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(the vast preponderance of dark matter and dark energy discernible in these latter days begins to suggest just how dark the humor of existence is) . . .
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The unpublished writer remembered the carnage that surrounded his Foxhole in France and decided he was done praying. All around lay the evidence that no one was listening. The drunken pastor stumbled away.
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The figure eight will fall on its side. Become infinity.
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The dowdy woman in fart nailed the vim.
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What was so bad about other religions that their followers were automatically condemned to eternal damnation? The priests were so convincing when they claimed Christ was the only true way.
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172601
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As the four flew beside each other, they shared their stories and got to know one another. Soon they learned from the voice what was happening.
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I avoid weddings like the plague.
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Ug seemed kinda down in the dumps so, uncharacteristically for a male hominid, I asked him why he looked so glum.
“Ug no find nice girl,” he said, poking a stick in the dirt.
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Rosea plays a bohemian plainsong for the cosmonauts among us, while her fuzzy apple hips spit glitter, spin strobes: pink shades of pantyline flicker; lip-licked neon hues scrape strings in B sharp, a gloomy clue.
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Bill decided he hated his neighbors on a Sunday morning in June.
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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.
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you might as well be blind
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You looked like someone I didn't want to know. I guess that's why I got in the car that night. My penchant for self-destruction was aroused by your black nail polish and the lavender circles under your eyes. You looked like someone that could hurt me, yeah, that's why I got…
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It was like watching one of those vintage eighteen-frames-per-second films of someone trying to open a stuck umbrella.
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I don’t want to debate polemics while I’m sweaty and naked. I just want my hair cut.
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I was shooting baskets in the driveway when the Mexican kid delivered the groceries. He drove in fast and loud . . .
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Vera Wang I saw you on Oprah today girl. Oh no no no.
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The heart attack felt like the time Alison stabbed me with knitting needles. It made me want to see her. She was the fun wife, the first of three. I was morbid and full of regret — my drinking had driven them away, no kids in the wake. I decided to visit all of…
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Beneath an opal moon, the open field and wilderness across it look immersed in varying shades of blue. A strong night howler blows across a little girl's face as she walks the field as if in a trance; her whole visage framed against the backdrop of this very act …
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Boys start fires all the time— it's a rite of passage— so when your father gives you the task of setting fire to the family's trash, you don't mind, and when the flames ignite inside the old dishwasher he heaved into the woods behind the house, you…
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In your mouth is the attic studio
Where your father’s brushes lie wet with water
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Our afterlife depends upon//
what interesting shape
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skin cancer
walks along Zuma beach
at noon
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To be honest, I've always wanted to be black
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“There goes that slut Kerri Stanton,” the immense woman behind the counter chuckled to her patron. “Who the hell does she think she is?”
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King's splendid stronghold Pressing down the earth below Broken by the grass
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"Good, it's Link Wray again,"
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Jane says to Roy, “What are you doing, Roy?”“Fuck off, Jane, I'm reading,” says Roy.“Well you could have just said so.”“I did.”“I mean just without—”“Yeah, well fuck off anyway.”“I've had…
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