1437 7 5
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TV and power cord valorized in dust,/
wires and digital guts unimpaired, I’d guess . . .
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143721
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The story itself is not much longer than a snippet. What is a snippet anyway?
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143721
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The Mojave Desert remembers Ron Paul
With tattered billboards
Scraped and clawed by vehement dust
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143700
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"I want more grandchildren to spoil," the woman said. Will took a swig of beer at such moments. Maxine only answered with “someday” and looked over toward her husband. She knew it was his fault, didn’t really know why, but blamed him anyway.
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a girl with wolves, dogs and a bear
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1437118
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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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143711
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“We know you’re in there, motherfucker. Step out, slowly, and we might keep you fit for an open casket funeral."
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143742
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Had this been a film, I’d have seen you at once. Extreme close-up: my finger on the green button that opens the door to the park. Long shot: my leaving my bike at the entrance. Slow shot: my walking down the narrow stone path.
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1436126
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"Every generation is a new generation, isn't it? What's so different about your generation?"
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1436126
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forced to submit/
to reasonableness//
and universal healthcare.
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143687
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The first thing I saw was a sandal, but it didn't exactly look priestly. It was golden and glowing, and the foot it was strapped to had red painted nails. The straps wrapped around her ankles, and up her slender leg, tied off in a bow below the knee.
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143600
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“You did what?”
“Well, the bike is a classic. Getting the proper parts for it just isn’t easy.”
“You’ll end up like smeared all over the road doing things like that, and I’ll have to pick you up again. Geez. Watch out for this branch-”
Bruce held
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14361810
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At some point, indifference//
will swallow the small gasps./
The appalling will become the norm.
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143652
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“You done done sumpin’,” the old man guessed, “Sumpin’ bad...”
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Quimby’s eyes lit up. “Oh, lads, there must be a thousan’ ways to die at sea! I’ve made th’ Atlantic passage a good many time; lemme recount some manners of death I’ve witnessed with mine own eyes.”
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1436122
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There is nothing like your first time, and by that I am referring of course to the first time you purchased a 45.Going to a record store and buying a 45 is a uniquely Boomer experience. Because, alas, there are no more 45s. Or, for that matter, record stores. The…
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143641
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threads of Cocoa Krispies
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143652
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Hissing through the opening, the spirits have no place.
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143600
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Can you see the rut? Can you dig your fingers into the flesh?
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143665
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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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14361112
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Tunnel hobos, all hootched up high, think a sign's all about super powers, mind reading, clairvoyance, dig?
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143592
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The bus heads west on Route 36, toward the next stop – Howell, New Jersey. After driving ten minutes, and after crossing the tracks, the bus gets a flat.
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1435108
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I bit her ear and /
it was burnt toast
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14351411
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I dream of benzene rings/
and polymer shrouds
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143500
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That was the summer that Christine Nelson owned me.
It felt like catching the flu. I had it bad. I was about to turn seven, and it was my first time, and it was bad. A love like that, I don’t know, it’s not a love supreme. It wasn’t completely cru
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143521
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The man was happy, filled with it, the happiest he had ever been. He was so happy that he felt he did not deserve it and he deflated.
A woman with apples for shoulders and an eep for a laugh told him that he did deserve to be happy and the man thought
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143500
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A woman is fishing in the Seine at the far left
of the painting, while time is suspended and light
remains. One man plays a trumpet. A half dozen
people sit or walk under parasols. Couples stroll
and children run or sit or stand beside their
p
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143500
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Jumping from roof to roof, Keiko and Rumiko remained quiet after hearing Mayumi’s story. They saw the shrine ahead but they knew they were going to run out of buildings to stay above.
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his mother brought him to me/ when he was very young/ maybe a few months old,/ born in arizona july.
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