1415 17 9
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Words darken with smut and irony over time.
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141475
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Nothing changes; the moon arcs its mindful lemon eye. . .
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141400
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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.
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14141511
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The universe will fuck you over in the end./
That’s what it does, what it’s good at—
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141484
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even from the moon our planet’s truth has not been seen.
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141420
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The location : Vic's Seedy Space Bar. No, that's not just a description, that's the real name.
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141433
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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…
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141432
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I turned a maiden to a witch / and back again
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141476
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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…
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141410
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No matter how much he composes and prepares, he cannot override the electrical trigger in his brain. Something to do with the resonance of physical memory. It remembers amplitudes of current.
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141486
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He fell through her scalp-crust
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141444
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We ask was that me? The one on the corner with his hat tipped to the jaunty side? I've wore hats, I've stood on corners. Am I not jaunty?
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141496
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Erased. Like chalk across my body,
a fine powder of forgetfulness,
with a few swipes --- all those names
and faces, gone. The letters burned.
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141432
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They watched the seven o'clock news.
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1414107
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I wander toward the midnight dock
a neon sine curve stabs my eyes
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1413127
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This liberated you/
to grind me hard/
on the dance floor
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141310
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She took a deep breath. Last night, she said, Who was the woman?
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1413127
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In time, I will forgethow he said "smooshie" for "smoothie"and "eyebrowns" for "eyebrows,"how his upper lip dimpled when he laughedin that uproarious, wild toddler way.How he wheedled to be wrapped and rocked,after a bath, even at age five,his long calves uncovered by…
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14131311
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It’s possible to forgive the past its trespasses / stop seeing the future as a threat, reimagine / the present as a goal.
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141385
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—Mazel tov, schmazel tov!
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141365
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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…
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141340
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I heard the basketball hitting the pavement in the park across the street, right outside our window... I heard it every day in an evenly spaced rhythm, as if it was keeping time, like a metronome on my life...
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141374
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Once again there's too much to handle and
no space to process
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14131212
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I'm walking you / through Pere Lachaise
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141300
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Detective-Sergeant Claude Mulvihill was seasick. He was in a New York City Harbor Police boat in the East River headed towards the George Washington Bridge. There was a good chop in the harbor, which became worse when the Police Boat reached the Battery.
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141354
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The Zone is a garden of skyscrapers. Every building is a model.
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141355
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It is hunting season
in Jersey today.
They say
“There are too many deer
in Jersey today.”
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141356
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Wearing Land’s End clothes at life’s end
Driving around in circles in your Codgermobile
with 3 good hubcaps.
Who wouldn’t want to steal that?
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141365
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What a nation!
First we lost our money
Now we’ve lost our funny
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