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It was hard, in the crowded vacation house,
to make love as they would have alone.
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My grandmother is magnificently breasted in her floor-length nightgown.
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You think I don't know, that's your whole stupid problem. You don't believe in anyone. You must enjoy living in a dark lonely universe. I don't know if you know or not about the lights that live in your own head, but I believe …
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I’m decades in and it hasn’t gone away.
In all other respects, I am normal. Life
is hard, but I’m not complaining. The thing
is, I am in a constant state of falling.
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149665
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Infinity occurs as an afterthought, for discoverers like Columbus as for countries like America.
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The world is upon us. The only thing that matters Now is if you are willing to be seen by them. Many moths Will be hidden by simply gathering on the bark Of the one tree, but this will not sustain you if you Do not also have the courage…
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I am a human resource, batteries not included
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Look out your window and know that the universe conspired to craft the sunrise for your morning tea, the mug clasped in hand, the light bouncing from the balcony railing. The empty seat next to you will always be filled
and I will never properly thank y
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I had never seen anyone die. For first time in my life, I was afraid, even more than when my step-dad got drunk and roughed me up. When Dale Franklin got shot last year standing on the corner outside the laundry-mat it took the ambulance forty-five minu
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149598
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Just beyond the corkscrew slide / the President of Egypt was bleeding to death
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149500
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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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149566
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Divine guidance. That's why Dad used a blowtorch to set the jug on fire, its contents the “Devil's elixir.”
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served as it is/
among these friends.
The frayed filaments/
tickle my chin and irritate my nostrils,
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There were only six passengers aboard the small ferry...
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149542
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...it's about female needs, Rex.
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149565
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just another torn & burning journeyflag for the rebel heart. All we know forsure is that dancing among the toads andcrickets takes a bit of courage. Beauty takesreal living guts these days. Laughing takes guts,too. Living takes love. Love is feeling. What'dyou think I…
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We now live in post-Postmodern Absurdist fear of course, says our smiling Prof. That’s the price we pay he tells us. . . .
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The slicing is easy. Blade barely touching skin, flesh separating into two clean parts. A breath, and blood fills in the space, an old friend materializing in the shadows. I am redolent with hope and desire. I can't stop thinking of how he excised himself from my…
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149563
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You say we will go together to the park and dig a shallow grave and atone for everything we ever did by breathing soil deep into our lungs, and the wolves will leave.
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Even if you're doing it together, there's no unity when everyone's dancing to their own tune.
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The goose on the roof isn’t aware it is doing anything odd...
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Whatever innocence Michelle had brought to the game was long gone, even the part where she dreamed she was the star of a righteous, asskicking movie.
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149534
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They were just boys, the Nazis I mean, young in their twenties, not much older than my brother Cyril.
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1495219
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Polite society will cheer/
as another body is discovered//
and disposed of. The cheers/
will drown out the gasps
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149451
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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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She hasn't called me in days. Before calling her, I search my memory for something romantic to say. Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 says exactly what I'm thinking. But she doesn't need to hear it. She already knows, as all human efforts come to an end, my core energies are tapering…
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Either it was rescue--if the customer was alive to be found--or recovery, the term for bringing out the dead.
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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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