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Today I'm feeling fertilized by an egg—
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146100
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The door shuts slowly to something that’s allegedly mine
and it sits there and waits until I come home
just like you.
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1461102
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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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146100
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Can you see the rut? Can you dig your fingers into the flesh?
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1460102
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Saturday morning, and I’m pushing the old truck a little, chasing retreating bands of cloud shadows along a winding hilltop road.
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146065
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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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146084
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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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146075
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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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146088
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-Love is a rushing
of blood
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146020
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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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14601010
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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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146096
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I tell myself I should have known. You were always absence.
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146021
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Ug seemed kinda down in the dumps so, uncharacteristically for a male hominid, I asked him why he looked so glum.
“Ug no find nice girl,” he said, poking a stick in the dirt.
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146043
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“I want you to know that you are being watched,” Ernie said. “I have trained a camera on your work station.”
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146000
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Over the stained fence the spectres flew and that is where the rain was turning colder and colder in the time when the trees had become mostly bare.
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14602011
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The nearsighted world/
puts on its lenses
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146011
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Zorro lived in his mother’s basement until he could get back on his feet.
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We know them just enough/
to recognize them when we find them.
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1460188
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The cloudless sky/
amplifies the incompletion,/
clarifies the imperfections/
of the night’s normalcy-
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146052
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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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145974
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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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1459108
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After his chemotherapy failed, he went water skiing.
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1459215
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I didn’t give her enough skin. The world will always hurt her.
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145932
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“Hi. I’m Rita Bates,” I had said. “Can I sit here?
The boy who introduced himself as Thomas told me I could, so I did, and his friends all introduced themselves in turn. Around the table there was Bev, Ernest, someone whose name started with an F – maybe
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145950
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The dead horse on CNN
was floating there
in the floodwater
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145995
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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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145921
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Allie didn't share that moment with Jim. That moment he spoke about whenever they made new friends as a couple— that moment he planned to recount at their engagement party.
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145931
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"do you know what your problem is when it comes to girls?"
she must mean other than the fact that they're all
completely insane. or at least all the ones i've dated.
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145994
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This guy struts and never walks, and while doing so he reads and sends text messages and emails from his smart phone and so never walks in a straight line.
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145913
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After he got on one knee, and she said, I do. After they watched the televised bombs disappear the city. After everyone fell asleep. After shock and awe, him and her making love…
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