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Running into the fire, the smoke and the chaos;
selfless first responders, innocent bystanders,
and dedicated runners
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You should never have believed your daddy when he said a man with half a dog was better off than a man with no dog at all.
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unwrapping
the gauze from her wrists....
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159097
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Out in the world again, pretending to belong.
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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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158954
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“Sixty-seven responses!” Al Edelstein announces at the first meeting of the search committee. It has been just two weeks since Rabbi Feldman dropped dead of a heart attack and just a week since the congregation ran the ad: “Help Wanted: Orthodox Rabbi. Im
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my maddening pyromaniac,/ you're burning up my heart/ so open up your broad-toothed mouth/ and let me pour the ashes in.
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There was a body in the backseat, and they drove through the highways at night to a late night radio show that played 80’s power ballads. He said: “I am really glad you’re here for me.”
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I paid the doctor / You paid the doctor
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Caster had always imagined the Consensus as a big room, as big as the world, filled with white space and people with quantum wings, flitting about, creating information. There were tinted bubbles for people to share for privacy, and the lights never went
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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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I wondered if Mr. Slane even knew/
how many dogs he owned
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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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158943
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Her back turned, she wanders off
searching for the way home
wringing her hands,
trying to think, but thoughts
evade her.
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The flash of love was real, the life within her was real, and the main thing now was to climb.
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“Let me in,” I begged.
“No. Get back stinky feet.”
“I washed them.”
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"His middle name is Valentine, and when asked about it, he isn't sure why."
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I wander toward the midnight dock
a neon sine curve stabs my eyes
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158943
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The Rapture comes and goes unannounced in carbonated soda bubbles spicing the air.
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After his chemotherapy failed, he went water skiing.
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158811
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Published in Exquisite CorpseI…
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158832
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How long have you been waiting for me? How long?
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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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" I have no idea what's goin on out here, and I'm gonna find out one way or another."
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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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A spire
that had stood one hundred and forty years
fell in
a single second of the blackest day.
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I dragged you that last half mile Me such a slip of a thing, one bite mark visible You the bear, your growl now only audible When you furred from kerb to road to kerb The December snow followed us Dragging Christmas red behind you As I ignored my…
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