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I was always bi-polar. I didn’t realize it was a mental illness until my divorce lawyer had the court order a psychiatric analysis.
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Anatoly Gringovitch was listening to the dress rehearsal of Hausenstockmann’s Constellations at Auditorium Rainier III in Monte Carlo.
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black
hair/ (damp)
around her ears
Keys on the
table
Drinking coffee
from a glass
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The easiest and most legal way to pick up a woman is to take a single, writer friend with you to a bar. While there, look for the woman you are interested in. Her? Are you sure? Okay then. Next, tell your writer friend that the woman keeps looking at him when he's…
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it felt fucking awesome at that moment, in that way only little things can feel huge and life affirming
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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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For a few/
vivid weeks, deciduous shrubs and trees/
will seem to glow like flames and embers
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Its intelligence won’t be/
diminished when you take/
a bone saw to its cranium
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When Frank entered Michiko’s apartment, Michiko was not there.
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Until the ivy hides me in
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…like candy and puke on your tongue, the fakest broad ever, cruising like a busted prow, busted wheel, mast and stem, these stately wrecks and rotten flowers of perfume and the deadly bitchiness of the modern woman’s expectations.
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Nothing is ever hoarded in our house, everything is eaten.
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As a rule, she calls me whenever she’s waiting for her train or bus. ‘Hiya… How’s life-’ she starts off sweetly. Even though I should know better by now, I can only respond in the same old way. I’ll say: ‘Hi Kate!’. Next, I’ll try to te
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I asked the hospice nurse about maggots.
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When you're scared to write badly, that's when you write. You are probably trying to tell the truth.
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Someone shoved over a table. A little girl started crying.
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Early on, I looked for work; I walked the want-ad trail. Shuttle-driver, apartment leasing expert, laundry technician, account executive, PHP developer, dog sitter, sleep study subject – I would do anything that seemed steady.
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Things don't always go to plan. Gem knew what people would have said back then, of course. She wasn't stupid.
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“Bound to happen,” Marny said. “The way he went on; no doubt he'd end up like this.” Few folks sitting around in a one room shack. Walls were weather stained slats; the door, the only opening. Their fans flapping the air in their…
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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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Most times a vertical word balloon floats before him.
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You want to get laid talking socks
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It was all things considered a particularly odd sight, which Annalise did not know how to handle.
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When Carlton Hanks bought the house on the corner of Annunciation and General Pershing, right next to St. Anthony’s Catholic Church, he believed that he’d live in peace.
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When the sex that is new and promising in its awkward moments is over, you turn to him. You expect that he’s figuring out a way to leave; the parts of you that know wait for him to stand up and put his clothes back on, quicker and with more eagerness than
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Words darken with smut and irony over time.
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Nothing changes; the moon arcs its mindful lemon eye. . .
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