1597 4 3
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15972110
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The fly comes in against my will/
and hers. She would prefer/
the wider world with its piles of shit
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159731
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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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159777
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You think I don't know, that's your whole stupid problem. You don't believe in anyone. You must enjoy living in a dark lonely universe. I don't know if you know or not about the lights that live in your own head, but I believe …
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159754
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It was uncomfortable to realize people had agendas. That there could be invisible realities.
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159785
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We will collapse in a storm of images
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1596114
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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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159660
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Velvet answered the door in a red leather dress that was made with just about enough material to make a wallet, and looking like a long limbed drink of water calling out to a thirsty man.
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159610
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“We’re never going to get off the treadmill of paying ever-higher taxes," I said, "unless we get some creative suggestions from a professional bisexual tax advisor.”
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159632
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I turned a maiden to a witch / and back again
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159640
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The way each intersection in a city where you’ve lived a while becomes layered with personal archeology.
The cafe that replaced a liquor store you avoided, and the friend (or lover) you broke up with there,
and the way on the day of the big fire you
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159665
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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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159631
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Nothing is ever hoarded in our house, everything is eaten.
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1596149
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everything moved in circles
like the music, the booze and the drugs
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15961610
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Shadows are so admirable in film noir
less so on x-rays and mammograms
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159554
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Cornelius van Linjpleel discovered and excavated for himself a lone Etruscan tomb not far from Populonia in 1898.
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159522
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The man and the woman looked at each other almost shyly. The man flicked his eyes away self-consciously and looked outside, seeing the clouds in the distance, the smaller buildings…
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1595103
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Palms planted firmly against his temples, Travis paced the room like a caged animal. Giant black bats screeched in his brain, their pointy wings scraping at the edges of his cranium.
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159511
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159522
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It is a hot August night — the same kind you remember from that summer after high school graduation. A cool breeze blows in off the ocean, sweeping across the boardwalk just hard enough to dry the …
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159521
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Sure my man. Show me the token I’ll show you the slice.
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1595106
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People Who Go to Poems for Truth
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15951210
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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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159532
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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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159540
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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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15951410
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A woman posted a story on Fictionaut about discovering that her husband was a werewolf.
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159553
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1595105
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addict for validation and cat tongues
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159576
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In the panic following news of my motorcycle crash, my honey fled the house without coat or wallet, and now, nearly midnight, we don’t even have cab fare home.
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15941411
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Tender bodies sizzle on the grill.
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