1663 6 4
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bassackward/in the surreal/bathroom mirror
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166377
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A new philosophy stirs in its surgery.
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166300
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From Berlin to Arcturus. I squeeze Sevigny’s wrist, wish Izzy could be here, but she’s melting salt in Utah. We were on our way to Los Angeles. I’ve booked the horror room.
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166254
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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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166200
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I catch a glimpse of myself in the small mirror on the adjacent wall and find myself becoming shy at my own reflection, which is ludicrous in theory, shying away from oneself, but as I lock onto the few freckles I have spread neatly on both cheeks...
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166221
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Winter makes me reconsider.
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166273
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I did do one nice thing for you
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166221
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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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166233
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ABSOLUTELY DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OF ROBOTS!
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16621410
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In those years,
you and I were told to leap
for a world suffused with sound
and industry.
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16621310
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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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1662117
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BECAUSE to fuck is an incidental REASON to be here
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166242
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The following is a true story, or rather it is a true experience from the story of my life. Some say that just because something happens doesn’t really make it “true”.
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1662114
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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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166294
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In this lab, where I work 40 hours a week,
live the ghosts of questions asked.
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166265
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166274
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They were
obviously having
some secret
beach affair.
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166144
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The man wore a bowler hat and stood on an open patch of grass, with a pyramid-shaped stack of baseballs at his feet.
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1661104
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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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166100
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Takashi and Hideki stared at the pool of grey Mana. A scientist carefully contained some of the mist into a container.
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1661148
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Six months later, she was teaching theology / to refugees from est.
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166100
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Street by street, non-combatants ran away. Each one passed by the Society and law enforcement screaming.
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166121
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Looming ahead was another polite suburban party at which, after a couple of pops, I'd say something that embarrasses my wife in front of her girlfriends. Or so she claims.
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166111
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There is no cement stronger than the one holding a miserable couple together.
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16612714
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Its intelligence won’t be/
diminished when you take/
a bone saw to its cranium
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166192
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Cat's ass was on fire. The roof was scorching hot. Her clothes were in a pile by the door that led to the roof. She was sitting next to the ventilation duct, her hands outstretched behind her, her knees bent before her. Jim was standing in front of…
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166176
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I keep attempting to start a correspondence with people / but they end up not being interested in me, / either that or I scare them away / because I usually begin with: / “Well, my favorite philosopher is Hegel..."
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166141
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We cannot love the past...
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1661107
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The tech turns off the music. The capsule blares. I am in Jurassic Park with Sam Neill. I am Timmy, descending the electrified fence, almost toast. I am Karen Silkwood, a deer in the headlights, then showering off plutonium. A garbage truck is compacting
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166133
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The questions we ask ourselves define who we are as a culture. “What is the meaning of life?” “Is there a God?” “Does anybody really know what time it is?” “Where the hell did I put my car keys?” To see what…
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