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saw the world was a mess
I did nothing about it, poured myself some apple juice
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166763
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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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1667128
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fetal position can make a man seem small. harmless. like the child your womb won't carry...
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166789
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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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166762
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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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166743
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166600
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Mayumi could see as far as her eyes could, all the buildings hugged by the trees. Roads stretching outward as if reaching for something far away.
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1666147
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like the dome of an immense lamp
like blades of grass at the sweep of the scythe
like a line of cliffs against a tempestuous tide
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16662111
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The lungs forsake their love of breath. The arms/
resist throwing off the small weight of sheets.
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166686
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Your laugh used to startle the nurses.
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1666105
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He was instantly on her, pulling at her nightgown
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166665
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The clarinet and the accordion are brothers, I see. Big, fat men with curly, klezmer hair.
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166675
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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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166641
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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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166688
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-Love is a rushing
of blood
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166651
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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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1666128
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Trigger warning: casualties of war.
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166600
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There were echoes all around them, their shadows delirious and only existed in short spurts under the breath of the streetlights. They danced as their cigarettes leaked calligraphy across the night sky and she tried to trace it with her finger. He asked her what it said…
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166688
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“I won't live here,” Beth said, waving her hand to indicate the small Southern town in which they were having dinner—the most delicious fried chicken either of them had ever tasted—in a restaurant located in an antebellum mansion. She looked…
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166685
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Marv felt a stirring. Warmth in his gut. "Maybe we should get together," Marv said.
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16651211
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The cataclysm of all those photons/
mad to be a part of you
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166521
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He repeated these six words like a prayer. His only confession.
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166500
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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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1665118
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He liked to take pictures of her, and she liked to pose. It made her horny, she said.
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1665105
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moonbeams unrecognized language
steadies my course
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166565
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Cézanne sags during a moment of paint. There is an umbrella in the room whose surface collects his thoughts. Outside, in the rain, the grass and garden smell strongly of spring. Fruit litters the table. Light through the window writhes in conversation with shape and…
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166476
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In human rights, a man and a woman may marry and bring forth a family. It is a civil right in the U.S. but not a human right (as far as I know) to raise a child singly without the knowledge of the other parent.
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166496
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I held her hand through two divorces, I warned her that gorgeous Geoffrey was homosexual when she was oblivious, and I fed her children when she was off at rehab (four times before it 'took').
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I dream of benzene rings/
and polymer shrouds
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