1662 7 7
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166212
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What a beautiful day it was, what a wonderful day to lose one's mind. This is what you think going into it, that it is all a wonderful dream come true, and sure I'll have my hands full, but at the end of the day it will be worth something. If I hang in long enough,…
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1662149
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everything moved in circles
like the music, the booze and the drugs
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166111
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It’s last call for the Class of 2001, their five-year reunion drawing to a close, and Brenner, in his standard t-shirt and holey jeans, has just arrived.
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166183
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166131
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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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166163
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Chant the ice cream mantra.
Prance the do dah day ballet.
Trot the t-bone tango two-step.
Dance the livelong day away.
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166171
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Emma Louise is walking over a concrete bridge when she spies, out of the corner of her eye, a man fishing, waist deep, in the river tumbling below. She is thinking that the water must be very cold on this autumn day, when she sees an extraordinary thing.
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166110
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No matter how much he composes and prepares, he cannot override the electrical trigger in his brain. Something to do with the resonance of physical memory. It remembers amplitudes of current.
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166100
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The artist leans back in his chair, smoking a cigarette
after lunch, looking away from the table toward the right
He is dressed in white, and he's practically stretched out
his entire length, to relax after rowing the boat all
morning. Sunlight
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166187
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I imagine you in the States,
pushing stacks of work papers and our memories
to the side, sense your enjoyment that
you won’t see the worry of your
behavior reflected in my eyes again.
That you can buy and bang and be
whomever you want,
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1661148
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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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166130
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…she smelled of sunflowers.
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166133
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166177
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I’m decades in and it hasn’t gone away.
In all other respects, I am normal. Life
is hard, but I’m not complaining. The thing
is, I am in a constant state of falling.
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16611610
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Shadows are so admirable in film noir
less so on x-rays and mammograms
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166081
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166011
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Published in Exquisite CorpseI…
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166022
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From my place, down here amongst the earth, we have many names for you.
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166051
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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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166011
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But Jake doesn't hear anything. He is pure, unfiltered, liquid rage. Jake kicks Rolex dude once, twice, five times in the ribs. On the last kick, there is a snapping sound.
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166022
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Jason, the obnoxious host, thrusts his microphone against my nose.
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166000
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Crack open the roof-- raise the battery on a platform with chains
up into the lightning
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166020
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166054
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My wife broke the news to me. She enjoyed it, too, I'm certain of that. It was a juicy piece of gossip.
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166011
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empty wine bottles, and a single abandoned boot
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166064
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Harpo was there with his wife. Harpo’s girlfriend came up behind the couch where I was sitting, and I ran my hand up her leg underneath her dress.
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166011
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children love to push the gas up and down my limbs
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165922
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Snakes have no eyelids, no hips, no lobby in Washington (some creatures do!) and little support at home.
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165911
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1. Poor grammar does not sleep. 2. We'll never finish every idea we have. 3. No matter how hard you try, you still might make it into my book
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