1377 6 3
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". . those incandescent secrets she would
pepper in. The sister who ran away."
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137653
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1376158
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Go diddle in the sand//
to save some other sinner/
a death of stones.
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137642
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The convalescent home's common areas are surprisingly well-appointed, given the neighborhood, which makes his actual living quarters that much more dismaying. Poorly lit, dusty, stifling, the room reeks of socks worn for weeks on end. My nostrils burn, and my eyes…
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137687
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Study decay, says the Queen of the Underground.
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137600
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[WE'LL LET *YOU* BE THE JUDGE!]
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137633
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Tell me everything about yourself, if I could care, I can pretend, let me pretend.
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137610
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Another noise, softer than the first: swish, thud. You are still. The house is very loud tonight.
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137633
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“Sandy likes the way Bob spanks, when he’s done she gives him thanks."
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137631
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137665
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(the hourglass has not gone digital, oh no,/but these days, silicon is in with the sand)
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137655
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I think the Air Force Colonel must have known, from the flushed looks on our faces, that I had just fucked his daughter in a roadside patch of ragweed on the way to their house somewhere outside Danville. I remember looking back and forth between him and
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137611
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My grief is made up of
Demons fighting to
Claw their way first
Out of my eyes
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137621
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Grady Quail wondered why God didn't just have another son
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137632
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For a time he documented his facial expressions.
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137674
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It starts on the Fallopian Speedway
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137641
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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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137500
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When she got back to Claire's, she was hammered and she had no idea what time it was, what day, or, frankly, what planet. It was the first time she'd been that drunk in years. The last time she could remember getting even close to that wasted was at a Christmas party right…
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137521
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Loaded on acid, Billy blatzed into a 7-11, holding his dick like he hoped the store guy would think the thing was an Uzi. The guy laughed and pulled out a .38 Special and the cops carted Billy to jail. …
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13751613
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A woman with fallen breasts is attempting to hang her laundry on a string. Two tall men mount horses and ride them into the meadow. A squad of children wrap themselves around a playground.
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137542
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Stars fat as the stars that Van Gogh painted on his easel in Arles, a ring of candles burning on the brim of his hat. Stars that fill the night with delirium.
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1375117
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respect your parents. or not.
stay put. or not.
finish school. or not.
get married. or not.
stay married. or not.
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137522
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Smoke from the oil lamp traced the wall. It gave Nana something to read.
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137554
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Lindsey and I are both talking loudly about things we would never talk about in real life, under the impression that this is all somehow instructional for Di. But I think it's really more about us. Di gives us an excuse to talk like two people unjustifiab
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137562
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She is trying to quit—nasty habit this smoking. Still, this is the only time she lets herself smoke these days: Laundry day.
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137521
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His voice isn't familiar but his words are. He says he knows we haven't spoken in years and apologizes for it. I can hear him pacing on the other end of the line, tapping things and then a shriek of glass shattering. Really, I tell him, no need to…
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13751311
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I was always more comfortable with the ponies than you were / more comfortable with betting windows and two-dollar bills than you were
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137500
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my second language / to silence / plainsong of / the breast
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137584
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. . . with reference to the Compass of Discourse
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137543
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The first of the fires that started by the river in the abandoned mills were so hot they burned white and pale blue
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