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Words darken with smut and irony over time.
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This liberated you/
to grind me hard/
on the dance floor
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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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The universe will fuck you over in the end./
That’s what it does, what it’s good at—
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even from the moon our planet’s truth has not been seen.
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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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Anatoly Gringovitch was listening to the dress rehearsal of Hausenstockmann’s Constellations at Auditorium Rainier III in Monte Carlo.
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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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The Zone is a garden of skyscrapers. Every building is a model.
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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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He fell through her scalp-crust
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When Frank entered Michiko’s apartment, Michiko was not there.
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What a nation!
First we lost our money
Now we’ve lost our funny
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THE LAST THING I WANTED, expected, or needed was to be standing in the doorway of Carly Ray's room, watching her clutch a picture of her father, my old friend Beryl, up to her face. She is so tiny, but at the same time there is something very adult about the way she looks.…
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I wander toward the midnight dock
a neon sine curve stabs my eyes
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Nothing changes; the moon arcs its mindful lemon eye. . .
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She took a deep breath. Last night, she said, Who was the woman?
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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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Tater didn't like three things in this life: his daddy, his momma, and the stupid dog that chewed his jizzed on socks.
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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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—Mazel tov, schmazel tov!
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“I would like to keep my head, at least for a few more nights. Didn't you say we were gonna have sex one of these days? Isn't that in the manual?”
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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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Once again there's too much to handle and
no space to process
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I'm walking you / through Pere Lachaise
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I have enclosed a newspaper clipping so you can see I’m telling the truth. I’m in the picture on the far right, standing near a maple tree with my mouth wide open in a scream. On the far left is a rearing horse with one of the local farm kids on it,
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I contemplate the words that did not make it; the lost ones. The words deprived of their moment in the sun. These words. These words that are not part of the story.
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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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