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156774
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I break your flesh
and make music
on the harp of your bones.
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1567107
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I wander toward the midnight dock
a neon sine curve stabs my eyes
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156743
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The Rapture comes and goes unannounced in carbonated soda bubbles spicing the air.
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1566104
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The next day I can’t recall at all, a waste, like the flash of twenty years of my life, faces that pass you like comets in some erogenous unnamed zone of night, but they got me in some isolation room with my wrists in leather restraints.
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156696
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It hangs unspoken in the sadness he pushes through his harmonica, while his hands work the old, beat-up guitar that tries to be a Gibson for his fingertips.
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156622
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" I have no idea what's goin on out here, and I'm gonna find out one way or another."
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156632
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I cut myself. Often. The bloodslice like thin lips parted/in prayer.
life’s color drained to ashen/as the old world spins, pirouettes/like a circus dog on the back/of a galloping horse.
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15661815
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When I first met Luther he was sitting on the sidewalk, his back pushed up against a vacant storefront wall, thumbing through the “help wanted” section of a few-days-old copy of our local paper and I was moved to offer him a couple of dollars for which he said,…
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156697
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in the much more terrorizing display/
of male pattern stupidity//
as seen so often on TV/
in the House and at Fox News.
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156610
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It was the middle of May when I found out my teacher was screwing my mother.
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156694
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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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1566117
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I saw it coming from five feet
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156600
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Bobby took one out and looked at the date. "July 1965. Does that mean anything to you, Ma? Carla, T.J.?" Bobby handed the paper to my mother. "Why don't you spread it out on the counter to see if you can find something that he might have wanted…
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156685
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The army was bulldozing grandmother's house.
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156532
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How long have you been waiting for me? How long?
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156551
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Because he tells her to, she puts on a vintage Easter dress one size too small and sprawls in a circle of light on the dusty floor...
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156520
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The location : Vic's Seedy Space Bar. No, that's not just a description, that's the real name.
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156531
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The poppers, the Viagra, the chorizo – all had been ordered and all had arrived.
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1565158
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I paid the doctor / You paid the doctor
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1565148
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156586
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You left for the glittery wild of West Hollywood. I guess L.A.'s off-limits now. My heart goes fucking tachy when I drive over Kellogg Hill past Forest Lawn and see the skyline glowing through the rainbow haze of sunset. You're out there, out in the…
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156520
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The sighs of the nearby shore came to me through an open window.Wave after gentle wave caressed her broad, sand crusted skin. Mesmerized, I lay still.The in out sound of breathing now filled the room.Your warmth enveloping me like the satin…
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156532
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He pours both of us another drink and I take a gulp, even though it seems to be half vodka. My body slows, the alcohol confusing my nervous system. I rest my head on his shoulder. He doesn’t reach out to me. I wonder if this makes me the aggressor, but, a
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156571
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Things don't always go to plan. Gem knew what people would have said back then, of course. She wasn't stupid.
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156554
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She allowed him to wash her hair. Touching it in a wet state, running his hands through it in a soapy state, wringing the water out when he was finished—he was ecstatic.
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156563
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rockstar, moviestar, literary supernova – burning out before all the planets are declassified.
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156598
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On my twenty-second birthday, in the spring of 1979, I had a crawfish boil, my first. Ninety pounds of red mudbugs on a picnic table spread with newspaper, my birthday cake sitting at the end of the table like an afterthought.I hadn't…
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156551
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He was choking on the fumes.
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156530
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my molars are dancing, tekka-tekking to the strung-out paint can groove of my heart.
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