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I It's been there all week, Nose tucked into tail Comfort found between impact and asphalt II I'm still here logged out, still here Had it with the billboards the check engine light milemarkers... Just…
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171165
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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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It's important to make a sure sound. It's not impossible you know. It's just funny I suppose, like being in a dream of another dream. All these things could be mashed and tumbled together to make us one big clay hero, someone…
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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 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.
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He first saw her stepping off a water taxi by the Long Docks in the rain at night, her right arm atrophied from some early childhood disease, dangling like an apology, her other holding a cigarette. Her wet black hair hung past her shoulders and her eyes
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I was seeing the owl lady from time to time when I met Caroline.
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She was as beautiful as flowers in a dream
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awfully evil decisions upstairs in your head that could come back to haunt you in your later years;I'm here to report your zooming about hair isn't really one of them. You have found the infernal wheel works in all four directions at once. Good for you.…
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170912
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An yet we are all inmates...
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170965
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So few dreams are the doors they seem.
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it's time for the cold, antiseptic
cloth to briskly remove the evidence.
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Little stuff at first: mistaking their dog for a cat, attempting to start the car with a bar of soap, or using a newspaper to dry the dishes. Lately, he’d been slipping: calling her by his mother’s name during sex, berating his boss for lackluster profit
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Warning: Open and read before making any dumb-ass New Year's resolutions.
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Trigger warning: casualties of war.
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“Gladys Miller!” the dog shouted. “Live a little. TiVo it.”
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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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I was ashamed of my conscience.
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170800
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Her fever spreads through lines of a plaid mini, over burnt milk, darkened to yellow. Fingers explore fabric folds up and into the lost dimensions of logic.
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170843
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I'd never seen a dead person before, let alone one that was living just
seconds earlier.
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170874
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There is a rock somewhere with the truth of the sky in it, the glitter of otherworldly charms that falsify the ugliness of the literal.
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You can tend to recognise the difference between a good and mediocre mind by observing how each reacts to a misfired original idea.The mediocre mind will praise the merely meretricious, but ignore the more interesting bad art. The higher mind will value the misfired…
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170886
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Your laugh used to startle the nurses.
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170845
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The last time Cyrus rode in a train’s passenger car, he came home a dead man.
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170831
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The TV projects from an insect arm. It has the face of my ex-husband, smiling and void. I like to set small fires and inhale them.
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"...innocent butterflies of pollution
trapped and entangled,"
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A proper study of human history should
lead the student to an inescapable desire
to commit suicide
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white-gray mounds persist
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