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moonbeams unrecognized language
steadies my course
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They were
obviously having
some secret
beach affair.
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Going to the candy store at night in the section of town called Kalliope. Riding bike, trying to get there before it closed at ten. Getting candy at that little store with the glass containers and the rows and rows of candy. Getting milk there…
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159391
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Naked, we stood in my shower. When she kicked my tool, I noticed she had a toe ring.
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159343
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Write power
like a purring kitten
eyes wide
without an idea of exactly
how small he is.
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159300
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“Hello, Cheryl” the voice on the other end of the phone replied. It was strong but raspy, yet quiet and controlled. The fellow sounded like he had a frog in his throat.
“How do you know my name?” she asked.
“I know a lot of things about y
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159311
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Barbie wore only her clear pink heels...
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forced to submit/
to reasonableness//
and universal healthcare.
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159398
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She wonders if he will do the dishes. He said that he would, but that doesn’t mean anything. He said he would do them last week, said he would save money, said he would come home last night. He didn’t do any of those things, either.
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159343
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We decide not to go to the emergency room
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159310
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I laughed maniacally in my head at the thought, but I kept picking at it all the same, the bunnies had plans for us.
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159332
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it felt fucking awesome at that moment, in that way only little things can feel huge and life affirming
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159352
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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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159300
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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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The old lady from next door had been really quiet for the last few days.
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159322
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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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159388
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His mother was a ballerina.
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159300
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Tadd Dameron once described himself as “the most misplaced musician in the business,” and one needn’t call the missing persons bureau to determine that he may have been right.
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1593910
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I wanna make
banana peel poems--
slippery little booby traps
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159300
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At 7:30 that evening my brother knocked on Parker's front door. When I went to let him in, sweat was running off Darrell's head like he'd been hit by a water balloon. The air was absolutely unmoving, and there was the smell of tar from the asphalt in th
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159333
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A small bar of glycerin soap floated in the sink full of bloody water . . .
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159322
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Just as one thing I say is “Don’t worry about me,” one thing I think is that you love somebody by living with them...
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159300
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You’re never really asleep. I am never awake. But as the darkness fades, I read. Your body tells my story.
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No jagged bits of crust were thrust up/
through the prairie’s black gumbo/
to give us cataclysmic mountain views.
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1592108
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I bit her ear and /
it was burnt toast
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159263
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My poems have appeared in four different publications; three have died shortly after they ran my stuff. Coincidence, or something more sinister?
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159200
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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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You compare the brightly-colored wires sprouting from the bandage wrapped around your stepson's head to a bouquet of flowers. The tech sits in a chair next to Brett's hospital bed and holds up line drawings of common objects: cats, boats, skyscrapers,…
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