1472 5 5
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i am either lacerated /or ill at ease / continually subject to gusts of life
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147200
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Azure was overwhelmed by white everywhere. Her eyes lost focus when she looked at the colors of Miri’s outfit, even her clothes.
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147276
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men sitting on stoops
women earning the rent
by working as servants
in the rich folks yard
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147230
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Naked American Apparel models romp with elk and antelope, and the Ghost of Richard Nixon directs traffic with the grace of a Wounded Hyena.
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147221
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Jill's number was flashing on Carol's caller ID. Jill, the baby sister she had practically raised after their mother died of a stroke when Carol was 12. It had been months since they'd talked. Jill had been avoiding Carol because Jill's idiot husband Mark…
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147261
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Fucking buffalo, the curse of the writer.
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147265
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While the head of the KKK stands by
for the next order, ready to mete out
punishment, and smoking a cigar.
They are so efficient, like ex-Nazis.
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147233
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I didn’t see the little boy run up to Bandit until it was too late. The kid was about four and was excited to see such a big dog. He reached out his hand to pat Bandit’s head and Bandit lunged at him. The leash was wrenched from my hand, leaving a bloody
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147294
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When it starts looking bad enough, I bundle up and head out the door.
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147222
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Starry, Starry Night
we slept, talked and did the nasty
where I, in innocence once
built a raft of driftwood
to take me twenty miles across
to the shore from which we ferried
escaping my Father’s demise
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147263
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It is not unusual to see Göttwigg with his shirt on inside out.
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147266
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We cook over the fireplace on these days, blacken marshmallows on straightened hangers, like Eskimos, dogs around a campfire.
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147221
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It is like truth on the battle field. Muted
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147244
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However could anyone get Joyce scholarship mixed up with physical anthropology?
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147266
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I sneak glances of her unhooking the clasp, taking it off, so that her back is bare, and I can see the muscles, the bones underneath move as she puts the new one on...
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147222
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“Why is there a gigantic sex toy sitting on your dining room table?” Mark asked recently. “That's not a gigantic sex toy,” I said. “It's a Wahl Hot & Cold Therapy Massager.”“Which is?” “An Advanced Pain…
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147212
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The world is always changing, even if it's in several eras at once.
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1471127
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This liberated you/
to grind me hard/
on the dance floor
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147110
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She took a deep breath. Last night, she said, Who was the woman?
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147100
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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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147151
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4th of July weekend, Woodland canyon, summer heat like the Garden of Eden, lush, green, secluded. She lay by the creek in a lounge chair under dappled shade from the sycamore trees, listening to the frogs jump and the birds sing, admiring the orange tiger lilies that…
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14711410
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The knees remind you: you are old,/
and broken, and unlikely to improve
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147151
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Nicole knows that Deirdre is winding up for the weekly pitch, practicing the line in her mind.
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14711211
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a human hand/
looks sadly/
naked now
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147143
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He sits, a large man with a walrus mustache, pondering a gold telegraph key.
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147121
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Mutiny is the last I remember.
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1471116
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Even in the fading light, it looked big enough to disembowel a man.
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147132
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147122
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Her eyes blaze through the green burka as her veil drops, revealing skull where face should be. Her teeth form a death grin, words pour from within, hollow like a baby's rattle. She speaks Farsi
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147100
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His name is Rick Reynolds. His name is Steve Redford.
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