1525 9 7
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Never mind that they cost millions per year just to amuse the monkey bone in us all or that they spew pollution or that their only real purpose is murder. They are justified by skill and thrill.
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152541
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The next moment is a convergence made from a single repeating sequence that disappears behind the voice that tells of it.
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152565
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Infinity occurs as an afterthought, for discoverers like Columbus as for countries like America.
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152432
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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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15241710
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Another new spring and the leaves
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152432
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152453
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The skinny one was kinda cute. He had this little mole over the left corner of his mouth that she just wanted to suck. She kept watching it go up and down as he talked, the way his full lips kept spreading and coming together. She really wanted to kiss…
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15241312
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Let's say maybe you're in a place your mind has never left, and let's say maybe it's Mississippi, and let's say maybe it's summer with kudzu throbbing green all around you, and let's say maybe she's a Sagittarius girl, standing in that driveway with her young breasts…
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152442
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...it's about female needs, Rex.
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152461
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Fucking buffalo, the curse of the writer.
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1524138
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Now, if someone is tellin' you that she had a date with Edgar Allen Poe, you might be tempted to say, "Hey, sister, what kind of drugs you be doin' for the last two days?" But I swear on my Aunt Boo's chastity belt that's what went down and with my…
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152431
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It's always dark. You catch me by the wrist just as the ferris wheel starts up again and pull my shoulder out of its socket towards you. I resist, feigning hatred and pain, but I don't feel anything except your hand on my arm hot and scalding lighting my skin, a…
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152463
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It is not unusual to see Göttwigg with his shirt on inside out.
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152432
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“There is no future in art,
you will not change lives
with flowery words.
Please don’t rock the boat”
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152433
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He had a simple dream: He wanted to become a star, and not one of those tv stars because those die, those die all the time, and before dying they usually become terrible shadows of their former selves, vile creatures who exploit their own former glory...
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152432
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They watched the seven o'clock news.
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152411
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Charlie's recurring fantasy emerged from its hiding spot as he finished his fourth Old Fashioned. He'd be on his back; she'd be astride him. A strong, assertive young woman with her hands planted on his chest and her hair falling forward over her face.
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152376
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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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1523109
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Only last Friday, he was introduced/
around, smiling, healthy,/
a fine young man.
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152321
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...I am taut...my ankles ache...
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152398
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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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152321
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Jill's number was flashing on Carol's caller ID. Jill, the baby sister she had practically raised after their mother died of a stroke when Carol was 12. It had been months since they'd talked. Jill had been avoiding Carol because Jill's idiot husband Mark…
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152355
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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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152300
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"Holy shit. Holy shit holy shit holy shit..."
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152310
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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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1523108
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Unreasonable anger, Each hour prescribed
The house haunted
with good intentions,
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15231710
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I packed food for a lifetime, clothes and boots, all the guns, and the audio of our poetry...
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152362
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So I lopped off his head and reworked the creation...
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1523105
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Chuck woke when he smelled cooking.
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This liberated you/
to grind me hard/
on the dance floor
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