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my second language / to silence / plainsong of / the breast
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—Frank, how is your sex life?
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Max leads the parade up the hill. He is sawing on his violin, wearing nothing but a raincoat.
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Your voice so soft / I wish it was touch.
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Girl with glasses and
skinny fingers
playing with wires
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French citizens. The friends were all citizens of a half-assed France. The friends were all half-assed citizens of a French stance. Carol was more American, more eggnog, more cream-of-wheat. She represented dull victory.
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Too often, Calvin's willful head finds its way into his hands.
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It’s End of the World Karaoke at Big Daddy’s and Lara takes a photo of herself for Facebook before she goes on stage. She’s holding a basket of nachos in one hand and her phone in the other. After she takes the photo, she says, to Javier, “Hold these,” an
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the swarthy terror network
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We played synthetic derivative punk. We used Donald Trump tweets as lyrics.
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A pinprick breaks the black/
and pins the spin of constellations/
around its still point.
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Yellow tape marks a walkway that was previously unknown. Caution, caution. Lounge turned waiting room for a ballroom turned infirmary. An entrance, an exit, caution, caution. The line is of amusement park ride length. But no roller coaster at the end, only an antidote…
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What did it mean? What would a psychologist say? Oh, who cares. In my opinion, we ask why, what, when, where, and how too often.
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I'm walking you / through Pere Lachaise
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He boasts of administering regular beatings to his wife and claims that she enjoyed it.
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He's driving in the Sierra Nevada with his wife and their small daughters and the girls are fighting and he can't take much more of it.
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"Look at this," she says while thumbing through the guide book, "look at what we can do on Jooga Booga island. Says here, 'Parasailing over the sapphire blue sea, one soars hundred of feet above water-skiers, boaters, and snorkelers, and the picture is b
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Other men looked up and, rather than feeling pleasantly surprised at the sudden sound of ethereal metal crickets in their presence, left the restroom after hastily finishing their silent shaking. Mitch joined them, feeling like a coward for being afraid o
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I went to a drum circle next night under the full moon in May, scotch broom and lilacs blooming. One does not inhale such aphrodisiacs without losing one’s balance. There were children of druids and pagans and stregas from lands over the sea, lands beyo
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Lavender, a Liberal Betty, batty from hormones, in a fanciful fit, named her daughter Lavender. Husband Don winced. Brothers Donald, John, Billy, and Tom were puzzled and pleased by this sister, this girl, who was a little bit like them, yet not like them at…
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He just up and dropped dead one day, Charles said. Pretty tough on Karen, I opined. Charles looked the other way.
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Out in the world again, pretending to belong.
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I'll strip off the skin down to the begin again.
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It's tough when muscle gets in the way of memory. The way pain is the only thing I can remember about certain things. Fifth grade, that's what I think of. I think of pain. Not just abstract pain, not some we'll get to it later adolescent angst or ennui.…
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Some guys ride hills up and down,
Then stop to terrorize small towns.
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They waited not a moment longer than was necessary But moved right in and
Began their loathsome ch
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tell me about the time you lived in Carolina, and what my smile does
for you.
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"Give it to me I said, you dip! Fork it over!"
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