1502 6 3
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—Frank, how is your sex life?
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150174
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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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150100
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“There goes that slut Kerri Stanton,” the immense woman behind the counter chuckled to her patron. “Who the hell does she think she is?”
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150176
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—indistinct and foggy, my eyes lost at sea,
confined to a horizon not close to land.
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150111
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Published in Exquisite CorpseI…
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150121
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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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150184
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(the vast preponderance of dark matter and dark energy discernible in these latter days begins to suggest just how dark the humor of existence is) . . .
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1501126
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forced to submit/
to reasonableness//
and universal healthcare.
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15011612
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She was as beautiful as flowers in a dream
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150195
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My body feels chilly but it's not from the outside temps. It seems to me it's the opposite of a fever.
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150195
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I fear my personal information travels the World Wide Web/
and mad Ukrainians will steal my name and wealth./
I fear the fiscal cliff and raising the ceiling on national debt./
I fear a death by taxes.
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150144
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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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150122
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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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1501198
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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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150141
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threads of Cocoa Krispies
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150143
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Many years ago I visited a nude beach. I undressed at the car and walked with my companions onto a California beach as naked as the day we were born.
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150162
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I took a lover on Ibiza either because he was clean-smelling or because he had a hotel room and there were none to be had.
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150185
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The army was bulldozing grandmother's house.
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150186
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in late fall, Rome, sans wind, sans rancor,
sans sand or rain, sans hate ...
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1501105
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moonbeams unrecognized language
steadies my course
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150132
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...Heroin. It helped them get through the tricks and sucked up their flesh.
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150033
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I can't take it bird by bird because I have neither.
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150074
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They found it naught however as it was lost at metro stops, canceled appointments and in ever dimming light that failed to reflect what was instead of what could have been.
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150033
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Trisha dreamed of being a Playboy Bunny since the days she still had buck-teeth and fried egg boobs. She blu-tacked page threes above her bed-head and had me snap topless Polaroids till they littered the floor. She told me to imagine she had 36DDs and per
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150000
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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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150095
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A spire
that had stood one hundred and forty years
fell in
a single second of the blackest day.
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150021
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...She smells like Mentholadium all the time which is one of them old lady smells. When I get up there, she says, “I’ll scrub the bee jesus out of you little girl,” and by God, I have a purty good bath that day.
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150011
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Zorro lived in his mother’s basement until he could get back on his feet.
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150040
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The way each intersection in a city where you’ve lived a while becomes layered with personal archeology.
The cafe that replaced a liquor store you avoided, and the friend (or lover) you broke up with there,
and the way on the day of the big fire you
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1500114
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The flash of love was real, the life within her was real, and the main thing now was to climb.
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