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Lanyards

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theme songs for concentration camps!?

Haiku for Jogging

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Haiku for Jogging

City

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Lorelei was bombarded constantly with it. She began to hate the city...

i dream

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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…

Scooping the Fat of Time

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I lift up my sweatshirt and reach with a full fist into my belly button. This is where the fat comes out.

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 60

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That is a pretty damning statement.

Lost Splendors

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“I have a theory,” she said on their first date, which was at an Indian restaurant where the music was a lovely singsong but the chef seemed enraged as he clapped a ball of dough between his hands, then threw it into the flames. And her date, whom she…

The Man in the coat

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A man wearing a dark green coat closed the door loudly. Tanu sat up straight, and stared at him. He looked around till he found her face and sat down in front of her.

Catalog of Backgrounds

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nowhere after nowhere

Non-Self: Light, Dark

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You gather their faces in the palms of your hands and their purple eyes blink, blink, unseeing.

Lavender, a Liberal

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Lavender, a Liberal Betty, batty from hormones, in a fanciful fit, named her daughter Lavender. Husband Don winced. Brothers Donald, John, Billy, and Tom were puzzled and pleased by this sister, this girl, who was a little bit like them, yet not like them at…

Tides

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Tides

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

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My first love was a woman of principle. Never deny your man was her motto.

You Can't Always Get What You Want

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I was tired and lonesome when I checked into another insufferable, shop-worn Holiday Inn. It was the only motel around with the internet — dial up only — in that little jerkwater town, Notmuch, Alabama. It was too late for a nap, so I jumped in the shower,…

Moriarty lets her hair down

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He did not hear her enter the room...

Saved

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I woke up pissed off—like that feeling you get when you take a long nap in the afternoon. Except instead of being on a couch or a bed, I was trapped in a mashed-up Honda on I-75.

The Old Man and The Lawyer

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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

Cryptsville USA

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pornographic bookmarks

One Foot in front of the Other

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And soon you'll be walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking

Wavering Faith

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Grady Quail wondered why God didn't just have another son

The Rats

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I climb up on the sofa and stand next to him. I smell something.

confronting the nonconfrontational

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You borrow words from platforms you could never build Borrow morals from a party gone sour

Capt. Love's Last Command (poem)

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The old man is dead, body propped in its cart like the dead El Cid strapped on his horse by Jimena to save Valencia, and yet...

Filter

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The brain taints everything it brings to us/ with its limited apparatus, its precepts,// all the things it thinks it knows.

She Frog

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She had a face like a frog: wide mouth, prominent eyes – and when she touched him, her fingers felt clammy on his skin.

Resolution

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Too often, Calvin's willful head finds its way into his hands.

heart-shaped stones

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heart-shaped stones love, devotion no way

Napomo 17: April 19 – 24

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There are no inspirations./ There are only the things I like/ and the much more numerous// things I do not like.

Speck in the Thrall of Cosmic Forces

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Fear the air and fear the fire./ Fear the land and fear the water./ Creation is out to get you, speck,

At Least There Will Be Plenty Implied

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Accidental suicide, though. Why, that could happen to anyone.