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my mouth is open, ready to bite your tiny toes
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If I should wake/
before I die,/
just shoot me through/
the one good eye.
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forced to submit/
to reasonableness//
and universal healthcare.
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149420
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A shadowless torpedo shaped form plummeted from the grey, overcast skies upon the many unsuspecting. No remote pilot thousands of miles away guided this particular descent.
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149484
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It’s just that—well, I don’t know how to put this—
With a Dadaist poet a non-affair is the height of erotic bliss.
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149433
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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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149475
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If the Titanic rises from the bottom of the sea,
I will meet you on deck, in a deck chair.
Fully dressed for a change.
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149488
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-Love is a rushing
of blood
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149476
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Regime is elected officials ignoring constituents, ignoring protestors, ignoring history
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149420
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The rocket shone in the distance. Cape Canaveral had never looked so pretty.
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1494128
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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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149420
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[B]y fleeing the city to live on the outskirts of nowhere—a place so far off the beaten path that even Duras’s aging Mr. Andesmas would have felt isolated—I was of course trying to escape from none other than myself.
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1494148
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Yes, he'll be quiet. Very quiet. He rocks himself, the ark, suddenly imagining water underneath him, over head, all around. Water, water, water—
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149400
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"Look at the grime on those curtains. Not fit for an Emperor. Pull them down. Put up fresh new ones. Not a spot."
"Oh! Look at this throne. All uneven legs. The gems are not shining. The gold looks dull. Fix it, fix it, fix it!"
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149422
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Hello floaty word man / suspended in smoke / chortling coughing with collapsing colon / spraying sounds into the day / making it night and ending the line
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moonbeams unrecognized language
steadies my course
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a mere forty years/and maybe you become twelve,/maybe sixty-three.
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149321
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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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149343
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I'd never seen a dead person before, let alone one that was living just
seconds earlier.
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149321
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Sure my man. Show me the token I’ll show you the slice.
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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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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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He just had to tell somebody. Anybody.
So he called up his publisher, L., who agreed to meet him at Oliveira’s for a drink. It only took about ten minutes to walk there from his big duplex in the Elmwood, where he was still living with his wife among
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149354
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an EZ How to Guide in 50 simple steps
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149366
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The Misses Moses by Brad Watson from Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives The Moses sisters lived together, alone, in the fine old brick house near downtown where they…
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149375
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...the daffodils will fling/
their yellow petals, taunting winter
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149300
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The door shuts slowly to something that’s allegedly mine
and it sits there and waits until I come home
just like you.
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She didn’t think of herself as an undesirable, no, she didn’t, but did find herself cowering in face of the presumed judgment of those around her. They had more money, more clout, more everything.
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