1116 10 8
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I never took more than a few pills at a time, just enough for a treat on Friday night.
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111642
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You want to get laid talking socks
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1116156
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As the other mammals go extinct,/
we can’t presume we are immune//
because of big brains and a history/
of belief in the control of nature.
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1116105
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Chuck woke when he smelled cooking.
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111522
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He grew up needing an enemy, his class warfare instincts kindled by the death of his father in the labor dispute and bolstered by the readings of Steinbeck, Lawrence, Sinclair and others, and the college-bound students who were particularly bothered by Pi
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111540
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blueberry tea and vodka on a Friday night
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111534
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She had a face like a frog: wide mouth, prominent eyes – and when she touched him, her fingers felt clammy on his skin.
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111584
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She loves you when your words leave her dirty, semi-transparent, at times, overexposed.
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111511
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1115159
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How they all beat the small drum/
of the word within the world
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111533
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Where we’ve penned heart shaped question marks, seeds sprouting bowed heads, a congregation of confused supplicants.
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111520
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Originally published on Six Sentences:In a family of many hushed secrets, only so many years could pass before the cracks would begin to show, and usually started with the creative girls. Though her aunt had been dead for two years, Shifra knew the cracks the family…
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111554
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What are our reigning philosophies today, what dominant schools inform and lead our intellectual efforts, inspire our blissful reveries, inflame our breathless humanity?
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111532
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^ through a busted window in this desert…
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111551
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I want you closeI want to feel youinside me,softening me untilmy borders are blurredand I'm hardly breathing,my heart swellingso big itbrings me to my knees,I want to know thepain of losing youeach time youclose your eyes andgo to sleep anddream of someone else,I want to…
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111511
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111520
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"Don't stab me with that," says John.
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1115108
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That TV you got me? Ruined. And the ionizer fan? Ruined too. All your clothes you left over here, all my work scrubs and weekend dresses too, soaked with that river stink water. I kept thinking bout all the dead creatures.
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111441
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"Now, here daddy was on the back porch at night talking with some man about leaving."
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111480
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"I found a dead bunny one morning. This was about three weeks ago. Its tiny round pom-pom of a tail was missing."
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111431
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He sees how he could release the duck, imagines it winging low over the water to where the others have made it safely.
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111420
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"We gotta find a way to get high!" "Shh! My parents will hear you Tommy! Their bed is right above us." …
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111422
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From my place, down here amongst the earth, we have many names for you.
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111400
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Damien, my boyfriend, talks me back to sleep when I wake up in the middle of the night, he doesn't judge me for being afraid of the dark, or being lost at sea, he simply listens to me breathlessly explaining why I'm awake— again— at 3:32 in the…
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111476
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Get comfortable with criticism
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11141711
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Neither of us thought of real winning. We set about brilliant losing, dark angel forms of luck and greed, the desire, the craving, the need to lose so strenuous that one wins; we tied at thirteen.
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111464
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...the knives she laid out on the porch before her husband left her, washed and dried, set neatly by copper pennies.
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1114117
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When Uncle Bob got sent to the Alzheimer's ward, the ladies licked their lips.
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111422
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I do not know the species of birds here. /
The two I see playing on the balcony at night /
I can never call back.
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111487
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Pale like a tracing of a memory
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