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He'd hung above her head for months.
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They acquire him in a bar that is famous for its shipwrecks.
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I say her- it might be him-/
but from a distance I supply the details I prefer.
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Sometimes one person's shelter is another person's storm.
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[CAUTION: READING THIS STORY COULD CAUSE IRREPARABLE "CULTURE SHOCK" AND IS NOT ADVISED FOR OLD FOLKS, PREGNANT WOMEN, OR THOSE WITH "MONSTROUS, FRAGILE EGOS"!]
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He sees how he could release the duck, imagines it winging low over the water to where the others have made it safely.
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I might wish I was anything
including some dust on the shelf
where maybe I might blow away
unseen like the coming of rust
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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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Fat robins are chirping –
loudly – at 4 a.m.
They’re trying to delude
the worms into thinking it’s
dawn already
The worms get up underground
They’re grumpy, they
bump into things
They come up to the surface
and Wham! That
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The ocean smelled like decomposed plant life and clinically despicable vagina, but I still spoke of its power and my fear of it in moonlit clichés and she still listened.
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My father's cousin is Salem the Dead.
Famed, an infant Lazarus of Libya,
he was brought lifeless from the womb,
yet awoke to the chill of a mortuary slab.
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"We gotta get out of here", you said
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My little friend is no bigger than a minute. An even five feet tall, if that.
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THE man in the tent with the stick points to the chart on the wall and says to us all: the stats point to the end of the war by the end of the fall. A just war, not just oil. Just then Allah's shadow comes over the scene. He's here to stiffen his troops with some …
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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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I was hope, and
you were what I can only call
consolation, as day after day you
remained a grief in my throat.
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And now, the weather. The Cloud Wranglers have roped three solid clouds this morning, preventing the clouds from raining iron bars onto Human Brain Storage Center #17.
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...the daffodils will fling/
their yellow petals, taunting winter
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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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It's just another night in the old city, perched in the skeletal radio tower with my collection of telescopes
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"As the thing lurches upright, I can see now that it is an old woman with snake eyes… a dead old woman with snake eyes and peeling flesh. She is putrid and maggoty. She is coming right at us. She is my mother."
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I'm a jogger of these parts, but I've yet to discover a dead body, or even dead body parts, or worse yet, discover that my parts will be discovered by some unfortunate jogger.
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I hold them to the light...
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Momma takes us to the candle store next door where everything smells sweet
as she opens, closes glass lids, lets us lean our faces close, smell pumpkin, lavender,
trees...
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"One-upmanship" is a strategy for defeating an opponent somewhat unfairly without actually cheating.
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The rocket shone in the distance. Cape Canaveral had never looked so pretty.
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Charles the Bold is holding a pen.
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His wife had just come from the gynecologist and was toying with her French fries.
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