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166765
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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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166785
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Marv felt a stirring. Warmth in his gut. "Maybe we should get together," Marv said.
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166666
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some answers are enough to make you cry or laugh yourself to death
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166676
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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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166645
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Paulette lived on the east side on Paulette Avenue. Mama dropped me off when we wanted to play Barbies. Her neighborhood was a little green lily pad in a swamp of blight and disrepair. A ghetto moat ringed around those three fancy blocks like a first line of defense,…
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166696
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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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166600
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...the fatal bleeding-out of the love receptors. They call it “Juliet's Tears.”
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16661811
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For a few/
vivid weeks, deciduous shrubs and trees/
will seem to glow like flames and embers
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166622
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...you should pick a VERY OLD millionaire. Very old, and NOT VERY WELL...
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1666124
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Xanax, A hand gun, And the courage to pull the trigger
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166621
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He repeated these six words like a prayer. His only confession.
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1666118
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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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1666105
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moonbeams unrecognized language
steadies my course
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16661112
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Regrets lined behind him like crossties on a railroad track.
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166654
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Bill decided he hated his neighbors on a Sunday morning in June.
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166586
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remembering Cahokia, a place we rent near the water's edge, for we dare not enter
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1665109
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Polylinguists lash me
with tongues I cannot conjugate
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16651411
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I dream of benzene rings/
and polymer shrouds
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1665116
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A pinprick breaks the black/
and pins the spin of constellations/
around its still point.
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166532
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“Hi. I’m Rita Bates,” I had said. “Can I sit here?
The boy who introduced himself as Thomas told me I could, so I did, and his friends all introduced themselves in turn. Around the table there was Bev, Ernest, someone whose name started with an F – maybe
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166500
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"You've fallen out of love with me, is that it? That you'll leave me for another girl, who has bigger boobs and fucks you better than I do."
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166521
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You were gone, long gone, and I could no longer smell your scent as I walked through the empty house. I couldn't bring myself to unpack the boxes, and they lurked like a forest of overgrown drab Legos.
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166575
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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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1665119
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skin cancer
walks along Zuma beach
at noon
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16651211
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166453
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All I wanted to know was: Am I coming close? You could have given me a clue. How was I to know how deep the scar ran? I always thought scars were superficial, but I was young, and willing – what did I know?
What would they have done if they had come
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166453
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She worked the research desk. Like most ladies before computers and cell-phones she lead a quiet conservative life. She wore dresses, spent time with family and friends...Emma also had been stricken as a child
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166497
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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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There was a small slanted hole through the edge of the door, and another one in the door frame. She pushed the door closed to check. The holes matched up.
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