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I was watching the bustling crowd below, sipping on a teacup full of Victory Gin when the scream, no a howl, cut through the murmuring of footsteps and telescreens.
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“Okay,” I say, “but my point is the only way you’d ever know if someone really loved you is if they put their life on the line when it counts. Otherwise you gotta take their word for it.”
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Uzma dashes up the stairs ahead of me . . .
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He painted a woman on them, identical to the woman that kneeled by his bed.
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I didn't feel when you cut out my spine I'd been throwing up all night couldn't even smell the rust …
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A cheap pocket knife was the only sharp I carried in my backpack and they allowed me that. The man with the pot tattoo on his neck said, “All of us here needs some type of knife. You gotta cut up your food. We don't…
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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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I learned how to fall in love, in one hour, watching The Waltons. John Boy fell in love with Jenny. Jenny fell in love with John Boy. It taught me the right way to fall in love. It taught me the right way to let love go. I was 12 years old. It was a lesson I…
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The woman lit a cigarette and sat on the edge of the bed, crossing one leg over the other. She took a long drag, tilted her head back, paused. Her eyes flicked to the NO…
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This was the anniversary of the chairs. He would celebrate tonight for the chairs, and the chairs would welcome him.
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The parrots woke Eddie up. That and Rocker snoring in the twin bed. A thousand parrots flying over the motel? They squawked, God how they…
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your light is gonna
last me
through the week
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In a field of barley, I see you, ...
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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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They could occupy the space//
left by creatures larger and more/
evolved.
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If there was another way to describe emptiness, I'd word the endlessness of the sky, of the ocean at low tide.
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Breathe a stench of Eton musk...
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the stars might be the audience or they might not be
if the beat sits right next to me and hugs me nasty
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By the sixth - Dizz, Falstaff buzzed - Croons - The Wabash Cannonball
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—Jesus, that bastard has everyone in his pocket.
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Blue skies greet us as we exit the forest . . .
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[VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.]
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The brain taints everything it brings to us/
with its limited apparatus, its precepts,//
all the things it thinks it knows.
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Slipping into the Sydney Harbour Tunnel like a nocturnal creature fleeing the light, tears stream down my cheeks, spilling from my lips, the pain too great to care about self-preservation. Drunk still, hands clenched, I strain to focus on the world fading into a blur of…
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At 11 pm, it is 87 degrees and I sit in front of the air conditioner, eating oatmeal. The oats aren't soft enough, but it is sugary and fills me. Outside, the city hovers at the edge of a brown out, people sweating hopelessly inside small boxes. In Utah, it was cold…
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She had just done it in the backseat with the man she decided would be her father. Or maybe it was the cast of his eyes under the dim bar lights. Maybe she insisted that this had to be done, to relive the night under the stars, under a dented roof of a station…
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When I met Gregor Samsa he was still a cockroach, erratic and skittish whenever the light came on. We often spoke in the dark. I empathized with the man. I mean bug. Ok. That isn't fair. You can't call a man a bug because he chirps and eats dried skin cells. A…
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in which a man who is bored with years of retirement poses a threat to himself and others
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