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She said, “I think I’m pregnant,” but I thought that the sidewalk looked cleaner than usual,
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Theresa Esposito woke to the smell of pignoli cookies baking. The sweet scent made her stomach rumble. She was ten-years-old today. And she felt ten. Her hair, her ears, her eyes, her toes — everything felt ten.
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...the daffodils will fling/
their yellow petals, taunting winter
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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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151363
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N-n-never screamscold a cat.
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forced to submit/
to reasonableness//
and universal healthcare.
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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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It was only a dream. No one died, nor were they even harmed. So horrifying!
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—It’s difficult to say, he said. I have mood swings. Women don’t like that. They become upset.
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awoke in confusion, fear and hurt never seen before that day a year past
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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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15131011
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She left knives and hot pots with handles akimbo. Like a guardian angel, he turned them in. Like an ungrateful Eve, she turned them back out.
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Each day, they trot the coiffed/
and painted cadavers across the stage.
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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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Billie Holiday and I want a cup of coffee and they tell us to go fuck ourselves.
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Dear Sir/ Madam I wish to apply for the position you advertised in the Daily Sun. Although my expertise is in self-obliteration and self-worth (or lack of), and my work mainly in disappointment, I do have much experience in failure, which this letter will…
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Today I'm feeling fertilized by an egg—
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The instant you remember
gratitude
with enough focus to spring free its power...
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In traffic I cry bloody murder, but my bloodlust subsides once I'm in Valhalla. Chip Whitehead wants to see me on the 22nd floor before I start my shift. Charlie and the other suits have been looking at me funny since I sent Chip a memo suggesting the recession…
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151355
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there should be a word for it.
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151277
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As spilled on a sandy Corona del Mar beach/both in moonlight and starlight so lovely/and strangely sad as if receding still
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I can't take it bird by bird because I have neither.
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I did do one nice thing for you
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The next week, she sends a small white box in the mail / with tissue paper, a ceramic mold the color of bleached bone—
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We are/no more than heartbeats on repeat.
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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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He was just walking along, making sure that no white, Hispanic, Native American or Asian people were doing anything illegal when he noticed the young black man walking down the street.
He hadn't meant to.
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