1478 5 2
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“You done done sumpin’,” the old man guessed, “Sumpin’ bad...”
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147881
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The thing Bentley remembered most about her was she had no body odor. None.
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147833
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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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14782311
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147800
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I had enough judgment, anger and vengefulness from the people around me in the steel town of Pueblo, Colorado, where I was growing up. I didn’t need more from my God.
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147854
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147833
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Her body: normal as a body, a baby’s body: skin and eyes.
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14781910
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Falling//
is something that comes quite naturally/
to puffed up things. Like the soufflé
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147832
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Harold Smithe awoke that Tuesday morning precisely at 6 am. He did this every day for as long as he could remember. Even on the weekends when his schedule varied. Well, varied slightly. He lay in bed trying to wake up and mulled over the things he needed to accomplish for…
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147864
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It was a lover’s dark. They had been talking for hours when daylight lost interest and had gone elsewhere for sport.
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147711
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A procession of our somber youth—
stoned and stunned and
broken beyond repair—viewed
the boy carved of putty.
The mortician painted him
stuffed him, presented him
to us, the semi-living.
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147755
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Now as my fearful hand goes unwittingly up I search the faraway trees for the closest possible answer I know I don't know. The clever waiting beast is looking my way with an intelligent roving eye that says he likes to hit. It doesn't matter. You're worse…
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147700
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“Would you look at that one!” my father said.
“Who did she know?” my mother asked.
“Who did she blow?” my father said loudly, and burst out laughing. I laughed too, although I didn't know why.
My mother shot him one
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147784
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We brought oxygen with us because we knew, everyone knows, there is no air on Mars. Everyone told us this as they waved goodbye back on Earth. Jay's mom even said, “Goodbye, honey, have a nice time and remember, there's no air on Mars. Are you aware of that?”…
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147732
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147795
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A spire
that had stood one hundred and forty years
fell in
a single second of the blackest day.
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1477154
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This cell the sole certainty,
all else steeped in mystery.
Why should we be here?
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147753
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Sometime in the late 60s when I was thirteen I had this paper route for the San Mateo Times.
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1477118
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None of this is real, he says, and the path slopes down to a house that is possibly haunted. One always looks in such windows, one cannot not look at the predictable detritus of another's failure, a queer satisfaction, a fairy's dust. But no, not real, none of it. And…
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1477128
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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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14771010
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147721
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He repeated these six words like a prayer. His only confession.
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147787
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I was at Mike's place when the call came. My brother sounded so accusing that I wanted to punch him in the face. But he was way upstate. "Dad died today," he said, as if I could have somehow known or prevented it. It was sudden. A heart attack. He was…
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147777
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You've been given some really cruel thoughts that are not your own.You've been given some really stupid sets of rules which are impossibleto follow. You can learn to manage for yourself. Remember who youwere before they told you who you were. You've been trainedsince birth…
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1477109
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What grabbed the mind when you heard about it was the way he did it.
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147786
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Our afterlife depends upon//
what interesting shape
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147774
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They were
obviously having
some secret
beach affair.
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147644
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A tough enough signal to read under the best of meteoric circumstances, this is one maybe I'll keep on thinking about. I might be able to make something everlasting out of this crazy price for love after all. I no longer…
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147655
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beat them with fists and purses.
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14761411
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I dream of benzene rings/
and polymer shrouds
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