1507 0 0
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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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1507 7 6
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In the panic following news of my motorcycle crash, my honey fled the house without coat or wallet, and now, nearly midnight, we don’t even have cab fare home.
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1506 3 3
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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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1506 0 0
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"Something happens in a magical, soulful part of the heart...and you see YOU. You see yourself."
"I can't look at myself."
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1506 9 5
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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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1506 3 1
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Fat robins are chirping –
loudly – at 4 a.m.
They’re trying to delude
the worms into thinking it’s
dawn already
The worms get up underground
They’re grumpy, they
bump into things
They come up to the surface
and Wham! That
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1506 1 1
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Roanne hungered. Memory had ruled her forever. Shards really, edged like machetes: daddy, whose fingers had eyes in the dark. Momma, ensconced in the shadows. Inside the church, those pairs of short…
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1506 6 6
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some days are
minotaur shit on your tongue/
smokestacks dumping acid rain on your already thinning hair
your eyelashes pinned in upside down, backward/you give wrong shaving directions to the mirror
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1506 4 2
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Charles the Bold is holding a pen.
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1506 20 11
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The nearsighted world/
puts on its lenses
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1506 1 1
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Zorro lived in his mother’s basement until he could get back on his feet.
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1506 7 3
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How to capture in word, in song, the fleeting moments of our loveYou were hereAnd now you're goneEven as I used to lie next to you,bathed in the care and concern that emanated from your warm black brown eyes,I knew there would be that day, that you were no moreDestined for…
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1506 4 1
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threads of Cocoa Krispies
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1506 13 12
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Forty years later he was still her Romeo, she his Juliet.
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1506 6 2
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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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1506 8 5
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The army was bulldozing grandmother's house.
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1505 6 5
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His looks were polished like his shoes, his hair as black. No one would have guessed he made his living as a thief.
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1505 7 4
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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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1505 1 1
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Margie sprayed the gift with her most expensive perfume and tucked it into her sweater’s front pocket. This way she could hold it close to her on the subway, so no one would see the pretty wrapping and try to snatch it from her
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1505 3 2
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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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1505 16 12
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She was as beautiful as flowers in a dream
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1505 10 9
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Doofus
National Puppet Radio
Total Bogascity
Sex Cowards
Mein Kampfire
Boner
Hyperventilate
Sewer Video Rats
Psychic Umbrella
Fire Your Psychic!
Tender Brisket
Megatrouser
Puzzlement
University Housecoats
Fuchsia
Big Ass Dawn
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1505 9 5
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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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1505 8 4
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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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1505 4 5
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The last time Cyrus rode in a train’s passenger car, he came home a dead man.
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1505 2 0
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With a roar and short burst of flame, the dragon awoke, startled.
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1505 23 11
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Every Monday you brought your Sunday finest to the bus stop...
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1505 6 4
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Harpo was there with his wife. Harpo’s girlfriend came up behind the couch where I was sitting, and I ran my hand up her leg underneath her dress.
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1504 24 13
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I would fly drones with hydrochloric acid sprays/
over their squadrons and watch the disfigurement/
begin. I love disfigurement...
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1504 13 11
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I stomped up the steps clearing my shoes of snow. I was wearing my Rooskie fur hat with the ear flaps, and I kept it on when I went inside.
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