ragged/
lawn will hide its deficiencies//
under withered leaves of oak,
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163820
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“Little Pig, Little Pig, Let me in.” One of them yelled out from behind the door. The wolves always loved to taunt him, itched for any chance they could get to fight.
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163755
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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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God damn you women get me all /
twisted up thinking oohrahrah and lala
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Devoid of flesh and muscle,
Composed of bone and air.
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Just like D-Ray White’s tapping still bounces off the mountains if the right person is listening, Hasil’s hoots and howls are trapped in record wax like a blood-drunk mosquito in amber.
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an awkward stage between
glued popsicle stick marsupial,
and mechanical tin foil mammal.
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The smart drivers know the signs/
and the back street ways around the wreck.
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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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