1610 9 10
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I wanna make
banana peel poems--
slippery little booby traps
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1610 1 1
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The highway stretches out in front of me, a black ribbon winding into the future; a collapsing probability of possibility connecting me with the past and through it to the future.
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1610 0 0
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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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1610 0 0
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Still as the knife on the counter there still. Like mothballs in a chest. One with clear bags and newspaper clippings and your scarf inside it. The baby girl could put a mothball in her mouth and suck it like a penny. The way too close to a light bulb bur
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1610 1 1
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“Can you adopt if you work for the circus?” I asked her
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1609 8 8
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1609 4 4
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She Waited for the other Shoe to Drop
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1609 0 1
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I have cherished the memory of that meal since and have sought out Indian restaurants all over the world. San later told me that the best Indian food was to be had in London
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1609 0 0
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And it's a tough thing
to become a father,
a contradiction;
guiding a child to avoid the things
that you know about so well.
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1609 8 7
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The first thing I saw was a sandal, but it didn't exactly look priestly. It was golden and glowing, and the foot it was strapped to had red painted nails. The straps wrapped around her ankles, and up her slender leg, tied off in a bow below the knee.
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1609 7 5
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The receipts all fell into the black leather valise he’d retrieved from storage that afternoon, except for the forty-eight cents, which wound up in the right front pocket of his jeans.
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1609 3 1
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"I have a prehensile tongue," he said matter-of-factly. "I know how to make you feel good." Such confidence, I say. Prove it.We're sitting on the couch, watching a movie, but not paying attention to it. We sit side-by-side, my leaning into him, and his arm is around me,…
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1609 2 0
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Vegas is turning out to be my kind of town. Easy money, free booze, and everyone is too overstimulated to realize I’m broadcasting right into their noggins.
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1609 6 2
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1609 3 3
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Things looked way too normal to be normal. The cold, gliding black eyed swans never once straying far from each other's wake, the cute blue jeaned lovers everyone secretly watched carefully picking their trickling way over small odd rocks and…
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1609 8 9
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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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1609 5 4
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My wife broke the news to me. She enjoyed it, too, I'm certain of that. It was a juicy piece of gossip.
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1609 6 3
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—Frank, how is your sex life?
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1608 4 3
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The print is not ideal, it's true.
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1608 7 6
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The note was a lie, multiplied through each member of its potential audience....
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1608 3 3
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I can't take it bird by bird because I have neither.
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1608 8 2
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Marge bought the rug on-line.
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1608 0 0
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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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1608 1 1
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Barbie wore only her clear pink heels...
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1608 18 9
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1608 2 0
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1608 4 0
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"Dennis," she started "exactly what the fuck are you looking at?"
"Your tits" I replied.
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1608 6 5
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With each step, that cold hand steals ever upward.
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1608 2 1
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The Mojave Desert remembers Ron Paul
With tattered billboards
Scraped and clawed by vehement dust
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1608 4 3
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