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I staggered away in the storm
tears frozen to my cheeks.
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1186118
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“The beginning was good. That’s what he likes. The moment when you’re driving in the open air and your hair is flying and your skirt is whipping up around your knees, and he’s smoking, of all things, and happy and looking at you."
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1186910
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I wanna make
banana peel poems--
slippery little booby traps
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118644
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I considered kissing Christian. It wouldn’t be terrible. I mean, it might be terrible, but it wouldn’t be awful. His teeth were a little crooked but he didn’t smell or anything.
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118630
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my molars are dancing, tekka-tekking to the strung-out paint can groove of my heart.
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118611
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Colton nods, without words, understanding the significance of every word that the Old Man has uttered, knowing that in the end, given enough time, we all go down that lonely corner, to embrace the darkness, wishing to be cured of our sentiments.
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118665
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When I got to Pete's house he was sitting on the curb smoking a cigarette, bruised and dirty, with a smoking pile of rubble behind him where his house used to be. I hadn't heard yet, but his ol' girl left him and blew up the house when she left.
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118684
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The Houston police devised a punishment for the adulterous thespian that would not hurt the nights or household income of his French young wife.
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118621
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...I told Uncle Lou I thought it (trans-gendering) looked like a thoughtful way of occupying the world. It was a personal triumph, for some individuals, over the destructive affects of denial. Besides, it hurt no one, and it didn’t destroy property. I alw
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118597
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We didn't know him from Adam...
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118587
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You are an heiress to drunks.
The statues of your forefathers stagger,
memorialized by gravity, their faces
half-lit eternally, as they reach into refrigerators
for another something
to keep away the cold empty.
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118510
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My famous ‘Black Feminist Casserole’ was soon renamed ‘34C casserole’.
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118553
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“But I don't HAVE an accent,” she said. With an accent. “Tell him I don't have an accent, y'all.” Looking from one friend to another. Messy ponytail bouncing. I just stared. I may have blinked. A couple times. Every syllable…
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118531
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"She saw they were absorbed in making faces at each other with a smartphone app that enlarged a mouth."
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118562
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Your usage of the English language / is awkward and passé—
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1185122
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There is nothing like your first time, and by that I am referring of course to the first time you purchased a 45.Going to a record store and buying a 45 is a uniquely Boomer experience. Because, alas, there are no more 45s. Or, for that matter, record stores. The…
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118500
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Warranties are what made America great, although hers has expired and the mailbox will remain empty for another fifteen days.
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118520
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I know you,
ladies and gentlemen
We see the near future
through you
Your factual face
as you sit indoors
Youthless
In your ordinary chair
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118563
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rockstar, moviestar, literary supernova – burning out before all the planets are declassified.
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11852011
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The nearsighted world/
puts on its lenses
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1185129
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Fax me back to South Street listening to the dumpster / trumpeter, standing like licorice in the rain, / as the fetid officers assemble for the raid
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11851910
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Falling//
is something that comes quite naturally/
to puffed up things. Like the soufflé
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118531
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It was cloudy, the way he liked it -- no baking in the sun. People passed occasionally. He sniffed at the joggers, “Health Nuts,” he dubbed them. He hadn’t exercised since his last high school gym class.
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118565
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In your mouth is the attic studio
Where your father’s brushes lie wet with water
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118543
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1. Walking here
with you
on these narrow
strands
of clean air
& imagination
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118520
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Her mother told her once: "Don't be no whore, Fe-fe."
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118521
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Fleas were a constant reminder that humans are food.
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118589
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They coo and gurgle in the warmth of twig and down. They are so delicate, hard to look at without thinking of death. I tell them I want for them chief among all things strength, speed, resilience.
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118534
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Carl’s peculiarity of toilet paper rolls is not covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act – he’s looked it up.
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118532
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I separate my thoughts into two / camps
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