1285 5 5
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It is said that lovers find lips in the dark through secret brain circuitry.
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128597
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When I first arrived/footling-breeched/you two were there/ahead of me.
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12851613
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He'd hung above her head for months.
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128553
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Most times a vertical word balloon floats before him.
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128500
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We were a perfect match of broken pieces of flesh and cobalt. We moved in waves of couch plastic crinkling and clicking.
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128432
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Remembering Ginsberg
who howled through just about everybody's idea of the real weirdo poet
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128411
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The drive back to Sac does nothing to sober me up, either, and although Avaline and I are ready to hurl, she takes me to her afternoon support group, “Lean On Me: A Place for Manic-Depressive and Bipolar Sufferers to Come Together.”
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128420
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The bearded old man, raised his weary body from the bedroll he had slept on last night and slowly stood up. Bones creaked as he worked the stiffness out of his joints, the pain and memory of endless days and nights riding the…
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128422
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Tomorrow, they'd bury their daughter . . . and still, so many questions. Why would a beautiful fourteen-year-old choose for herself such a horrible, painful death? In life, she appeared the antithesis of suicidal ideation: excellent grades, well-liked in school and…
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128487
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I supposed reluctantly that Princeton is soft as Macalester College is soft. A person could die just for having attended U.W.-Madison or Yale.
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1284139
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No king of Ithaca, but of each/
whining, banging, dust–clouded island/
of focused, physical work
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128453
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Don reports everything to Uzma and Rasheed, I'm aware of that. It doesn't bother me. I'm not hiding anything from them or anyone else.
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128452
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I am not covetous for catnip,
Nor care where I sleep at night.
It irks me not who takes my
Favorite chair, or swats me off a table.
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128400
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Even the stinging warmth of the Grey Goose wasn’t fun without Lisa whispering into his ear, telling him stupid little confessions that he would recite to her in singsong the day after. And she would beat her small fists against his chest solemnly with a
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128431
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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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128410
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1. Lamia I slapped the venomous dream from his mouth before he could spit in my eyes; fuck him and his rage, fucking Tonton Macoute or whatever he was--and I got the hell out and away from that house and the fires that raged on all floors, and I fled…
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1284144
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128430
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Blend the dog a drink and sit down beside him and draw straws for regrets.
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128400
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For you –
because you deserve more effort
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1284120
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Jody wakes some days with pieces missing.
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128463
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I stand corrected once more.
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1284178
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Mama loves birds but is afraid to fly.
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128311
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of Jim Beam when I was maybe fifteen. Or anyway old enough to admire the lesson.
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128363
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N-n-never screamscold a cat.
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128374
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we're not at war / with the world. We have papers.
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1283266
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Closed gate without fences
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1283127
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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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128372
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A wave lifted me from my seat, scattering more drops of vomit around, and I thought nastily about bringing the motion sickness bracelets back inside, dripping bags in tow, to ask for a refund.
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128356
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Wearing Land’s End clothes at life’s end
Driving around in circles in your Codgermobile
with 3 good hubcaps.
Who wouldn’t want to steal that?
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128320
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Left, I see parkland and cyclists and sun. Right: picnic blankets, naked men and lunchtime assignations.
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