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A spire
that had stood one hundred and forty years
fell in
a single second of the blackest day.
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1606109
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...when they decided to teach her a lesson, it was with particular vigor and vitriol...
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160600
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Crack open the roof-- raise the battery on a platform with chains
up into the lightning
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Its intelligence won’t be/
diminished when you take/
a bone saw to its cranium
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160675
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TV and power cord valorized in dust,/
wires and digital guts unimpaired, I’d guess . . .
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160664
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bassackward/in the surreal/bathroom mirror
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160610
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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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Our dinner was over and we regretfully had to leave the restaurant. She leaves with enough shopping money for a few weeks. He, getting the rough end of the deal, has charged more money to his credit card at 19% plus cash withdrawal fees. So I ask myself
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160631
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On the news they said that there was a baby born in a stable. There are rumours that he may be the son of God but initial reports are unconfirmed.
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160500
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I smoked my cigarro under his watchful eye. We were never able to make too much conversation even when I was teaching him at Educenter. Now that David had opened his own school, Evert had come to learn with him because it was much more affordable, but he
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1605215
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I didn’t give her enough skin. The world will always hurt her.
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160554
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I found the hand eight months ago, after I planned to grow a meadow of tiny yellow blossoms in my yard.
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1605116
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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.
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160533
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I contemplate the words that did not make it; the lost ones. The words deprived of their moment in the sun. These words. These words that are not part of the story.
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My father's cousin is Salem the Dead.
Famed, an infant Lazarus of Libya,
he was brought lifeless from the womb,
yet awoke to the chill of a mortuary slab.
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160433
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They look like giant golden raindrops, or flying saucers, or peculiar fish out of their element
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16041410
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The knees remind you: you are old,/
and broken, and unlikely to improve
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160411
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Published in Exquisite CorpseI…
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160400
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A customary phone call from home. What are you doing she says? Playing football I retort – what else. The usual sigh and a faint giggle followed. Much unlike how it backfired back in the late 20’s and we were going to make it the reason to break up! The p
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160400
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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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160411
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There is no cement stronger than the one holding a miserable couple together.
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160498
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On my twenty-second birthday, in the spring of 1979, I had a crawfish boil, my first. Ninety pounds of red mudbugs on a picnic table spread with newspaper, my birthday cake sitting at the end of the table like an afterthought.I hadn't…
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160401
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I followed the curve of the etched Koi, its filigree scales arcing across a taut midriff toward the indent of her pierced navel, where a collection of water lilies drifted on the surface of her skin.
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They meant no harm when they flooded farms in its swirls and eddies
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160431
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I will go to work in the morning and no one will stop me.
I wish someone would stop me.
I don’t know if my car will start in this cold.
But if it does (it always does), I am going to drive to work.
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1604158
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She is too stylish to be crazy, is what the migrant probably thinks. And he's right.
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160432
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...Heroin. It helped them get through the tricks and sucked up their flesh.
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160431
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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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160310
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She took a deep breath. Last night, she said, Who was the woman?
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