1601 5 5
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awoke in confusion, fear and hurt never seen before that day a year past
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160131
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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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160186
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My wife tells me/your dog has vomited/
on the carpet AGAIN!
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160111
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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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160154
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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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160193
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“You have no idea what your lives will be like if you can get out of the ‘hood. You could be driving Volvos, eating Tuscan cuisine, getting MacArthur ‘genius’ grants!”
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1601128
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160164
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It's that day in July when you feel really bummed because you can't find your favorite white sleeveless shirt that you wear on the hottest days of the yea
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160074
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I wonder how many crumbs
he can drop to make a cookie,
whole, so I can relax a little
and throw out the self help books
about how I'm not right in
the motherfucking head,
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160020
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I was ashamed of my conscience.
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160086
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remembering Cahokia, a place we rent near the water's edge, for we dare not enter
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160031
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If this is trouble, please call someone else.
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160012
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An yet we are all inmates...
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160041
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A heart which is alive despite everything in the world that wants to deaden it.
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16001811
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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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1600198
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A proper study of human history should
lead the student to an inescapable desire
to commit suicide
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1600127
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Essences of bull and bison,//
stag and horse, illuminate/
the stony underground.
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160075
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He plucks the feathers and winds thread to simulate an insect’s torso.
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160000
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In order to be a catalyst for catharsis — which is just a fancy way of saying agent of change — you have to be willing to condition yourself into something partially inhuman. Only something on the very outskirts of humanity…
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160044
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“Gladys Miller!” the dog shouted. “Live a little. TiVo it.”
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159988
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It is the first day of summer, a blue-green afternoon, and we sit beneath the English oak, Quercus robur. Everything has at least two names. It is the first day of summer, or the last day of something else.
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159997
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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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159900
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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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159987
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It doesn't take a genius to figure how he sank, in the drink, like Jeff Buckley. Like a stone.
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159942
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How hard it is to pretend to be someone else. Alone, together, in the silence... I thought about how you must really like me to act quite like that. I wanted to hold your hand and read the unsent love letters.
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1599118
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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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1599128
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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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159910
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Floating along the ebbs of the ocean,toward the horizon, where time has no say,an end that will never be reached.
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1599118
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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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1598127
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In time, I will forgethow he said "smooshie" for "smoothie"and "eyebrowns" for "eyebrows,"how his upper lip dimpled when he laughedin that uproarious, wild toddler way.How he wheedled to be wrapped and rocked,after a bath, even at age five,his long calves uncovered by…
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