1474 7 6
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In the panic following news of my motorcycle crash, my honey fled the house without coat or wallet, and now, nearly midnight, we don’t even have cab fare home.
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147462
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A year ago, my neighbor was a sexy graduate student in fashion design, sounds perhaps shabby, yet if it is, then we in the Middle West are all shabby. That girl's father graduated from high school with Bob Dylan in Hibbing, not entitling her to a child.
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14741713
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This year we have no need of spring!
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147391
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Naked, we stood in my shower. When she kicked my tool, I noticed she had a toe ring.
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147300
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For the past 6 months our love for each other had been akin to a chess game. We avoided each other’s traps, fortified our defenses, set up gambits of our own, exchanged pieces of our lives, and now it was endgame. Checkmate. Time to move on.
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1473178
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When I was young and self-born in religion my aunts, uninterested in being washed in the Blood of Christ, called me Preacher Boy. I didn't pay them any attention. It was fine by me, I said, if they wanted to sit around and paint their toenails . . .
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147331
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"I have a prehensile tongue," he said matter-of-factly. "I know how to make you feel good." Such confidence, I say. Prove it.We're sitting on the couch, watching a movie, but not paying attention to it. We sit side-by-side, my leaning into him, and his arm is around me,…
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147362
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147322
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Not to sound too ridiculous, but Hurt was giving me the hurt, and it felt good.
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1473128
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she lifted and threw her legs out the open
side front window of the speeding auto
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1473118
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I was sleeping the night of a hurricane party. I awoke to lightning flashes. They lit the undersides of descending clouds, and lit the shadows of scattering dancers. The hurricane must have turned inland.
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147353
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147365
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It's just another night in the old city, perched in the skeletal radio tower with my collection of telescopes
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1473127
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Foolish boy, you chose
your parents poorly-
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147255
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I guess you’re gone now
That’s okay
I guess I can live with my own ghosts
I had no idea
What it meant
But now I do
It meant I was standing
At the end of everything
And did not know it
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147244
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She Waited for the other Shoe to Drop
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147233
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“I honestly can't believe how much you eat, honey.”, Lenora said as I put down the fork after gorging myself on breakfast. Twelve pancakes, four eggs, two cups of coffee, a glass of milk, and half a pound of bacon had passed through my lips this morning. …
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1472107
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147222
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my mouth is open, ready to bite your tiny toes
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147201
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Dear Butterfly, Are you there ? Wherever there is ? Are you there, crossing your feet on top of each other, sipping your coffee while observing the sky from behind those cat-eye glasses of yours ? 3 days, 8 months and 11 years. That's exactly how long since the last time…
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147252
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You stand in the mirror. You see yourself. You stand sideways; your profile is always your best. You tuck in your stomach, you stick out your ass but it's the same. You stand face front. You shiver. The mirror adds weight to your already sagging breasts, the wrinkles…
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147277
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We are/no more than heartbeats on repeat.
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147253
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It was midnight. I was outside the cottage, digging another row of star-shaped holes for the shrubbery.
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147276
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Regime is elected officials ignoring constituents, ignoring protestors, ignoring history
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147211
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Later, your father stared, confused, at the empty spot where the wall paint layers ended in the shape of the old machines. He stopped coming in.
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147242
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I started walking around the Jube like any other sheep, lemming, or penguin: passing plate glass windows, one after another.
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147299
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not every punishment proceeds / without a hitch
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147200
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Like some beautiful yet macabre puppet, she was suspended on strings of wire, painstakingly threaded tubing flowing into her cavities, through her chambers, around her mechanics.
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147233
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A small bar of glycerin soap floated in the sink full of bloody water . . .
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147261
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I was quite alone in this small room with the tarp and the dying fire.
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