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The outside world will intrude . . .
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1071117
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... his skin glistened
like a sharp blade
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107177
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I remember the first & only time I parachuted it was 1964 my 16th birthday a rite of passage if you will from the old man an aerospace engineer & former WWII B24 bomber pilot I practice-jumped from oil barrels taught how to fall back then when the time came…
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107151
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Darkness was fast approaching. I stuck out my tongue at Naya, and she reached out as if to grab…
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107185
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For you I bring the circus, I reinvent
the shine
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107185
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—Jesus, that bastard has everyone in his pocket.
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107144
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“Kids okay?” I didn’t mean anything by it–it would have been innocent small talk any other time–but he took up the suggestion.
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107100
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Ever since they switched from paper scripts to the little rubber balls branded with code I have been inundated with sickness.
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107042
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Anatoly Gringovitch took a swallow of beer, thoughtfully put the cap on his Ferrari da Varese custom fountain pen, and launched into his story:
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107010
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and we got the apartment, which was on a street that backed up on an alley situated, as it turned out, right across the alley from the very first Hari Krishna house, where they would wake up at four every morning and begin their maddening chanting: Hari K
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107000
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This tanka poem was inspired by news report that the Macy's of "Miracle on 34th Street" fame has a white Santa in front and a black Santa in back.
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107061
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Why do I love you? The monster that you are?
I love you for revealing to me my strength
My determination, my will
My need to survive
I love you for showing me the gift that is living
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My head is nailed to yesterday.
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107043
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Don't throw earth on bones.
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The first and easiest reason was that he never hit me. Well, if he never hit me, then how could it possibly be abuse? Never mind the threats to stab me in the neck. He was only angry. He really didn't mean that. Never mind he restrained me, or cornered me
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107011
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Her ghost/kept coming back/to Hamlet
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I saw it coming from five feet
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107063
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I looked down at Earth and imagined this porn star who’d asked for my help.
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107011
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I'm not hungry now
The darkness swallows me as they eat.
I'm starving now
With a pain I can't defeat.
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107032
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my fingers vibrate magnetic/
a humming void/
where my brain was
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106900
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During the hangover, I crawl to my desktop computer and then Google “rapid STI testing” and “speedy divorce”
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106963
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Her boyfriend is into U.S. presidents and professional wrestling. He is reading biographies of both occupations and says this helps him to appreciate gray area, decisive action. Lives of great men, he explains.
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106985
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"the dark velvet slide of the tongue."
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Once you descend, the third rail/
hums its invitation
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I had ink for blood then and “the news” was my oxygen.
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When I rolled him under the bed, I thought I would sweep him out later with arms curled up like legs beneath the shells of cicadas I used to gather from the laundry porch and set on the kitchen counter to scare my roommates. At least, I did that until…
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A powerful song is often a result of imaginative storytelling through a unique “voice” and pitch-perfect musicality.
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