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I'll strip off the skin down to the begin again.
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When sixth-grade science teacher Pat Farrell assigns an earth-science lab on measuring crystals, the girls collect their materials, read the directions and follow the sequence from beginning to end. The first thing boys do is ask, “Can we eat this?"
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I felt the most afraid I’ve ever felt in my life, like all the unknowns in the universe were rushing through me at once.
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in her bedroom, opening night of his solo show she is snapping her nylons to center the seam stretching from her toes to where the line disappears into the hem of her dress.
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The bar was dark and a little dirty, and that suited Splinker's mood just fine.
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and pressed an area
on my forehead
between my eyes
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She could see him doing these things but she could not hear him.
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Before I grew used to it
I would wake to the sound
of the Amtrak whistle
echoing down along the tracks
behind our trailer park
and wonder who was hurtling where
through the dark night and across
this wide Illinois prairie
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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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With their brightly-colored bits of
found string
woven into the walls of their nests
to teach their baby birds
what the worms of the future
will look like.
Somewhat like the
cave paintings of Lascaux
for early man in France,
when hunti
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The young man pulls out his wallet, grabs a couple of bills and stops short of handing them to the bedraggled man. “So how do I know you’re not going to go out and buy some crack with this money?”
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I’m casing the place; my boyfriend Jimmy is about to bust in and rob the store.
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There was no provision for keeping the post on the door, but I did not have the fingernails to pry it off.
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Oh my god - A plagiarizing pony - I know someone must have said that before
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I'm in the boardroom, downtown in San Francisco. I don't even remember showing up for work today. I hope they fire me, just like they fired Bill. Well not exactly like that, that was awful. He was caught downloading a phenomenal amount of…
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"You gonna be old before you're old," my father had told her.
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Before the railroad tracks are blown off by the wind, the wall tiles morph to trace 34th Streetwhile a silver balloon emerges from the end of the tunnel. A child’s hand reaches out for the gleam and she, the woman in a black-dress with a mandarin collar,
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Regret takes the shape of little clouds ...
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"Give it to me I said, you dip! Fork it over!"
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He bought damaged and used sex dolls online.
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On a street-lit night in Jeddah.
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The faces of the sun remain unaltered across the
seven day forecast.
I am sweat-glued to a poem, looking up at the
wall-mounted TV in a diner in the Valley
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years later, she won’t go near the trees
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My sixth grade teacher used to tell us all the time about how being poor is nowhere near the same as living in poverty.
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Lorelei was bombarded constantly with it. She began to hate the city...
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he wanders the house/ crying for the hairless tomcat/ (gone for the night/ on an overnight job).
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I could still feel you like horseradish / in the hairs in the back / of my nose
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The capsules tumble around, one of them plinking against the crown in my upper-right jaw. I hate the crown… a mute reminder of the first time Brad hit me. Swallowing the capsules, my tongue probes the left side of my mouth, finding the other two crowns…
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It is midnight in Utah, but I can’t tell. It always looks like midnight in a cave.
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