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Who ever saw an open upright pop bottle on the street?
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Zorro lived in his mother’s basement until he could get back on his feet.
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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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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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Suppose Eve, strolling through the sunlit Garden, had not stumbled on that particular Tree at all, the wily serpent twined in its lower branches?
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The cloudless sky/
amplifies the incompletion,/
clarifies the imperfections/
of the night’s normalcy-
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the beeps, rhythmic,
tell us that you're still with us
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I did do one nice thing for you
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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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it felt fucking awesome at that moment, in that way only little things can feel huge and life affirming
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Culloden County, MS - 1989 All Janine knew was the idiot had a gun. As to why he would ever need one was beyond her. He couldn't look dumber holding it, either. He was too small for it, or at least he looked that way to…
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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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The dead horse on CNN
was floating there
in the floodwater
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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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When he smashed his plate in my lap, the dog hung around, licking my wrist and hoping that he would get some milk, too. With my luck, he'd jump in the pool, getting grass clippings all over the edge. My nails were sharp that day, I had to cut them, and I did while…
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You held my hand when I hit the ground and told me the shakes would start soon.
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not of time, but of all the clocks/
that tick along toward the end/
of all the possibilities.
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There is nothing like your first time, and by that I am referring of course to the first time you purchased a 45.Going to a record store and buying a 45 is a uniquely Boomer experience. Because, alas, there are no more 45s. Or, for that matter, record stores. The…
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Every Monday you brought your Sunday finest to the bus stop...
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The cataclysm of all those photons/
mad to be a part of you
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The nearsighted world/
puts on its lenses
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Even word dancers need rest.
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We know them just enough/
to recognize them when we find them.
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Forty years later he was still her Romeo, she his Juliet.
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And I don't know how long it will be until she comes outside and figures it all out.
Figures me out.
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skin cancer
walks along Zuma beach
at noon
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Dreams will show you a life that might or might not be yours, but you better believe that they've got to serve when you're asked to come up with a story."--Frank Baron, the night he made bail and left town1. First Blood in Dreams Long Ago The…
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After his chemotherapy failed, he went water skiing.
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I didn’t give her enough skin. The world will always hurt her.
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From this distance, he reminded me of a sleazy pink flamingo, waiting for feeding time at the zoo to deepen the timbre of his feathers and hint at the promise of a narcotic aviation before his commune of hens.
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