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Two types coexist- the sanguine/
and exsanguinated./
My skin is cool/
and pale as moonlight
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“They’re not gonna shoot him?” Rick cried.
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we name invasive species,
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148285
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What fascinates me now is now, this instant, this moment. This fugitive, this delinquent, this indiscreet, this forever elusive now. Now now. Now is now and now it is not now. Now is the adversary of time.…
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When it starts looking bad enough, I bundle up and head out the door.
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148263
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It is not unusual to see Göttwigg with his shirt on inside out.
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Now Ninalee gets up from the table. She starts to put some snacks in a bag for Janny and Benjie, and some storybooks in there too, to read to them in the park: books about trains, mostly, and there’s one with a bus and one with a car...
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How many shadows in your soul? Close your eyes, my love, let me / make you blind as the wings of a drenched, drowned bee.
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148288
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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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148198
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Just beyond the corkscrew slide / the President of Egypt was bleeding to death
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148173
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My, but how that girl loved to defenestrate! I shall ever be grateful for my obstinacy with never living more than a single story above ground level.
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148145
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His daddy died in his sleep. Went to bed one might and never got up.
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1481119
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The universe extracts no retribution./
It annihilates without a thought/
of evil/good, sin/virtue.
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148167
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These little things, they are the hopes We were waiting for, they are everywhere. I made this one just for you. Call them feathers. Call them roses. You'll always See them if you need them. These Little things carry the good news…
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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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Only last Friday, he was introduced/
around, smiling, healthy,/
a fine young man.
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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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148198
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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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Endurance wears the soul thin.//
The hour to succumb ticks ever closer.
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His name is Rick Reynolds. His name is Steve Redford.
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Gert sat in the car and wiped at the inside of the window while the defroster blasted at full strength. The shards and slivers of ice that networked across the windshield were just thick enough to hinder visibility. Bane wrenched the door open and shoved
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Until the ivy hides me in
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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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This story* is brought to you by
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The room turns red and I start screaming and ejaculating. The whole class is watching as Mr.Smith slams down my copy of the test with his right hand and swiftly tears off my penis with his left.
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148163
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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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Underwater your eyes collapseand your feet touch decayed leavesand soft sand at the lake's bottom, the texture of tenderized flesh,maybe an intestineYou spring to the surface tofind your skull met by waterflies, and their limbstweak your peaceOn the shore your…
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