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All I wanted to do was lay in his smell, I had missed him and didn’t know it before now. He got up to urinate at one point and his absence was obscene to me.
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158132
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...Heroin. It helped them get through the tricks and sucked up their flesh.
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15802014
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I become the accumulation/
of appetites
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1580126
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My ChurchThe white dressThe bridesmaidsThe friends, the familySadnessMy church knewno music
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1580105
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salmon sits gentler on my palate
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158086
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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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158031
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It's London Zoo and ten minutes to closing time. The clock walks in and out of cages. I love you baby when you laugh like that at monkeys.Penguin and pelican, wing in wing, approaching. It's some bird act, I know. Two birds from nowhere. One flies, one walks.The zoo…
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his mother brought him to me/ when he was very young/ maybe a few months old,/ born in arizona july.
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158085
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I dreamt once
a child’s drawing of a house
all scribbly black crayon
swayback roof crooked
chimney. God, do you
remember how cold it was
that night?
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158083
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Every ten days, the Decadent Sisters assembled for dinner. Although raised together, they were each very different...
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1580118
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“The beginning was good. That’s what he likes. The moment when you’re driving in the open air and your hair is flying and your skirt is whipping up around your knees, and he’s smoking, of all things, and happy and looking at you."
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1580108
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hookers are better educated these days
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1580117
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BECAUSE to fuck is an incidental REASON to be here
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15801410
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Microscopic purposes emerged//
with their combinations and permutations
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157951
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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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157911
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she knows that's the natural place of a man, above everything, closest to god, eyes slowly filling with rain.
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157954
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The war they wage fills everything with holes.
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157921
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Sure my man. Show me the token I’ll show you the slice.
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157997
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157943
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“106 more miles,” she said.
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157900
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Dominic would show them all. That stupid "Welcome to Bessemer" sign was his. It was the pride of the whole damn town. No other target would do.It was the dead of night, and Dominic rode his bike to the town line. He briefly considered spray painting something vulgar over…
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15792016
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The night before his mother's teeth began chattering.
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157952
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When a multinational big box furniture store opened just off the expressway outside the city selling all the same products at greatly reduced prices, they contemplated the possibility of closing their store.
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157900
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Since when has it become a crime to walk about a neighbourhood? No one will ever convince me that it 's okay to follow, harass, or approach any unarmed person with a gun and shoot them.
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157900
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We knew this year would be different because we bought bikinis. We had never worn bikinis before. Our swimsuits had always been shiny one-pieces with stripes, or polka dots, or tiny yellow fish. Not this year. It was a hot summer and the department store was overly …
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157900
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Can you see the rut? Can you dig your fingers into the flesh?
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157979
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I don't know where to start. We're gaining flight. Did you seeanybody we know? The trees are always a concern. I don't thinkI know how to stop this thing from crashing into parked cars,that is if we live. You can say it was all on a stupid dare. They don't have to know…
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157811
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"Shit," said the Charge Nurse. "Not again."
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157822
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No one had told the newer tenants that the dead would be given votes, and they were in an uproar: it wasn’t legal; it wasn’t fair; it was creepy.
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The leaves were meaningless because they were no longer connected to the trees.
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