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I become the accumulation/
of appetites
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146033
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ABSOLUTELY DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OF ROBOTS!
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That won’t kill me, will it? I asked. Maybe, the doctor said.
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Its intelligence won’t be/
diminished when you take/
a bone saw to its cranium
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146087
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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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146030
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146064
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The cat wound itself around Megan’s neck, its purring curling through Megan’s consciousness. She was the cat and then herself, both things at once.
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146074
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Each memory of Fall reminds me of the harvest; Surely this is not a thought to turn the thought of dying. Black the turning point, there is a glint at the tip of the wing: Perhaps it rises from its cinders as I wish when I was waning, …
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146075
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I am no different to her, living seven days ahead
of myself, looking forward to looking back,
as we Irish do so fondly
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146022
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Exhausted, weak from the struggle against the personal gift of terrorism delivered by her ex-boyfriend, she died for a few minutes.
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1460179
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Words darken with smut and irony over time.
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1459710
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From room to room, neither closet nor drawer contained any remnant of pleasant memory.
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145900
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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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145994
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The man's dog slipped away one night. He left soon after.
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145922
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From my place, down here amongst the earth, we have many names for you.
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1459117
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the swarthy terror network
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145900
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Dominic would show them all. That stupid "Welcome to Bessemer" sign was his. It was the pride of the whole damn town. No other target would do.It was the dead of night, and Dominic rode his bike to the town line. He briefly considered spray painting something vulgar over…
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145996
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1459106
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Eight days before her 50th birthday they were married in their soft new pajamas, holding hands on his bed in the hospital. The pastor and witnesses wore protective hospital gowns and gloves; the patient was in isolation once again. A special dispensation from the head…
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145900
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The pit of my stomach was bottoming out, this lurching sort-of feeling one experiences when one has coasted WELL OVER an abyss and has no way of finding one's bearings . . .
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145953
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Most times a vertical word balloon floats before him.
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145967
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“Not all the birds are to be trusted, and there are other spies more evil than they are.” —J.R.R.Tolkien This may well be our own about time, time to walk out that comfortable front door forever into danger. Nothing will ever…
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14591211
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After my vasectomy, I got a T-shirt with a picture of an orange on it. It said "All Juice, No Seeds."
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14591710
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I packed food for a lifetime, clothes and boots, all the guns, and the audio of our poetry...
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145900
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Ever since they switched from paper scripts to the little rubber balls branded with code I have been inundated with sickness.
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145865
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faith in gravity/permitted them to extol/the guillotine's blade.
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14581511
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The universe will fuck you over in the end./
That’s what it does, what it’s good at—
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145800
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Captain Zeep came to Earth at last century's end to help pave the way for a Zorkian takeover by 2012 at the latest. Key to the game plan: Earthlings had to get dumber than eggplants. When George Bush stole the White House, Zeep figured, Bingo, dumb…
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145854
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I’ll sit up
all night,
I don’t mind.
I don’t have to
Go to work,
Or
Wake up early.
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