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There were guitar players, and as happens with talent sometimes, the guitar players were too talented. There could not be places for all of them in a single rock band.
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In my dreams, I watch a sand shark sleep / on a coral bed
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Feelin’, feelin’ good, down-fallin’ down/rain, rain, rain came today,/wet alfresco alchemy
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heart-shaped stones
love, devotion
no way
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Meanwhile stars continue to surprise...
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161244
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"..squeezing her eyes and mouth tightly."
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More and more, as she watched him slide away from her in increments, she thought of that first summer together. How his searching hands would find her, any time of day, and pull her in for closer examination. How his eyes, his mouth, his tongue would set
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A delicate thrill buzzed my face.
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Sacrificial vic bleeds out . . .
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161212
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“Choices overwhelmed us,” Thomas continued, years later, “like waves crashing.”
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The Zone is a garden of skyscrapers. Every building is a model.
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161244
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Francesca is a sweet girl and everything, but her incessant doting on Paolo is best left private . . .
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161200
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What time is it? 3:47. Adam says before 5 is too early. Maybe he should stay home with our daughters once in a while. Let’s see him make it to 5 o’clock. It is Friday. I’ll mix it with orange juice. He never notices.
I better check on Debra.
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The strangest thing though was there were no people, everyone had vanished. No passengers, no train engineers, no busmen, not even any station attendants. I was alone. After checking a couple of doors and finding them locked I continued on along the plat
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Sitting on the couch when we got cable television, on that first day. Pressing buttons that sounded like the slap that your attention span would take as you made your way through the twenty, thirty, forty channels. As you grew older, the amount of channel
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Let's make a monetary enticement for writers who can revel in the magnitude of this tragedy...
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161211
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…like candy and puke on your tongue, the fakest broad ever, cruising like a busted prow, busted wheel, mast and stem, these stately wrecks and rotten flowers of perfume and the deadly bitchiness of the modern woman’s expectations.
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The world is crazy that way— two people close to me gone around the same time and I'm supposed to go on and on like those dryers and smile still and do my schoolin' still ...
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161212
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The world is always changing, even if it's in several eras at once.
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The woman in green doesn’t want to encounter the meter maid who is actually a man and so waits to one side at the newspaper racks as if purchasing a paper while that person writes the parking ticket (this city needs that money) and drives away in his li
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They often leave me dulled/
and wanting back my time.
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"I found a dead bunny one morning. This was about three weeks ago. Its tiny round pom-pom of a tail was missing."
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161131
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There was a hole in my tooth. It wouldn't let anything go.
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Scientists have discovered what I already did once on dope
way back in the Sixties.
There are so many other earths out there
that they are almost infinite.
Now in our other lives we have to
shuttle from planet to planet
reading our poems. And o
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We played synthetic derivative punk. We used Donald Trump tweets as lyrics.
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161111
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And in the end we're crouched over like children / sifting through this tide-pool
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John held up his pistol and racked the slide to chamber a round. He told me that he knew a few things. He knew I'd knocked up Nikki. His girl. He knew I'd taken Nikki to the free clinic in Gresham. He knew I wasn't…
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We deny one another, here,/
as long as it’s plausible.
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