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Well, yeah but no one that wasn't pointing a gun at me, mostly. I shot at a lot of people but there were only three times when I can honestly say I know that I blew someone away.
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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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Jody wakes some days with pieces missing.
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148353
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"... each of them stuck in one finger to sample the goods. Just then Katie felt a breeze on her bare legs. Her skirt literally moving."
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148232
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—So much for a cocktail at the tender hour of twilight, he told the empty beer bottle.
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148222
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Secretly she suspected she was really a witch. She didn't have green skin or scraggly black hair, and certainly no flying monkeys. Maybe those came over time, the more bad things you did, the more ugly you became until all the world could see how horrible
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1482105
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Two types coexist- the sanguine/
and exsanguinated./
My skin is cool/
and pale as moonlight
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1482109
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Only last Friday, he was introduced/
around, smiling, healthy,/
a fine young man.
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148221
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Looming ahead was another polite suburban party at which, after a couple of pops, I'd say something that embarrasses my wife in front of her girlfriends. Or so she claims.
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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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“They’re not gonna shoot him?” Rick cried.
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Endurance wears the soul thin.//
The hour to succumb ticks ever closer.
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148200
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His name is Rick Reynolds. His name is Steve Redford.
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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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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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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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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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The universe extracts no retribution./
It annihilates without a thought/
of evil/good, sin/virtue.
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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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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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They articulate my failings as a human being./
They articulate my greater rage at human beings//
here for such a short time and at the precipice already
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148155
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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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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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