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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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157460
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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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157432
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Somniloquies rise like the drowned . . .
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157485
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It's all over now, Baby Blue...
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157441
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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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157487
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I supposed reluctantly that Princeton is soft as Macalester College is soft. A person could die just for having attended U.W.-Madison or Yale.
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157454
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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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157485
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—Mazel tov, schmazel tov!
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157494
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Later, when she said she'd had miscarriages, I should have put it all together.
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157474
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Mythical Itch and the Unicorns
Working Late
Jacuzzi Floozy
One Erection
Diego Rivera’s Poncho
Frieda’s Moustache
Avalanche
Babushka Dolls
Photographic Mammary
Drool
Sir Gruntsalot
Uber Rubber
Iota Pie
Elder Geese
Ladylike
Rud
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15741911
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served as it is/
among these friends.
The frayed filaments/
tickle my chin and irritate my nostrils,
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157433
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I am speeding on the highway at 2AM because no one is here...
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157453
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under your skin the moon is alive
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15741110
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That won’t kill me, will it? I asked. Maybe, the doctor said.
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157432
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Instead, I get things like,
“Why can’t you find a nice man with cancer or a bum leg?”
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157432
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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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157485
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When Frank entered Michiko’s apartment, Michiko was not there.
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157400
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she thinks she looks good in her short red dress, black makeup around her eyes, last night's lipstick a slap of crimson on her cheek.
"like this," she says, holding the hammer above her head.
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157466
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It's really not too bad. The personI am was me. We laughed insidethose sacred places at all the monieswell spent. We walked in the gardenswithout any shoes on. Not one singleflower seemed to mind. And now it'sa forgotten mess or so I've imagined.I'd rather you think about…
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157488
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My favorite lie is that he'd escaped the South Tower before it collapsed. Smoke inhalation erased his way home. Mine's better than mother's version: a stranger hurled herself onto him. The truth is when they stopped search and rescue, mother told father, Go. Even dead, his…
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157454
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The coin, so little, the watch chain, the youth, the fading softening speech, each hand and finger, the panic modeled on your own eyes, the ashtray, certain stumps along the way, the long distance, the odd feather, the jazz rope gone,…
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It’s that laugh of hers that gets me...
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1574104
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The aisle, nave and/
transept twist themselves/
into an auditorium.
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157422
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Suppose Eve, strolling through the sunlit Garden, had not stumbled on that particular Tree at all, the wily serpent twined in its lower branches?
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157421
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They could cram Rob inside the trunk and then drop him somewhere in the dingles.
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157344
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The man wore a bowler hat and stood on an open patch of grass, with a pyramid-shaped stack of baseballs at his feet.
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157330
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I see ghosts. They accost me in their sleep. Hundreds of them. When I wake up (after a long night of half-waking), I think, What wold ghosts want with me? I have nothing for them. But at night they're there again, watching, tapping my shoulder as I lay awake. Sometime…
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157332
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I turned a maiden to a witch / and back again
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Emi stood up and turned to Mayumi. She did not know what else to say. There was a sense of helplessness.
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