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“I would like to keep my head, at least for a few more nights. Didn't you say we were gonna have sex one of these days? Isn't that in the manual?”
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1652105
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salmon sits gentler on my palate
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165263
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My poems have appeared in four different publications; three have died shortly after they ran my stuff. Coincidence, or something more sinister?
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165220
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With a roar and short burst of flame, the dragon awoke, startled.
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165231
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He came to a spot on the edge of the strawberry fields where he liked to sit with his brother and watch the turkey buzzards circle overhead
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165221
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"Now, I'm not no Holocaust Denier . . . I just think it was a little bump in the road! Like Reagan said about Watergate . . . 'Mistakes were made,' and all. Well, shoot . . .…
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165220
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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165221
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1652108
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hookers are better educated these days
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1652168
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But his muscles fluttered and off he flew
leaving the stink of barnyard on the sheets.
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165200
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Part of me feels like a wounded animal surrounded by hungry cougars. Another part of me feels like being mauled by a cougar might not be that bad. A third part of me wishes he could punch the second part of me in the face.
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165241
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We cannot love the past...
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165234
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They were just boys, the Nazis I mean, young in their twenties, not much older than my brother Cyril.
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165110
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She took a deep breath. Last night, she said, Who was the woman?
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165143
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Write power
like a purring kitten
eyes wide
without an idea of exactly
how small he is.
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16511810
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I loved without marriage and the men loved without divorce and we loved a twenty-four-year-old eating and how gracious she shone over a tame bottle of beer.
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165132
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I turned a maiden to a witch / and back again
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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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165198
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we name invasive species,
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One of the drunk men, a dear friend, hunk, as he updated me, now living the existence of a poet, called from San Francisco to say he would take the plane to Minneapolis, do it, then leave me to raise the baby.
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16511310
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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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The flash of love was real, the life within her was real, and the main thing now was to climb.
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1651107
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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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165186
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The world is upon us. The only thing that matters Now is if you are willing to be seen by them. Many moths Will be hidden by simply gathering on the bark Of the one tree, but this will not sustain you if you Do not also have the courage…
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165022
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There's a large tunnel that runs under my house. I can only estimate but it's not deep below the ground and that's what worries me.
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165021
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Winter makes me reconsider.
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165074
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They found it naught however as it was lost at metro stops, canceled appointments and in ever dimming light that failed to reflect what was instead of what could have been.
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165022
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It is a hot August night — the same kind you remember from that summer after high school graduation. A cool breeze blows in off the ocean, sweeping across the boardwalk just hard enough to dry the …
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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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