1508 8 2
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13 rooks on a lifeless tree
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150894
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don't look at me honey, I fell on the table,
my hair is on fire, my heart is unstable
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150886
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Your laugh used to startle the nurses.
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150820
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No matter how you do it, forgetting something doesn’t mean as much once you’ve forgotten.
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150800
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"You've fallen out of love with me, is that it? That you'll leave me for another girl, who has bigger boobs and fucks you better than I do."
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15081010
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My lipline's retreated since Tuesday. I'll toss those Hazel Bishop reds, (lipstick on shriveled lips rattles men, scares little children) skip Woolworth's cosmetics counter, save backaching, ankleswelling pondering of powders, rouges, …
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150844
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Kick your employer in the ass. Emotions are strange experiments in honesty.
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150891
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Literary agents, also editors,
But most assuredly not my creditors,
Someday they won’t mean jack to me—
The people who won’t get back to me.
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150851
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And suddenly, I have this crazy impulse, so crazy and so puzzling I do not possess enough vocabulary and grammar skills to describe what is invisible and what is visible about it. The reader must excuse me and be attentive.
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150854
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A Texas man was recently arrested for failing to return a GED study guide to his local public library. He'd kept it out for three years. This is the kind of news story that brings joy to a librarian's heart.The library where I work just installed a…
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150800
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I'm subconsciously a sucker for guys who are no good for my
self-esteem. Or waistline.
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150871
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My mother was Irish as Paddy's pig. So all her family. Lovely people they were. Also, seldom seen among the Folk; stone cold sober. My father's family; Bavarian German. Bavaria's the wrong side of the German tracks. Frankfort people laugh at Bavarians as people in…
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1508104
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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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1508910
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For instance, my sister's husband. If I say brown socks, yellow boxer shorts, fishnet undershirt. If I say plastic bag and two tepid beers. And a voice that glides to falsetto when he: you're a tad too obscene for my taste, Julia, while he tries to light the filter end of…
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1507115
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If I felt like reading a book
then I would read a book
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1507118
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"I remember thinking, 'Good.'
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150764
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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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150700
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“Do we really want to treat her? Is she even really sick, or does she live in a country as real as ours, but one we can never visit?”
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150783
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the sound of ashes/ being poured in the kitchen
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1507148
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...painted by my mother with meticulous attention...
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150720
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Vegas is turning out to be my kind of town. Easy money, free booze, and everyone is too overstimulated to realize I’m broadcasting right into their noggins.
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150751
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Some things are meant to be repeated
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150780
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1507108
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Sunday morning beginning with a bang. Accused, found wanting, sentenced.
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150731
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Every damned time we came back to Richland County, I told JuneBug to just do whatever she had to do but to leave me and Skeeter out of it. And every goddamned time, we ended up somewhere like this, the two sisters hook-armed and conspiratorial, and Skeete
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1507117
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No bustling inside
No extruded amber
Wings onyx straight jackets
A low hum of displeasure.
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150789
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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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1507139
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We mourn/
in perpetuity and are inured
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15072012
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Our ironies don’t make us happy
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150600
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I have never seen doubt on the face of a Roman general,' he said, ‘but when you looked at me and said “I know”…that was a certainty I'd never encontered. You have crossed the Acheron twice.'
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