1629 6 2
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Chubby. Plump. Pudgy. Portly. Bulky. Buxom. Rotund. Ample. Hefty. Corpulent. Zaftig.
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162800
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I have never seen doubt on the face of a Roman general,' he said, ‘but when you looked at me and said “I know”…that was a certainty I'd never encontered. You have crossed the Acheron twice.'
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162800
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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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1628175
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I'm old enough to be her father.
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162843
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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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1628116
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A pinprick breaks the black/
and pins the spin of constellations/
around its still point.
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162831
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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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162875
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I got a sixth of a cow in the freezer
That’s not meant to be just a teaser
I guess all I’m sayin’
Come on home and you’ll be stayin’
Cause I got a sixth of a cow in the freezer
Got a rack and a half of ribs
I ain’t tellin’ you no fibs
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16281211
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The cataclysm of all those photons/
mad to be a part of you
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1628118
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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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1628137
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Can we survive our Y chromosome?
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162880
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162877
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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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162899
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162854
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...listening to the ache of errs our mouths had become.
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162823
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["Mea Culpa" means: I don't care what you think, sorry is when I feel like making you hear me say it.]
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162700
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“There goes that slut Kerri Stanton,” the immense woman behind the counter chuckled to her patron. “Who the hell does she think she is?”
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162700
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162787
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graves left or graves lost, into silence death sinks:/it's leaving the living that leaves us such pain.
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1627122
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There is nothing like your first time, and by that I am referring of course to the first time you purchased a 45.Going to a record store and buying a 45 is a uniquely Boomer experience. Because, alas, there are no more 45s. Or, for that matter, record stores. The…
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162766
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some days are
minotaur shit on your tongue/
smokestacks dumping acid rain on your already thinning hair
your eyelashes pinned in upside down, backward/you give wrong shaving directions to the mirror
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162742
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I feel about the universe/
as Abrahamics are supposed/
to feel about their Yahweh, /their God,
and their Allah:/ I am in fear,
I am in awe, /I am in love.
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162755
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It is said that lovers find lips in the dark through secret brain circuitry.
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162754
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We were wild, medieval magpies,
sweaty and sweet and selfish; and so much more
than we were before I lit that first stick of spice,
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1627127
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Essences of bull and bison,//
stag and horse, illuminate/
the stony underground.
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162721
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He finished the omelet and started in on the short stack. He drowned the cakes in syrup.
-Never can have enough syrup.
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1627128
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Trigger warning: casualties of war.
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162744
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“Gladys Miller!” the dog shouted. “Live a little. TiVo it.”
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162786
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in late fall, Rome, sans wind, sans rancor,
sans sand or rain, sans hate ...
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1627125
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Beneath their feet bedrock stretched a hundred miles
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