1667 6 3
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Another bird hits the large plate glass patio doors as I am sipping my morning coffee.
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166720
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In traffic I cry bloody murder, but my bloodlust subsides once I'm in Valhalla. Chip Whitehead wants to see me on the 22nd floor before I start my shift. Charlie and the other suits have been looking at me funny since I sent Chip a memo suggesting the recession…
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166610
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“Well” I say. “What do you think about the dilemma of a guy who’s tortured by a history of incest and bondage?”
“Depends” Says Al. “On who was cested and who was bonded.
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166654
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facts are facets are / things in the act // the truth speaks softly // as time saying amber / to the enduring sap // words come and go / like leaves like men // we the tree remain ...
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16661916
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severe snow storm coming. I'm looking for a parking spot and listening to Machito & Charlie Parker
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166677
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I can barely pick out the numbers on the houses
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166651
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"Good, it's Link Wray again,"
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166643
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Shadows from a star
Never too close
Never too far
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166642
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I was raised in a big city in the slow South. I know a little about cross cultural dining and where Delta Blues collides with Sly Stone, Al Green, and Zeppelin. Dirty rice in the Dirty South. Fried chicken, collards, and pintos. Fried velveeta…
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166689
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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
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166672
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I must have been six years old at that time, but the events of…
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166621
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My wife storms into the kitchen with a pink mako shark slung over her shoulder, barking "Dinner!" towards me as I sit on the counter swishing my middle finger through a bowl of sand.
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166500
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Sora collapsed on the wall to Azure’s squeals. She felt her arm lifted up and placed around Azure’s shoulder.
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166587
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graves left or graves lost, into silence death sinks:/it's leaving the living that leaves us such pain.
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166581
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The dowdy woman in fart nailed the vim.
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166586
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Your laugh used to startle the nurses.
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166543
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Unconsciously she shook her head at her own weakness in coming out to see Wayne when things were in shambles at home. Guilt had beat resolve in the cosmic game of rock paper scissors.
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166583
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the sound of ashes/ being poured in the kitchen
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166565
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So few dreams are the doors they seem.
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166575
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If the Titanic rises from the bottom of the sea,
I will meet you on deck, in a deck chair.
Fully dressed for a change.
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16651716
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saw the world was a mess
I did nothing about it, poured myself some apple juice
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166533
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By February, I had decided,
That you'd tear out my throat every morning
if it meant your favorite song would play from my neck.
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166433
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two roses her eyes
aqua-blue
no, blue-green
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166464
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We became The World Famous Shadow Puppet Theater because we thought that the best way to become world famous was to act as though we already were.
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166421
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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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1664105
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He was instantly on her, pulling at her nightgown
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166431
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166463
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A week ago, Lina had felt a pain crack over her right eyebrow. It was there every day, creeping from her ear to the middle of her forehead.
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166451
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Two summers later, the ritual began. Carol left her house at midnight, having served her husband and daughter a heavy dinner that left them caged in their sleep. She was like a thief working in reverse: she rose from bed with her husband’s first snore,
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166462
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I took a lover on Ibiza either because he was clean-smelling or because he had a hotel room and there were none to be had.
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