1181 8 6
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...the scream and the face...
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118022
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There's a large tunnel that runs under my house. I can only estimate but it's not deep below the ground and that's what worries me.
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118022
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I'm living where I've always lived, in Georgia.
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11801210
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118020
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The boy grew frightened when his grainy wooden skin began to melt, every fiber humming and softening.
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118031
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He wiped it with a damp cloth. He set it in a glazed clay pot next to the sofa and admired its scrawny handsomeness.
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118033
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I contemplate the words that did not make it; the lost ones. The words deprived of their moment in the sun. These words. These words that are not part of the story.
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118077
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Suddenly everything is delaminating
People are popping right off
the surface of humanity
I am coming loose from my previous lives
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118022
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Beautiful boy! I am doomed / to have attended your presence; / time consumes us, but you / have changed so little...
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118042
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eleven seconds of infamy / brought to you by Glenfidditch /who the hell filmed this?
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118085
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When Frank entered Michiko’s apartment, Michiko was not there.
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118011
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President Kennedy’s national physical fitness program tried to reverse the incoming tide of obesity, but for many it was too late.
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118076
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I keep attempting to start a correspondence with people / but they end up not being interested in me, / either that or I scare them away / because I usually begin with: / “Well, my favorite philosopher is Hegel..."
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118031
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It's always dark. You catch me by the wrist just as the ferris wheel starts up again and pull my shoulder out of its socket towards you. I resist, feigning hatred and pain, but I don't feel anything except your hand on my arm hot and scalding lighting my skin, a…
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118065
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118022
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I have reasons to believe she’s been stealing.“
“Stealing what?”
“Steaks.”
“Steaks?”
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118054
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118067
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Just take the mountain curves
as tightly to the inside and
as fast as surface conditions permit
and the road’s edge
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118001
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118077
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118021
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He had expected more -- at least his grandfather's classic Packard touring car.
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118000
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Harris Tobiasharristob@gmail.comThe Alarm A terrible clanging in the middle of the night roused me from my bed. I put on some clothes and hurried into the street there to mingle with my bleary eyed neighbors. At first we thought it was a fire but there was…
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11801510
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The Plaza had a chess-board floor, green wood booths, and the lights stayed up. I might be combining a memory of Fitzie's in Binghamton. The Plaza felt like a preppy soda fountain with beer.
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1180188
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Jesus is for sale. But he’s heavy.
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118000
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Two women grab a table near a window in a coffee shop. Outside, the sky is the color of dulled aluminum. It is early spring and pollen assaults the air with a tint of sulfur.
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118063
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The Assistant is lost again in a grid city. Again she feels disconnected from the world. Where she is the sound has been switched off.
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1180114
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Sunset swoony love waves
crash over me and I forget why
I didn’t say yes sooner
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1179134
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tell me about the time you lived in Carolina, and what my smile does
for you.
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1179108
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After his chemotherapy failed, he went water skiing.
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117933
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That’s true, you know, what they said about the drummer and spontaneous combustion.
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