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No pain is private. How can it be?
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136044
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The wooden man came to her in a cloud in a vision in a dream in a story. When he spoke, his tongue clacked against his teeth.——As soon as she woke up, she knew the wooden man was in her belly. She felt heavy with him, fatigued. All she wanted to eat was…
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136011
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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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blackberry pie and huckleberry wine and litte Maria with her summerset bangs
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136021
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"That zit on your forehead just won't go away, will it, sweetie?" she adds as she brushes her daughter's bangs downward.
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I have known a head become / a callus, matriculate, stop / shaving, move to Vegas
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135995
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I recalled the one night stand I'd had with the girl one balmy summer night in Minneapolis. We lay on my bed in the moonlight, and I touched the nipples of her tiny breasts with the thumb and pinkie of one hand.
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135965
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Certain disorders lend themselves to poetics.
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1359107
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Dreams / of being a millionaire are replaced by dreams / of being a billionaire
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135933
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I know who done it. Them goddamn taters. I walked around the yard and started picking up pieces of the camaro, wondering if, from above, they’d laid the parts out into some kinda cult symbols or something.
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135965
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When I slip through the seams I return to the same place.
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By fiddling with the time space continuum and mixing in liberal quantities of quarks from his "Li'l Bang Dimensional Digester", Larry created an entirely new universe in his garage. This was a flagrant violation of Cosmic Law. It could not be ignored, nor
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1359138
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Now, if someone is tellin' you that she had a date with Edgar Allen Poe, you might be tempted to say, "Hey, sister, what kind of drugs you be doin' for the last two days?" But I swear on my Aunt Boo's chastity belt that's what went down and with my…
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In and out of morphine dreams, he flies through the unfinished roof of Illinois sky. Below, matchbox-sized farm machines. A silo becomes his father's thermos, the silver-capped tower from which he stole sips at ten, his first secret. Back …
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By the time I was born, my parents were already sickened, blackened, blighted people.
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135900
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Won't speak a word against 'em. Car trunk stunk like bad chicken long after, but I won't speak a word against 'em.
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135952
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Your stepsisters send their love. All three are still on the wagon.
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135942
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A is a hole in the series of letters, each of which is also a hole in the series of letters.
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Dandelions wither as I approach and the grass dies under my feet.
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I climb up on the sofa and stand next to him. I smell something.
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It starts on the Fallopian Speedway
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135997
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This is a nice illusion, here with you. The world Is meant to fill your eyes. You remind me of Everything right now. This is a nice illusion, here with You. It's all morning light. The wind playing with your Hair lifts my spirits, too. Seagulls…
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135900
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Over by the swimming pool singing - Hey hey it’s okay - A line from a song he heard - On the stereo when we were driving in the car - On the way to sign the papers to get - His grandfather released from the hospital
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“Now,” my friend said. “Tell us about earthquakes. Can we expect one anytime soon?”
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135864
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French citizens. The friends were all citizens of a half-assed France. The friends were all half-assed citizens of a French stance. Carol was more American, more eggnog, more cream-of-wheat. She represented dull victory.
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When the dark shadows of his limp eyes told us life was slowly seeping away, stolen by his stroke, his wife signed the “DO NOT RESUSCITATE” order and, tearfully leaving the room, she turns, asking a final question, “Think a needy family could use his…
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135831
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"Look Emily, I’m charging your solar powered calculator and helping you relieve your dependence on foreign oil."
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135821
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Looming ahead was another polite suburban party at which, after a couple of pops, I'd say something that embarrasses my wife in front of her girlfriends. Or so she claims.
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“You haven’t been listening, have you.”
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