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Regarding Hank

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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.

The Sunlight of the Mind

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The nerves are birds that guide us to feeling the loop and lift of reverie.

Questions of Ownership

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Who owns the moon? What title search/ could ever make a claim?

Professional Pizza Patter

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We all stared, somewhat shocked and mostly disgusted.

Rock Band Days

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There were guitar players, and as happens with talent sometimes, the guitar players were too talented. There could not be places for all of them in a single rock band.

Exceeded

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I am exceeded / by a leaf

The Essence Of Story

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We all tell them/even when our mothers warned us only the Devil/tells stories

Bag

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No chance for Hallo, we sank into an unlit station doorway and he fumbled through my shorts.

ANSWER: (g)

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[CAUTION: READING THIS STORY COULD CAUSE IRREPARABLE "CULTURE SHOCK" AND IS NOT ADVISED FOR OLD FOLKS, PREGNANT WOMEN, OR THOSE WITH "MONSTROUS, FRAGILE EGOS"!]

Jenny Whistled Through The Mail Slot

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We all thought, Birds! We all thought, Nests inside the chimney!

The Commodore

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The commodore drives a 67 Caddy rag top All fin and boatish power

Five Million Yen: Chapter 40

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Ben was dreaming of sex with Claudia. But, in his dream, he could hear Dan Arris calling his name and pounding on a door. The fear of Dan Arris was pushing out the delights of Claudia.

Lord of the Poets

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I almost caught a poet today.

Using Proven Scientific Methods to Get Published

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I have a ninety two percent rejection rate.

Summer, 1966

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After my mother died, my father shipped me to my uncle's. He hadn't told me she was dying, so he could just mourn alone.Lena lived next door, Italian, my age -- which was ten -- beautiful. She was watched by goons in black suits. Her parents owned a restaurant. Across the…

~with every breath~

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she goes jogging with the feet of an angel the sound of crunching leaves like wrapping paper torn open to reveal an expensive doll and the light in her mother's eyes.

Catalog of Backgrounds

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nowhere after nowhere

Monday

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Always in a hurry/to spoil your/weekend

The Perfumed Kitten

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We named her Big Cat—I don’t know why. Maybe because she was already grown when we got her, unlike the kittens we’d seen in the pet store window that Dad wouldn’t let us have.

The Richter Sanction

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“Now,” my friend said. “Tell us about earthquakes. Can we expect one anytime soon?”

Hope's Amanuensis

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I was low on carburetor / oxygen and my fraud protection / had just expired.

Love's Hinterlands

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Sit down at night and stare into the fire. Consider if Cupid is just another liar.

Catching Mitt For Sadness

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He stops smiling and only says he loves me when prompted, as if asking me to pass the salt for his inner peace as it tastes too bland.

Dumpster

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When flash and bang merge you are, according to the manual, in deep do-do.

Study in Contrast

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But tonight while your finger glides across the glossy pages of Popular Science I hold a séance for the Holy Spirit in utter seriousness among the book clutter and crumpled manifestos in the basement

Otillie

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Shhh. I am here. Otillie Augustine, from Trieste, an Italian city to you, but when I lived it was part of Austria. Such things as who flies their flags over a city? Not so important after all, after all the losses and the victory speeches. These were not…

Marion and Carolee

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I never took more than a few pills at a time, just enough for a treat on Friday night.

How the Big Man Reigned

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I am fair game that will be hunted and eaten, cutting its edge with Satan's tears from six eyes.

Assiduity Eight

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no snippet tasting

Sort of Like Bukowski, But Completely Oblivious

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My eyes don’t close but hers are shut tight, and something inside tells me that to this girl, I could be absolutely anyone.