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Once upon a time there was a Vietnamese restaurant. And then there were two, and four, and eight...
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“They say she lives alone out there.” “What, like out in the woods?” “Not like way back in a cabin or anything, but in a little house out there off the road. I'm not even sure she has a car.” “What, does she…
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She drinks a chocolate martini. I fold myself up and slide into her pocket.
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Nothing about it//
is attractive- its color, it’s design,/
it’s market value. I leave it be and watch
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What's that snitch doin' here?
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she lifted and threw her legs out the open
side front window of the speeding auto
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I asked him where he hurt and he said everywhere.
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Xanax, A hand gun, And the courage to pull the trigger
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Soon enough, October’s ragged/
lawn will hide its deficiencies//
under withered leaves of oak,
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“You have no idea what your lives will be like if you can get out of the ‘hood. You could be driving Volvos, eating Tuscan cuisine, getting MacArthur ‘genius’ grants!”
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A section of the baseball field that curved inward was filled with clear water. Birds were dipping their feet and the tips of their wings in. The sun set them apart enhancing the ice-sharp oblivion in their eyes. I swore I heard them say "Marry me.
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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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“I honestly can't believe how much you eat, honey.”, Lenora said as I put down the fork after gorging myself on breakfast. Twelve pancakes, four eggs, two cups of coffee, a glass of milk, and half a pound of bacon had passed through my lips this morning. …
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the sound of ashes/ being poured in the kitchen
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"Good, it's Link Wray again,"
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Shadows from a star
Never too close
Never too far
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"...innocent butterflies of pollution
trapped and entangled,"
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1. The sparrows' heads revolve slowly when you press the red button, but the boxing glove attachments don't work.2. A weird weaving of voices, unmusical harmony. One phrase punctures the texture: “The empty slot.”3. Poems are processed into more useful verbal…
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You were gone, long gone, and I could no longer smell your scent as I walked through the empty house. I couldn't bring myself to unpack the boxes, and they lurked like a forest of overgrown drab Legos.
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At 7:30 that evening my brother knocked on Parker's front door. When I went to let him in, sweat was running off Darrell's head like he'd been hit by a water balloon. The air was absolutely unmoving, and there was the smell of tar from the asphalt in th
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I blame the fucking mosquito net.
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“Well, aren’t you the cutest thing?”
Shelly looked around for the source of the line and one of the better looking bar flies met her gaze. He wore a faded t-shirt with a swoosh graphic that read ‘Just Do Me‘. True to its mystical nature, her indefatigabl
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"Shit," said the Charge Nurse. "Not again."
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"For several days thinking they had found a dead man’s boot beside the highway..."
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Everyone hoped to be assigned somewhere they could just drop in on their way home for Memorial Day weekend. Someone said, Blake, you’re single. You hate your family, don’t you?
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The clarinet and the accordion are brothers, I see. Big, fat men with curly, klezmer hair.
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I am reintroducing myself.
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saw the world was a mess
I did nothing about it, poured myself some apple juice
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I’ll tell you what’s wrong
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