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Mom forgot her phone!

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Little, Big Dipper

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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.

To Hit a Woman (Lightly)

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Tension slipped from my grip on the dagger as my legs and faith fell apart.

Note to Vera Wang

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Vera Wang I saw you on Oprah today girl. Oh no no no.

SERVICE

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a girl with wolves, dogs and a bear

How it all started

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I heard this story from my grandmother who heard it from her grandmother who heard it from an uncle, who was a monkey.

What you're waiting for.

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I figure maybe I’m mostly alone; they are all running down staircases or falling down fire escapes, some of them naked, some of them with towels, mostly probably naked though.

On Mars

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We brought oxygen with us because we knew, everyone knows, there is no air on Mars. Everyone told us this as they waved goodbye back on Earth. Jay's mom even said, “Goodbye, honey, have a nice time and remember, there's no air on Mars. Are you aware of that?”…

Freedom

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I was seeing the owl lady from time to time when I met Caroline.

Tiger Milk (Part 2)

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"...easier to get milk from a male tiger than mercy from him."

Voyeur

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Morning's first blush, their world in repose. Sated, drained, spent; …

Waffle House Worker Survives Wild Ride on Car Hood

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After three teens took off without paying and he clung to the hood of their car He wasn’t trying to be a hero sandwich or otherwise but climbed onto the hood when they tried to run him over There was some question and dispute over th

Mausoleum

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you might as well be blind

Crazy Eyes

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The kid with a testosterone chip Instead of a brain

Brave New World

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awoke in confusion, fear and hurt never seen before that day a year past

Not Creative

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a poem about things exploding/burning down/scattering for miles.

Larry's "Gonna Die" Parrtayye

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When we started plans for the party, none of us wanted Larry to die, most of all Larry himself. Actually, when we first started plans for the party, Larry wasn’t dying.

bathing suit

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The bathing suits are like Christmas dresses.

Wandering the Streets of Fitzrovia

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I’m deathly afraid of the pub crawls of my ancestors, through Bohemia and Fitzrovia because of the ghosts of alcohol already etched inside my veins and the headlong loss of oxygen

Girlfriend

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As a rule, she calls me whenever she’s waiting for her train or bus. ‘Hiya… How’s life-’ she starts off sweetly. Even though I should know better by now, I can only respond in the same old way. I’ll say: ‘Hi Kate!’. Next, I’ll try to te

The Monolingual’s Regret

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Polylinguists lash me with tongues I cannot conjugate

A Paper that Changes Things

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The dowdy woman in fart nailed the vim.

Prisoners (edited)

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This cell the sole certainty, all else steeped in mystery. Why should we be here?

where horses stood ground

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Where horses once were tethered grows their grass . . .

Milkmen

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I can barely pick out the numbers on the houses

When To Wear Mascara

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it's time for the cold, antiseptic cloth to briskly remove the evidence.

Whoever Said

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Though we came to life as to a school/ We leave without graduating

Midnight Mass

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Mom wraps a bulky-knit scarf around my face and over my mouth. She tightens it into a big knot in back of my collar.

Her

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It's time, more than anything

The True Price of Bed and a Bath

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So it's me and two other girls...