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"Sara, do you taketh it with your eyes?"
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The thing Bentley remembered most about her was she had no body odor. None.
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under your skin the moon is alive
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160543
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The snow buzzes in the Ritalin air beneath Dairy Queen clouds
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160540
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We’re more into the punishment that works its way in through the skin and coats the heart anonymously.
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160587
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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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160598
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we name invasive species,
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16051610
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Shadows are so admirable in film noir
less so on x-rays and mammograms
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160512
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she shivered in the ceasefire like a virginal nude brought to life.
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1604114
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He is leaning back against a pillar watching the dancing; a spectator to joy – both planned and spontaneous – that’s unfolding in bodies fourteen and fifteen years old in front of him.
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160411
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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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160451
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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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I don’t know what to do with all this money flowing from my books.
It’s burning a hole in my literary pocket.
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16041210
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What did it mean? What would a psychologist say? Oh, who cares. In my opinion, we ask why, what, when, where, and how too often.
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160420
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The sighs of the nearby shore came to me through an open window.Wave after gentle wave caressed her broad, sand crusted skin. Mesmerized, I lay still.The in out sound of breathing now filled the room.Your warmth enveloping me like the satin…
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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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No twinkle- so, planet, not star./
And bright, so either Venus/
or Jupiter. I’m guessing, Jupiter.
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A woman posted a story on Fictionaut about discovering that her husband was a werewolf.
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160451
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There was a knock at the front door of Apartment Number 9. Ace Quana tried to beat his wiener dog, Little Ace to the door, but he could not. For while Little Ace had stubby legs like wet…
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160400
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There was all this pomp and circumstance. We were each outfitted with robes, red of course, and mortar-boards with a gold tassel dangling over one eye. It made me positively dizzy. Plus I was extremely hung-over that day.
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I’m from the Land of Sky Blue Waters. I grew up in a lake. I think I’m half fish.
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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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The coal carts come and go like the seasons, never stopping.
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160341
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At a rest stop in Montpelier, they stopped to buy Cokes and gum from the vending machines. He was showing off, trying to jimmy one of the locks with a safety pin but it stayed locked and she laughed at him and he said goddamn, look at all a them Milkyways
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160311
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160365
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We now live in post-Postmodern Absurdist fear of course, says our smiling Prof. That’s the price we pay he tells us. . . .
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160396
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Scientists have discovered what I already did once on dope
way back in the Sixties.
There are so many other earths out there
that they are almost infinite.
Now in our other lives we have to
shuttle from planet to planet
reading our poems. And
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160385
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We will collapse in a storm of images
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160200
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“Yo, Paciorek. Lend me your DNA, cuz I left mine on the farm, and I have a test tomorrow,” Feller ordered in a commanding voice, because he had gumption.
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