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I can't believe it's Frankie, but there he is at a table on the far side, just in front of the big picture window. I hold the menu close to my face and peek again over the top, watching as he reaches under the white linen tablecloth to plant…
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140342
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who can quite say/when careless talk & confidence/slips into that other charged thing/so minimal at first
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140300
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You shine brightest under a starlit skyThe moon reflects your beautyAs the wind sings your name sweetlyIt was under the heavens that we promised togetherThat I'll hold your hand and you'll be mine forever... You glow brightest when the sun is at its highestYour radiant…
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140342
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If this road could answer
I would ask her what it is like
to follow the path
of the rippleshimmery river
for too many miles
through the slowly ghosting towns
and the corncovered landscapes
of the dying Midwest
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140362
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140345
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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…
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140386
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The drop is like a hangman's drop, an executioner's, but farther and longer, perhaps three or four seconds.
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140321
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He and she are fucking while I watch. She's moaning deep desire and he's pounding flesh into flesh. I'm fully clothed, eyes attune to their fornication, studying. He comes inside of her; their bodies stiffen and then wriggle against one another. …
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what was she like you ask? smarter than me for instance she could type alot faster. and she didn’t worry constantly about being poor or having a family looking over her shoulder. maybe that’s what she did with boys. 17 years later and she is in my bed
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140321
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most interesting, i investigate all of this at 1:15 on a thursday morning and consistently contradict my assumptions while simultaneously validating them.
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140385
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—Jesus, that bastard has everyone in his pocket.
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140311
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Shirley stubbed her cigarillo out on a dead chunk of honeycomb.
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14021011
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I fall in love with a second cousin at the picnic. I make sure I sit next to her.
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140200
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I remember one time when we played strip poker in the basement of your house on Euclid Avenue, me, Terry, you and Andy. And I remember drinking lots of wine and fixing the deck so that you kept losing and having to take off all your clothes, and still you
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140230
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Roanne, just out of jail, went to cop. That is, she went to beg fat little Freddy the dopeman to front her once more. She'd have to fuck Freddy, of course, but, well, maybe he'd wait until after this time. Likely not…
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140232
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Michiko stood in front of Steinway Hall on West 57th Street.
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140200
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Bruce Springsteen begins singing from the loud speaker he was bruised and battered and couldn’t tell what he felt.
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140242
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The rain is filling up my shoes,
I can’t see
through my glasses,
Rain all inside me.
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140211
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Ten-year-old Bobby Akins learned that a shotgun shell struck on its brass end with a hammer can indeed take out the left eye of an eight-year-old brother observing the proceedings close by.
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1402115
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As air warms and warm/
winds stir, green becomes the force/
that surges the plains.
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1402158
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i hear the boom boom boom
in the room room room
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140262
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Speaking of stiff nipples, I heard you once wanted to become a painter, because of your fondness for nipples. Feeling like Gauguin and his little Polynesian women/girls, are we? So, you're going to try to out-paint God, are you, Mr. Sistine Chapel of the
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140273
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Sometimes you have to go wild; you have just to go fucking nuts. You do.
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140231
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140233
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two pairs of arms and legs
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140210
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She lay there, skin and bones, unable to speak. Little did we know those were our last moments togethter. How cruel for her, to want to share a lifetime of thoughts and feelings in those waning moments only to be robbed of the chance. My brother and I…
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140288
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Always in a hurry/to spoil your/weekend
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140254
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If you are a family member or friend of a person incarcerated in a correctional facility...
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140221
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She continued to cooperate with a city council agenda dominated by globalized privatization
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