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I enjoy launching words into space. Please dangle a moment here while I prepare the next sentence. Ok. You can come in now. Take boiling for instance. And hawsers. The sound of words on a sheet of paper. The manifesto for a roll of sleep. Sleep is oblivious to…
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No twinkle- so, planet, not star./
And bright, so either Venus/
or Jupiter. I’m guessing, Jupiter.
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1653149
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everything moved in circles
like the music, the booze and the drugs
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165354
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It was uncomfortable to realize people had agendas. That there could be invisible realities.
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165341
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"His middle name is Valentine, and when asked about it, he isn't sure why."
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165332
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The combined smells of ocean breeze, grilled cheese sandwiches, incense and sweat and burning herb that wafted over from Shakedown, along with windblown notes from tinny car speakers all rolled into a potent sensory cocktail he hadn’t tasted in far too l
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16521210
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We can’t be sure. Perhaps it is/
some slight exaggeration of one/
or several elements that steals our breath.
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165264
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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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165253
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It was midnight. I was outside the cottage, digging another row of star-shaped holes for the shrubbery.
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16522016
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The night before his mother's teeth began chattering.
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165285
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I dreamt once
a child’s drawing of a house
all scribbly black crayon
swayback roof crooked
chimney. God, do you
remember how cold it was
that night?
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16521110
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Paris is a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
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165221
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"Now, I'm not no Holocaust Denier . . . I just think it was a little bump in the road! Like Reagan said about Watergate . . . 'Mistakes were made,' and all. Well, shoot . . .…
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165253
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under your skin the moon is alive
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165287
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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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165201
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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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165243
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Auto and the Grease-Pits
Sugar Cube
Full Frontal
The Holy Grill
Crazy Al and the Squirrels
Talk Is Cheap
Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Cold Zippers
Destiny Howl
Epiphany Critter
Cold Kneecaps
Crepes
Pulled Pork
Baby Seals and the Club
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165221
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A look flashed across his face as if someone had hooked up his genitals to a car battery.
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165231
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The man had decided that this was going to be his last day. He’d find out one final thing and he’d be done. He had spent the last few years of his life unwinding things that had been wound and untying knots that had been tied.
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16521312
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Forty years later he was still her Romeo, she his Juliet.
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165211
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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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165161
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I’m trying to get this said, this piece of fact. If I am a person who can own something, then that something that I own is not me, not me as a person. I do not own my foot, my foot is my own. It’s like a whatsit, a semantic distinction I’m trying to
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165187
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Study decay, says the Queen of the Underground.
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1651117
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the swarthy terror network
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165143
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We all need a place to stay.
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165154
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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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165194
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This guy struts and never walks, and while doing so he reads and sends text messages and emails from his smart phone and so never walks in a straight line.
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165144
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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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165132
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His academic nightmare is set in an examination hall, where the student takes a seat at a folding table in the center of the room.
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165154
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we gave divided houses / child stand up anyway
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