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This is my secret source of income, you see....
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I was awakened by a disturbing dream. He was no longer with me and I felt afraid. Everything was cloudy, almost blurry. I couldn't see much in front of me, but I knew for sure he wasn't there with me. Then he said the words I feared the most “I don't love you.…
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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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1593105
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moonbeams unrecognized language
steadies my course
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159374
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They were
obviously having
some secret
beach affair.
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1593125
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Beneath their feet bedrock stretched a hundred miles
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159365
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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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No jagged bits of crust were thrust up/
through the prairie’s black gumbo/
to give us cataclysmic mountain views.
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159211
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Barbie wore only her clear pink heels...
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1592126
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forced to submit/
to reasonableness//
and universal healthcare.
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159243
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We decide not to go to the emergency room
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159255
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another way to play with all that is that doesn't involve killing for profit. I believe that, don't you? There is always a much kinder response to the failing dawn of secret night. Dancers know the power of this beautiful all encompassing …
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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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159252
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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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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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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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159289
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Mr. Blumberg and I sat side by side on a small couch in the family room. He was watching a football game on TV.
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159292
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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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In the summer that my mother returned from wherever she had gone after her divorce, she and I moved to a large, old farmhouse high on a hill, far from the town where I had grown up. The farmhouse was over a hundred years old and no one had lived in it for…
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159221
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The story itself is not much longer than a snippet. What is a snippet anyway?
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159241
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threads of Cocoa Krispies
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Like some beautiful yet macabre puppet, she was suspended on strings of wire, painstakingly threaded tubing flowing into her cavities, through her chambers, around her mechanics.
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159233
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A small bar of glycerin soap floated in the sink full of bloody water . . .
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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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159252
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I’ve just moved to New York City and, somehow, Scarlett Johansson is at the same party I’m at.
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159112
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[SOME PEOPLE ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS.]
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159174
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we're not at war / with the world. We have papers.
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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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