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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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145486
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If I seemed disappointed after our conversation,
then, for the record, that was never the case.
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When you're scared to write badly, that's when you write. You are probably trying to tell the truth.
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I could hide away in this tower
But I am Rapunzel
And I will let down my hair
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Pinnacles
State Park
lying on our backs
stoned on hash
around a campfire
looking up at the
clear see-through
blue green stars
to the other side
of the universe
I know now
you are out there
I float up to
within 2
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145331
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There was a hole in my tooth. It wouldn't let anything go.
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145351
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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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145330
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Everything needs context, otherwise reality would be nothing more than stardust with a spark.
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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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145362
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The sting of a slap will be remembered, as will sex, or at least a fragment of it, such as the face of a man in your room who tied your hands with the belt of your plush terry bathrobe.
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145322
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Many years later, as the smell of charring straw filled the basket she was standing in, high above faces turned upwards to watch her fly, she remembered the night her fingertips brushed snow off the Alps.
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145372
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My vagina invites you to a party
Whenever your time frees up
Or now,
Now would be better
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No one has touched me for a long, long time and I believe that is why I am dying. This is a notion that is new to me but it has persisted over the last few weeks and I believe I finally have apprehended the truth. There was a time, I remember all too well, when I might…
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145333
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Much as the cockerel crows the break of day/ So, too, has our love similar herald,
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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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145331
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What follows is one of those moments, though to some people, it would seem a fantasy, perhaps a "Wizard of Oz" era tale.
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145354
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Many hours to make a brick: many bricks to make a curve.
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145300
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So this is what hate feels like. I glare at her, across the room standing there with him. Tall, blond, slender, perfect complexion, adorable smile, and bright eyes; and him and his lean athletic build, soft square jawline, charming smile, deep blue gree
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I smell it, it smells/Of giggles and leg shaking
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145332
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The combined smells of ocean breeze, grilled cheese sandwiches, incense and sweat and burning herb that wafted over from Shakedown, along with windblown notes from tinny car speakers all rolled into a potent sensory cocktail he hadn’t tasted in far too l
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145242
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Light youth
that
barely touches the
ground
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14521311
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He sat at the bar and waited for her. He looked at the noon drinkers with indifferent eyes.
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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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An old man in overalls with rags on his head known locally as Bo Peep made his way up from the black side of town to the white. After listening for a few moments, he shook his head in disgust. “Boy, you can’t play them blues.”
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They look like amateur beavers, all twenty-seven of them on their knees, gnawing through frosting bark. My wife is taking notes on a huge purple flower, listening to the kids as they shout out what tree corresponds to what flavor.
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The summer I turned fourteen I wanted a job so I could start saving for a car. Actually, I had a job, but it wasn't much. Seventy-five cents…
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My brother used to hang a pair of panty hose over his fireplace before Christmas. He said all he wanted was for Santa to fill them ..
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May 1890 Rifle, COLORADO Only pressure can change one thing into another. In terms of time, the…
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