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I keep my love for you in me, /
like the egg of a worm,
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(the vast preponderance of dark matter and dark energy discernible in these latter days begins to suggest just how dark the humor of existence is) . . .
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Alysia tried to focus on what was important, but it was too much to bear. She was ready to dive down when a shot of wind blew past her, causing her and Megumi to lose control over their gliders.
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She stood there with her back to me and her dress around her ankles.
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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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This cell the sole certainty,
all else steeped in mystery.
Why should we be here?
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Shadows from a star
Never too close
Never too far
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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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strung from her window to a tree
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Morning time had come again. Kojo felt the beginning of the day, but couldn't know it yet. Awareness came first: the temperature of the room, the light behind his eyelids, how much of him could feel a draft. Then, before it was taken from him, he recalled the memory of a…
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Another bird hits the large plate glass patio doors as I am sipping my morning coffee.
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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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It was a dark and stormy night.
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An yet we are all inmates...
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169065
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The clarinet and the accordion are brothers, I see. Big, fat men with curly, klezmer hair.
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169010
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In the last test Anna barely managed to stay within the limit, but right now she had problems with her father in law who’s been luring her husband into alcohol, and with her husband who’s been luring the father in law into drugs.
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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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Something was changing.
We could sense it in the circling air. A loss of stillness - and we'd been still for so long.
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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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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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moonbeams unrecognized language
steadies my course
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He gave her cancer. He gave her cancer.
Not what she said. She said her relationship gave her cancer. Her relationship with him. Gave her cancer.
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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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Santa’s stuck/you say? In the chimney of course./The lard-arsed ol’bastard struggling
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I said, “That bird is hungry.”
The sparrow was eying both of us
At our separate outside café tables
As it hopped around looking for crumbs.
Then it would look up at us
Expectantly.
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saw the world was a mess
I did nothing about it, poured myself some apple juice
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Can we survive our Y chromosome?
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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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[TURN-ONS: willingness. TURN-OFFS: rejection.]
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