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the sound of ashes/ being poured in the kitchen
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1656910
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it's time for the cold, antiseptic
cloth to briskly remove the evidence.
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165643
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Shadows from a star
Never too close
Never too far
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165611
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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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165633
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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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165642
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165663
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Another bird hits the large plate glass patio doors as I am sipping my morning coffee.
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165620
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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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165621
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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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165564
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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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165582
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13 rooks on a lifeless tree
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165531
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16551412
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You call your wife. “Do you see what I see?” you ask.
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16551112
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Regrets lined behind him like crossties on a railroad track.
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165441
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In mid dream, mid journey, there's a barrier we must cross, flat and vast like an ocean. We're told the barrier is a monster. To cross the barrier we must maim one of its eyes. There, rising to the surface is half a large…
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165421
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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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165486
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My wife tells me/your dog has vomited/
on the carpet AGAIN!
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165453
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Twenty-two tornadoes tore through Toronto, spiraling steel and stone to the streets where she stood, texting her best friend.
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1654124
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Xanax, A hand gun, And the courage to pull the trigger
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165445
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Lawrence Light had two degrees: business and theology. I liked the clean font he chose for his resume. At the interview, his face was open. His eyes were bright.
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165400
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I'm subconsciously a sucker for guys who are no good for my
self-esteem. Or waistline.
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165431
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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
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165472
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I must have been six years old at that time, but the events of…
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165464
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It's that day in July when you feel really bummed because you can't find your favorite white sleeveless shirt that you wear on the hottest days of the yea
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165333
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two roses her eyes
aqua-blue
no, blue-green
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165361
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You look at people
and despise them all.
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165366
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some answers are enough to make you cry or laugh yourself to death
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165370
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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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1653115
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If I felt like reading a book
then I would read a book
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1653127
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In time, I will forgethow he said "smooshie" for "smoothie"and "eyebrowns" for "eyebrows,"how his upper lip dimpled when he laughedin that uproarious, wild toddler way.How he wheedled to be wrapped and rocked,after a bath, even at age five,his long calves uncovered by…
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