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It’s End of the World Karaoke at Big Daddy’s and Lara takes a photo of herself for Facebook before she goes on stage. She’s holding a basket of nachos in one hand and her phone in the other. After she takes the photo, she says, to Javier, “Hold these,” an
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The dead horse on CNN
was floating there
in the floodwater
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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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The next day we were sitting at that same outdoor café on the square, trying to savor a peaceful meal of duck plucked fresh from the Vltava River, when the very same waiter passed by and said, “Bet you wish you had some peeg now, no?” There were camer
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One minute Rudy was sitting up close to me, asking me how could Geppetto make a little boy out of a piece of wood, and the next, Steve was pounding up the stairs, yelling, "Carla, get blankets, warm clothes; we're leaving, we won't be back."
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As part of an online writers ”interview” series, I decided to deviate a little from the norm and do my first interview with our housecat, while I await my first ever conversation with an actual human.
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Black bugs are falling, fluttering down
like big, black snow flakes.
Two bugs, almost always,
sometimes only one.
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A person is entitled to what she thinks and feels. A person can have all the thoughts and feelings she wants.
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We keep a ruin of a house, but I suppose it's all right.
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The next moment is a convergence made from a single repeating sequence that disappears behind the voice that tells of it.
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My twin sister Ilene has recently taken up with a man named “Darrell,” who is a member of the Shriner's Fun Korps, a motorized paramilitary group.
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Happiness is the twin disobedience, to hear, to burn, to fret, desiring union. They shall touch flesh, bluish even, that elicited the happy city's sin. Why be silent? The untouchable nothing?
Let there be that place, a little swelling therein, which
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Two types coexist- the sanguine/
and exsanguinated./
My skin is cool/
and pale as moonlight
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Some people hate Waikiki. Not me. Most hotels had lounges with live music, either inside or around the pool. Evenings were spent bar hopping up and down the strip, Kalakaua Avenue. The bars stayed open till 4:00 a.m. It was safe to walk…
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A wave lifted me from my seat, scattering more drops of vomit around, and I thought nastily about bringing the motion sickness bracelets back inside, dripping bags in tow, to ask for a refund.
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He hates this body no less now/
than he did at 14 for its pudginess/
and the hair that can’t conform
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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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Like the swift night-black blue of a cormorant as it suddenly dips into a rush of white cold water,eyeing its possible food, we too sweepdown on what we think we see, rising wet sometimes with the reward,or hapless, dripping, we try again.
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You're so insecure; you probably think this story is about you.Well, you would be right.
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If something hurts enough/
you never forget it. Like the//
toothache when you first learned
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When it starts looking bad enough, I bundle up and head out the door.
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When his wife left him, a friend told him that resentments were like canceled checks. You weren't going to get your money back.
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I attended the burial of our affair when I found her notebook— maybe it should be called her diary—that she had foolishly left on the deck of my beach house where she stayed while I was on that short trip to Chicago. Numb at first, unsure how to proceed, I went…
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It starts on the Fallopian Speedway
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Pain is the saddle which rides me
Pain is the cowboy's gun
More morphing, please!
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Thank you for the flip book with the woman dancing, bird wing elbows, knees this way and that.
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Mayumi stepped back and watched the hand slowly slide along, guiding her to follow it. Her head turned until she saw Emi across from her.
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Betrayal of course is the great human crime. As I found out when . . . .
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The snow buzzes in the Ritalin air beneath Dairy Queen clouds
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