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Chicken Noodle

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Damn this airplane

New World

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The flash of love was real, the life within her was real, and the main thing now was to climb.

Same Old Song and Dance

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You want to get laid talking socks

Placeholders

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Everyone falls,

After He Stays

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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

Bad Writing

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When you're scared to write badly, that's when you write. You are probably trying to tell the truth.

During the Interim

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Nothing changes; the moon arcs its mindful lemon eye. . .

What People Do With Their Hands

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I said, “If this rose doesn't grow another petal in twenty minutes, I'm burning down the neighborhood.” “Just let it go,” said Paul. “No,” I said. “That's what's happening right here.” “You'll try again next…

Still

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Later

Julia

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Six months later, she was teaching theology / to refugees from est.

On the Roof

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Marie was on the roof. The deck, with its cool concrete pavers and faded cedar Adirondack chairs, was one of the reasons she and Harold had bought their condo in this building. The only ugly part of the roof was the chain-link fence along its edge; soon after they moved…

Too Early, Too Late

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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.

Morphine

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Until the ivy hides me in

Freelance Your Way to Poverty

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Buyers of freelance writing have a well-deserved reputation for responding slowly, thereby increasing your pleasure in much the same way that the Pointer Sisters longed for a slow hand.

She Called My Poem Nice

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“There is no future in art, you will not change lives with flowery words. Please don’t rock the boat”

Paper White

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With each step, that cold hand steals ever upward.

Rolls

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Nothing is ever hoarded in our house, everything is eaten.

Word Balloon

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Most times a vertical word balloon floats before him.

The Congregation Next Door

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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.

Fealty

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I wander toward the midnight dock a neon sine curve stabs my eyes

Waking Up After a Nap During Election Day

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He is an exercise in humility:What I cannot have or be. The chances of our meetingand his perfection are darkly astronomical. There are plenty of otherswhose riches I cannot have,why envy him?We are similar in spritbut have different fortunes.It is unfair and…

Muse

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This liberated you/ to grind me hard/ on the dance floor

1970

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deformed or retarded

Arcana Magi Pure Vol.5 - c.1

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Mayumi and Emi were in the spring’s together, center of the pool at shoulder depth. Emi stood in the center, letting its warm and clean air clear out her thoughts.

Letters to Conrad

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Dear Conrad, If you cannot control your dog’s barking I’ll rig up a loud speaker facing the general direction of your house, and every time your mutt starts howling at the moon, I’ll start playing “It’s a Small World (After All)” at top volume on the p

Peggy Guggenheim Visits an Operation

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To pay the bill.

My Latest Failure

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Jason, the obnoxious host, thrusts his microphone against my nose.

Diary

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Ivan was used to explosions, but this was high in the sky. He was on his back between tall sunflowers that grew infinitely in all directions. The blast made the flowers bow their heads. Bits of debris fell from the blue sky, some shiny, trailing fire or smoke. The boy…

Milkmen

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I can barely pick out the numbers on the houses

Cleaning Man

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The Zone is a garden of skyscrapers. Every building is a model.