1601 7 5
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TV and power cord valorized in dust,/
wires and digital guts unimpaired, I’d guess . . .
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16011817
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They meant no harm when they flooded farms in its swirls and eddies
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1601158
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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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160142
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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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160161
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I do not know what zinzins is, what a zinzins is, who zinzins is.
I do not want to know
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160131
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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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160032
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Remembering Ginsberg
who howled through just about everybody's idea of the real weirdo poet
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16001410
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The knees remind you: you are old,/
and broken, and unlikely to improve
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160000
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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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1600215
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I didn’t give her enough skin. The world will always hurt her.
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160032
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"Why, before the summer has passed
You won’t remember her name. . ."
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160031
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He came to a spot on the edge of the strawberry fields where he liked to sit with his brother and watch the turkey buzzards circle overhead
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160000
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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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160076
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I keep attempting to start a correspondence with people / but they end up not being interested in me, / either that or I scare them away / because I usually begin with: / “Well, my favorite philosopher is Hegel..."
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160053
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Rose lifted her 55-year-old legs until they were perpendicular to the bed and admired how girlish they looked. It gave her the sexy legs of a 20-year old, if the morning light was right and she squinted a bit.
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160010
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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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160031
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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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159921
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The supervisor, sensing the fear in me, pats my hand and says "Never you mind! This is normal in the tomato. Every few days we rile up, make sauce, and regrow again. Have you ever been in spaghetti sauce before?"
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159954
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The war they wage fills everything with holes.
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159942
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True facts about Redbeard the communist pirate.
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159921
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Forgetting her inhibitions, she dove for him.
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159986
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You left for the glittery wild of West Hollywood. I guess L.A.'s off-limits now. My heart goes fucking tachy when I drive over Kellogg Hill past Forest Lawn and see the skyline glowing through the rainbow haze of sunset. You're out there, out in the…
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159931
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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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159921
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Looming ahead was another polite suburban party at which, after a couple of pops, I'd say something that embarrasses my wife in front of her girlfriends. Or so she claims.
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159954
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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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159933
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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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159964
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When he smashed his plate in my lap, the dog hung around, licking my wrist and hoping that he would get some milk, too. With my luck, he'd jump in the pool, getting grass clippings all over the edge. My nails were sharp that day, I had to cut them, and I did while…
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15991911
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served as it is/
among these friends.
The frayed filaments/
tickle my chin and irritate my nostrils,
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159911
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There is no cement stronger than the one holding a miserable couple together.
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159922
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Beautiful boy! I am doomed / to have attended your presence; / time consumes us, but you / have changed so little...
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