1658 3 3
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Her body: normal as a body, a baby’s body: skin and eyes.
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165832
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He asked me if I was going to buy Valentine's for the office this year, and I shook my head. We were in the dollar store, February 13, and I could get a box of twenty kids' Valentines with last year's favourite cartoon…
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16571914
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Before she flushes the toilet the world is spinning.
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165776
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Where horses once were tethered grows their grass . . .
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165764
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Zinvushka Zokolovskaya and I first met at the local botanical garden.
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165732
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Each time his eyes closed, he shook off the sleep, whimpered, and opened them wide again. I’d never watched a baby fall asleep before, but I realized at that time that falling asleep could be a scary thing. The world gets fuzzy and starts slipping awa
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165721
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Tell them words are math counting forever four letters of truth
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165755
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if it were a child/ it would be in first grade this year
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16571110
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44 miles out
the gauntlet of Red River pines
cast shadows pointing north.
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16571212
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a poem about things exploding/burning down/scattering for miles.
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165721
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165722
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So it's me and two other girls...
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16572312
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We know them just enough/
to recognize them when we find them.
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165700
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Their faces covered in shadow, smiles so relaxing, a tall woman approached her, gently rubbing her face. Her lips moved with no sound, but Sora subconsciously understood what she said.
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165752
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Now they are sleeping in a poppy field, sun-drenched warm afternoon girls lying on their stomachs and sides, faces in flowers, and flowers blowing, blowing. If this afternoon were every afternoon, the world would be cured.
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1657217
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Once, asked what time it was, M. replied, "Eternity."
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165701
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This time, he didn’t admire the fish for very long. He was close to shore and tossed it up on the rocks. Before the fish could flop its way back to the water, Quentin lobbed a broad stone at its head.
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1657104
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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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1657139
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We mourn/
in perpetuity and are inured
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165765
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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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16562112
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We lie sleepless at night, enraged,/
and finger the keyboard
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165644
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A tough enough signal to read under the best of meteoric circumstances, this is one maybe I'll keep on thinking about. I might be able to make something everlasting out of this crazy shamble for love after all. I no longer…
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165632
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He pours both of us another drink and I take a gulp, even though it seems to be half vodka. My body slows, the alcohol confusing my nervous system. I rest my head on his shoulder. He doesn’t reach out to me. I wonder if this makes me the aggressor, but, a
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165610
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Albert Einstein was probably the genius of our age. Joe Biden is a close second, yet Einstein not only had better hair but a keener knack to think of things that no one else could, or would, or would ever want to, since if they did, their brain would shockingly combust in a…
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165632
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She never saw me pull the wings off live flies or throw wood lice in the fire just to see them shrivel, drown a beetle in a stream of warm pee.
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165620
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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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165643
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“I want you to know that you are being watched,” Ernie said. “I have trained a camera on your work station.”
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165683
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"I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence, memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime." Francis bacon “Feminine …
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Each little token is the world/
as you knew it at each time and place
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"So, what do you do for fun around here? I mean, other than each other?" Carlo's smirk broke into full-fledged laughter; Yuri feigned shock. Iris leaned forward and breathed into Bronte's ear: "We misbehave."
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