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will we begin again?We are a wheelFirst touchfirst kissfirst heatThey fade, disappear, come back again.Spokes in our wheel.When again shall we begin again?I hold you and feel myself spincaught in the whirlwind of thrill -the world, saturated with your scent.We hold each…
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163164
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bassackward/in the surreal/bathroom mirror
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163100
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Can you see the rut? Can you dig your fingers into the flesh?
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We discussed the epic poems/
and agreed to write a new one.
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163131
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Your favorite nickname
existed only in the bright red
cherry smoldering
at the end of your smoke.
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163021
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Winter makes me reconsider.
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163051
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Nicole knows that Deirdre is winding up for the weekly pitch, practicing the line in her mind.
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163033
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From this distance, he reminded me of a sleazy pink flamingo, waiting for feeding time at the zoo to deepen the timbre of his feathers and hint at the promise of a narcotic aviation before his commune of hens.
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163022
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" I have no idea what's goin on out here, and I'm gonna find out one way or another."
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163032
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I turned a maiden to a witch / and back again
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163043
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We all need a place to stay.
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163031
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"She saw they were absorbed in making faces at each other with a smartphone app that enlarged a mouth."
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163064
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. . . he wants to organize society into its most efficient configuration with everyone thinking alike and willingly cooperating. Only then, he believes, can humanity reach its full potential.
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163033
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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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163000
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Mint upon my palate, I rub sleep infused eyes and crawl under the covers. Oh blessed sleep, please descend upon this body and transverse this fatigue. Eyes closed, bring a wavering blackness upon subtle lids. The conversation begins…
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163000
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The bullet split her head in half before she could finish her sentence. Her blood sprayed out onto my face and covered my lips. The taste of life as it suddenly ended.
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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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hookers are better educated these days
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163043
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163000
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They were working on the factory floor when they died, the auspices of mayhem filtering out to a host of ravens gleaning the neighboring fields. Clouds of them fled the scene around the time of the incident turning the day into twilight…
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163011
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On that balcony, on every other day, she practised her other, more worldly religion - gardening, specifically sunflowers.
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163010
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Three teeth. You can pick them out if you hit pause just right. Probably not a person in the entire valley who hasn’t seen that video from the Eastern Cheerleading Finals. They even showed the tape on the eleven o’clock news in Scranton, my face ci
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163034
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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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163031
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The blackout lasted longer than anyone thought. From my fifth story window, the whole city seemed to shut down. I heard noises above me. How could it be?
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162985
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Snipers wear camouflage clothing to avoid being seen. It wouldn’t do for a sniper to be seen because then the sniper might become the snipee.
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1629215
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I didn’t give her enough skin. The world will always hurt her.
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162900
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The moon hung in the sky, round and pale, under cover of some wispy clouds.
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162952
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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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Six months later, she was teaching theology / to refugees from est.
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