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160187
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tumbling for you from afar as close-up. They will rewrite your dancing form like a proper magical spell on all their maddest days, using the branches of cherished trees dipped into the trapped wells of certain hosts of …
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160155
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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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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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160144
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“Gladys Miller!” the dog shouted. “Live a little. TiVo it.”
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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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160097
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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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160000
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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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160087
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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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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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1600118
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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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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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160022
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He began life as we all do, an almost indeterminate blob. Ultrasound sonar plotting his outline on screen. The echo chambers of his beating heart dispelling the ectoplasmic impression of mere ghostly existence. His rudimentary …
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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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1600118
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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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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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159900
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Everybody knew Billy Miller. He had messy hair and crooked teeth that he hid behind a thin-lipped smile. He and his friend Jimmy Rodgers, who everyone called Cock on account of his red hair that stuck up like a comb, were inseparable. They liked to ste
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159953
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We sat in silence, the entire train, the few other passengers in anxious wait to see if I would change my mind. We all flipped pages, glanced up at each other, looked away when noticed.
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Defy the impulse to grow beyond/
your means and the means of the/
place where you lie at night.
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