1487 5 3
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He can become anyone. If he wants. He'd rather not but it's not his choice.
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Swatches of Chinese silk in vivid red and lavender fly through the air. My granddaughter in her mid-thirties reaches for the cloth. I see in her mirror a shape forming; a slim, gray haired woman with a spring in her step. I pause to admire my reflection and pass over the…
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Treasure that first love. And that first heartbreak. Don’t let it be the last thing.
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It ain't the steak, it's the sizzle.
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148653
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It's 2am. The wind is moving at speed, whipping gently the tree branches, and their leaves rustle simultaneously to create a audible sound, like hands flipping through sheets of paper, or that feeling you get on your fingertips when going across a textured surface. I'm…
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We didn't know him from Adam...
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The new king hunted often. We heard her whirring above, the terrible whirring a forest of—, and she drifted over our city half dangling from the chopper, rifle barrel glinting.
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We’re lucky it/
was chunky spew,
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148621
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She also castrated her cat. All by herself...with her Swiss Army Knife. And not with the blade either.
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148621
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As the jughead turned with a humph the old man muttered, "what a jerk." The jughead spun around and glared at the young black man and said, "Did you say that?" The old man laughed, raised his hand, looked up at the jughead and said, "I did." The jughead t
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148654
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My wife says you can tell the crooks from the cops from the cowboys at the taco truck across the street.
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148664
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x ≥ ponds rise beyond where you & i have stood
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148665
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I left the train, still going nowhere, but in a hurry.
Still a boy, but trapped in a suit.
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1486106
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Here comes my speed dealer
he's riding shotgun in the open
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148564
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We played synthetic derivative punk. We used Donald Trump tweets as lyrics.
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148564
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i dream a thousand interconnected pictures. i dream the future. i dream we are together. i dream i love you. i dream i am forgiven. i dream you care. i dream nice dreams. i go to the bank. i deposit my check. i pay the rent. i pet the cat. i…
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148510
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Desire stirred into the liquid reveals
Cold ice smoking colder,
As you pipet these channels of my heart.
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148532
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What I did I wouldn't call criminal, just stupid. Even my judge, after so many court appointments, didn't understand what had happened. And there's a reason I got out on illegal sentencing but, either way, I paid the better part of a year for it all. I don't want to tell…
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148554
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If you can imagine a ghost taking a shower then you can imagine the kind of emotion I have in mind.
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1485106
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We bought a grand piano at Steinway Hall after 9/11, chased uptown by the dust of death and awakening from dreams of miniature jumpers stuck in the icing of white wedding cakes
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148535
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at nightthe mannequins leave their glass prisons and hunt owls in the forest***sometimes they dance a slo-mo tarantella in a clearingbone-white …
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148573
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Look around you, see what you have built.
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148565
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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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148500
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Josh was having a hard enough time getting through his final year of studies without having his sister point out his fledgling love life to his parents.
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148532
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I separate my thoughts into two / camps
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He trembled as she splayed open his palm...
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148442
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Before I grew used to it
I would wake to the sound
of the Amtrak whistle
echoing down along the tracks
behind our trailer park
and wonder who was hurtling where
through the dark night and across
this wide Illinois prairie
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148476
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"It was John-Darren who once told me that he felt sorry for women."
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148461
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I'm not dying. What is it called if you think you might have Hypochondria but you really don't? I'm worried that's what I have. Is it cold in here? Or is it me, dying?
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