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She remembered how cold it was in the factory that day. A few of the high windows stood open as usual, necessary for ventilation when the machines were all running, when the concrete floors were packed with the sweating bodies of warm human workers. The
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Then it started extruding tendrils and tying them all into intricate knots.
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A life in NYC was one I always dreamed of but I found myself turning into a bitter, sarcastic person who was losing the ability to see the silver lining in just about anything.
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The first days of October are ordinary in the way that milk just hours away from spoiling is ordinary milk. You can baptise your cornflakes with it, but part of you knows the whole thing is just shy of almost right.
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I climb up on the sofa and stand next to him. I smell something.
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An excellent plan. Just like old times.
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Let me swim into your eyes. Let me show you my world. My album. My Albania. My albumen.
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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.
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Scientists have discovered what I already did once on dope
way back in the Sixties.
There are so many other earths out there
that they are almost infinite.
Now in our other lives we have to
shuttle from planet to planet
reading our poems. And o
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When I slip through the seams I return to the same place.
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The blaring scream from my alarm clock suffices as my wake-up call. It disrupts me from my dream state that I so rarely get the privilege to experience any more. I've always loathed that alarm clock, so I turn it off in the most sensibly aggressive manner I know how: just…
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I was, so I was told, the product of much hard work and a lot of invasive procedures. Initially, I'm sure my parents were making love, but then came the slog, the repeated failed attempts at getting one of mother's millions of eggs fertilized. Those tadpoles just couldn't…
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x ≥ ponds rise beyond where you & i have stood
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Chromio citrio sticky-floored furio...
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My Thursday head belonged to a former Miss Brazil named Rita.
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It was an eagle in the waves
Those eyes make no mistake
Especially from a mile high
Blue fish and tuna
Too dumb to run
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She continued to cooperate with a city council agenda dominated by globalized privatization
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Rogue sits bedside in Jello Biafra’s hospital room.
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I do not know the species of birds here. /
The two I see playing on the balcony at night /
I can never call back.
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Wherever you decide to grow
Please remember to ask the dirt
‘Am I still dust’
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The rocking chair will bite your toes.
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"I have consulted the Internet," the man remarks, squatting low, sorting through a mountain of tablets. He snags two and stands slowly, confidently, and I realize suddenly that he is Moses. Two iPads, cradled surely in each wrist, glow with lists.
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In the diffuse light of early morning you wear a sweat suit maybe and stand in front of a model-kitchen counter in a model-home kitchen
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they flew down the slopes
with her holding on
for all she was worth
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Your stepsisters send their love. All three are still on the wagon.
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If you are a family member or friend of a person incarcerated in a correctional facility...
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