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Lapping salt beads from/
my crackling, ecstatic lips.
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154396
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Everyone loves a story of love
unrequited.
But what about the stories
of the unrequited lovee?
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1543104
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Come, bring your sadness
to the precipice of my body,
bury it within me like a tool
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154365
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It was the sodabottle glasses that scared Entro the most. Stubbled with scratches, taped with residual angst and piercing his soul with contempt he’d seen only on the National Geographic Focus Antarctica series - as Seals readied to mangle for Alpha bragg
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154255
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Now as my fearful hand goes unwittingly up I search the faraway trees for the closest possible answer I know I don't know. The clever waiting beast is looking my way with an intelligent roving eye that says he likes to hit. It doesn't matter. You're worse…
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154264
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Luke was in the gutter, his face in stagnant water littered with cigarette butts, condom wrappers, and green shards of glass from broken beer bottles. A man was kicking him in the face with a boot the size of a U-boat, over and over and over again. Blood
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154230
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But Jeffrey was flabbergasted and couldn’t explain to the officer why he was speeding. All he could manage to get out as an attack of Tourette syndrome hit were nasty, flamboyant obscenities. The Alabama state trooper wasn’t amused.
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1542118
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Flames dance behind glass
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154295
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Now that I am dead, my god will fight your god...
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154200
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Sometimes he could feel so small he believed he could fit through the eye of a needle.
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154211
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The bathing suits are like Christmas dresses.
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1542127
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strung from her window to a tree
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15422012
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I say her- it might be him-/
but from a distance I supply the details I prefer.
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154288
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If I saw a little old man out there, a fellow with a hunched up back, I shouldn't be afraid.
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15421211
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I'm in Joel's front yard when I dodge the third call from my divorce lawyer. I'm here for Joel; I can't seem to show up anywhere unless it's for someone else. We watch his son, Andy, push his bike up the hill. This is the…
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As the other mammals go extinct,/
we can’t presume we are immune//
because of big brains and a history/
of belief in the control of nature.
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154200
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He must have been pleased with his composition, as he repeated and repeated and repeated it. Paul joined in the song. Then the children at neighboring tables joined too, until the song rose into a dining hall chorus.
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154100
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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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154121
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Naked Lady? I know that from somewhere. Then he remembered. That's what they called those old 1930's and 40's Conn saxophones, Naked Ladies. How would Smith know that?
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154164
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She'd still rest her fingers on your back, and her smile still lit the lantern of your soul.
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154199
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People usually take fonts for granted.
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154143
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Write power
like a purring kitten
eyes wide
without an idea of exactly
how small he is.
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1541125
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the memories return like they do every year at this time
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154121
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Back in the sixties, I chanced upon a list of books. That’s right. Sifting a black garbage bin, I found the long lost canon. Seizing the moment, I snatched the list, and cradled it in my palms. I felt proud and patriotic for saving such a noble list f
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154154
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My old buddy Snoop Dogg saunters into the room, and we go through a handshake routine that takes over ten minutes, ending with double-backflips and some brotherly penis swordplay.
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154141
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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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154154
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It’s like drawing with Cesium
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1541108
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Sunday morning beginning with a bang. Accused, found wanting, sentenced.
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He noticed a freckle on the forth toe of her left foot. Her wedding toe. A direct result of one frenzied crowd of melanocytes in the dermis, adjacent to the epidermodermal junction. The fruit of a very subtle orgy.
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