1514 7 6
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Now, this boy removed his socks in front of me, on the chair beside my desk where I read my books, and said: “My toenails aren’t shaped properly.”
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1514119
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Listening is loving.
What is more erotic than
these fathoms, skeins, words,
roping tight the ardent ear.
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151400
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“Well in opposite heaven every time you make scrambled eggs the shells break into a million pieces, then you spend eternity picking them out of the yolk.”
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151300
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Tent City has gone quiet. There is a deadline. I heard it on the news. I’ve never thought about the word before. How in this place it means what it means.
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1513148
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The alphabets will disappear.
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151342
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Light youth
that
barely touches the
ground
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151320
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The gentleman is discreet, but his eyes wander from his paper at intervals as we travel together from London to Manchester. We happen to be on the same train and he happens to be sitting opposite me. I happen to be a size 34C.
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15131613
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151322
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We do the work of fixing people like him?
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151361
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Once was when we were in Vegas on layover from L.A., I told her I thought we should go to the Elvis Chapel and get remarried.
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151344
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It was one of those weekday mornings in early spring when Marjorie and I could wander from chapel to chapter house with only security guards for company.
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151342
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He arrived at Bellevue hospital in a straight jacket bound to a gurney.
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151330
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It's cheap beer, but cold
you welcome that rushing hiss and the following
long drink of chilly wetness washing away
the parched, dust dry, cotton mouth
of grave-digging in the desert sun
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1513138
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Treasure that first love. And that first heartbreak. Don’t let it be the last thing.
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151341
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It's come down to this: you're a grown man afraid to face his own son. For the past few years there has been tension;…
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151333
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I immediately felt anxious guilt, being the one responsible for opening the way for infection.
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1512179
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A young girl wavering between celibacy and punk mother-lust despair came to visit us each night
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151253
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The bar was dark and a little dirty, and that suited Splinker's mood just fine.
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15121211
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I've got an appointment to see my shrink next Wednesday. She's pretty sharp. Not bad looking, either.
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1512108
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you drove by the woman standing on the verge the woman with the shoulders of a long distance swimmer and you told yourself her story: she'd slept in the wiregrass she carries…
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151222
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Sounds terrific, but are there any strings attached?
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151231
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Alcohol and American writers have always had a connection–about 70 percent of American winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature could be considered heavy drinkers if not more.
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1512115
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In the darkness, as I awaken, an orange glowing 3:45 greets me . . .
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151283
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First of all, there was no snow. I seem to remember that. And there was no Christmas tree in the house.
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151288
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I caught her a-feasting with her eyes and smilin' at that Jesus- haired Waffle House cook, Dennis Roy, again and I said, “Merlene, my tiny kitty-kat, they's no reason to carry no torch for him ‘cause he may not be with us very long ‘cause, if you notice, they's no…
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15122311
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We deny one another, here,/
as long as it’s plausible.
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151253
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In his dreamlike state the pianist turned into a preying mantis.
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151264
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He injected her with a sedative to keep her still. He projected himself into her narcotic dream, a small bar with tango playing from a jukebox. They were dancing.
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151252
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Your stepsisters send their love. All three are still on the wagon.
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151221
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I'll strip off the skin down to the begin again.
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