1427 5 5
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Cockroaches in bed was the last straw. Alicia was sure she’d swallowed one in the middle of the night . . .
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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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I take her to the zoo, and the tigers get out. The little tigers, I mean. Cubs. Two of them.
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In a dream, he’s covered in masticated bits of paint and canvas and metal shavings and it keeps raining down until he’s buried and he wakes up with a yell.
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142653
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papaya over-ripe displayed on the half
with spoons sticking out -
” very ripe, tastes good “
blue crabs cooked with lavender
i was sniffing a spoonful when the chef came out
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142621
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...I am taut...my ankles ache...
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142621
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There is truth you can’t escape or say any other way and expect it still to be truth.
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142620
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
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1426147
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Follow the money. It seeks/
the lowest of the low and finds them here/
in an embarrassing abundance.
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The phone rings. The oven beeps./
The locomotive whistles and howls.
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1426146
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R just sent me a funny text:
Nice nice shit rainbows
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142644
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It was one of those weekday mornings in early spring when Marjorie and I could wander from chapel to chapter house with only security guards for company.
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142621
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It is like truth on the battle field. Muted
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perhaps because they were holding hands and sharing tears; perhaps because the moon shone so brightly; perhaps for no reason at all; but both the Coriander and Isabella felt a surge of hope so strongly that both smiled a genuine smile.
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142664
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bassackward/in the surreal/bathroom mirror
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142631
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Warning: Open and read before making any dumb-ass New Year's resolutions.
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Don and I return to Rasheed's room on the top floor of the middle house where Uzma sits waiting to speak her piece. I'm feeling blessed listening to their enthusiastic chatter. It's like the world is opening up to me again, allowing me to experience a rush of…
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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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“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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142622
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Marilyn turned the kayak away from the target ship, barely visible after all these years, toward the shallow waters by the shore. She recalled her father holding her hand at low tide, as she looked up at him and he told her…
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Nine sated elephants and an ass sit around a decimated Thanksgiving table discussing the state of the union over the hacked to bits carcass of a twenty-three pound turkey. Two years in to The Great Communicator's Lame Duck term and the nine elephants, whose…
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142544
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The man wore a bowler hat and stood on an open patch of grass, with a pyramid-shaped stack of baseballs at his feet.
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142532
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To him the younger women, contemporaries of the bride, all sounded as if they were breathing helium.
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Two types coexist- the sanguine/
and exsanguinated./
My skin is cool/
and pale as moonlight
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1. HeWomen's heads turned when Remy stopped in the doorway — as they always did. He noticed — as he always did — but paid no attention as he scanned the room. Too nervy to care. No sign of Fiona. Good. It paid to be the one doing the…
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142552
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I am not covetous for catnip,
Nor care where I sleep at night.
It irks me not who takes my
Favorite chair, or swats me off a table.
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Your usage of the English language / is awkward and passé—
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142544
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Originally designed for para-morticians and pre-professional undertakers, the Protocol has now been certified and approved for over-the-counter purchase and is completely safe (check local regulations for sales to minors: not approved for veterinary use).
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In my dreams I am cremated in the burning Library of Alexandria.
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Anyone thinking they aren’t alone on life’s journey has their head up their ass.
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