1466 6 5
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In your mouth is the attic studio
Where your father’s brushes lie wet with water
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146644
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I imagine diving into a vat of dried fruit, enjoying the unmistakable sweetness in each shriveled morsel, until I find myself biting into an undetected metal shard.
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146552
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jaws blossoming with drool,/ a captured wolf slinks low/ across the crowded land/ for that most tender lamb/ to catch it by surprise.
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146577
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To tell the truth, I can’t complain. Look, lots of people have it tough. I don’t have it tough...
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146567
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1. Weeds of the World (Unite!) We invade the invaders and they invade us, these little Blooming weeds. They raise five flowers and let them blow Into the winds like sheets of stars. All of us Steer by their turning tide. All of us will eventually …
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146521
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Ben was in no mood for games. His ribs hurt and his eye was painful. He would have to tell this girl, who had flicked her tongue in his ear and who did not sound like Sophie, to get lost
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146533
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I am speeding on the highway at 2AM because no one is here...
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146563
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rockstar, moviestar, literary supernova – burning out before all the planets are declassified.
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146543
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I can hear the echoes clearly. They are distinct and crisp, almost as though they're all on exact trajectories to me from their final bounce, without any interference. Each sound, while unintelligible, seems to fit perfectly and expectantly into my ears
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146596
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I guess at the end you’re only
looking forward. Or upward actually,
since you can only lie there on your back
looking upward, straight ahead toward infinity,
your mouth in a grimace, with the ghostly
pink lips peeled back from the teeth.
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14651817
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They meant no harm when they flooded farms in its swirls and eddies
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146510
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1. Lamia I slapped the venomous dream from his mouth before he could spit in my eyes; fuck him and his rage, fucking Tonton Macoute or whatever he was--and I got the hell out and away from that house and the fires that raged on all floors, and I fled…
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14651410
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Microscopic purposes emerged//
with their combinations and permutations
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146511
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I don't know, I could go on all day with these little niches he found in every person that made them at least a little interesting.
Everyone collects baseball cards.
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146586
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...the scream and the face...
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146455
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Innocent victims know their tonsils. Or know the sound of their forceful removal. Their mangled beauty is the grain that has gracefully substituted all the limb-hacking. The creature used to have a friend whose gestures were very harmless, …
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1464147
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like the dome of an immense lamp
like blades of grass at the sweep of the scythe
like a line of cliffs against a tempestuous tide
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14641210
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We can’t be sure. Perhaps it is/
some slight exaggeration of one/
or several elements that steals our breath.
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146400
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"Do you know how long they've waited for you?" Elle asked. "At first, it was every day after school, waiting at the windows. They wouldn't go play with friends because they wanted to be here, in case you returned. Then, they used to believe you would come
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146432
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How long have you been waiting for me? How long?
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146400
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Crack open the roof-- raise the battery on a platform with chains
up into the lightning
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146432
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“Life is on life’s terms,” she told me once. Her arm, wrapped in clear cellophane, was freshly adorned with a green-pigmented sand-dollar: a living shell.
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146440
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We’re more into the punishment that works its way in through the skin and coats the heart anonymously.
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146442
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My playing would falter languidly, and transcend itself like a wishful Nocturne
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146484
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The Houston police devised a punishment for the adulterous thespian that would not hurt the nights or household income of his French young wife.
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146431
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The man had decided that this was going to be his last day. He’d find out one final thing and he’d be done. He had spent the last few years of his life unwinding things that had been wound and untying knots that had been tied.
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146452
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Roy Carver owned a big tire retreading outfit over on the Mississippi.
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146410
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I was always bi-polar. I didn’t realize it was a mental illness until my divorce lawyer had the court order a psychiatric analysis.
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146354
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The war they wage fills everything with holes.
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