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A tornado and peacock were bred in his paddock; the couple gave birth to a turquoise lasso.
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147154
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Last night as a duration spent hovering in electronic media-space.
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147094
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He wasn't sure if I was joking.
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1470148
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Even music relies on what/
you know as music/
for its power to enthrall.
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147050
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"And then I, and I believe,
I alone, saw
this small child
run..."
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147000
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Oh, you aren't going to lecture us, for heaven's sake?
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147044
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Jenny was certain nobody saw her when she took the slinky shirt from her father's store. It was blue with buttons shaped like cherries, the fabric light as air. She balled it up in her hand. Her father owned a chain of boutiques called Body Electric. The racks were…
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147062
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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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147051
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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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147095
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We got a sandwich at Mr. Pickle's, but they cut the sandwich in the plastic. Plastic wrap.
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14701210
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I. Two cancer scares since June, one came up nothing the other nothing much. (My breasts are dense: I know all about moles— little bastards don't have to get sun to go nuts.) My manuscript travels ether to…
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147086
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Said do you feel it when you touch me?
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147076
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1470147
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At some point, you care/
just enough to wake each morning,
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14701511
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When Lois finally found him down there, Johnny was wedged between a large rock and the trunk of an old, long since fallen, cottonwood tree. She said as she got to him, she heard his gurgling breath, fighting fiercely to stay alive. When she saw the deep, gathering, red…
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147032
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...the relatives didn't seem nearly as fucked up as she thought they would be considering...
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1470108
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That TV you got me? Ruined. And the ionizer fan? Ruined too. All your clothes you left over here, all my work scrubs and weekend dresses too, soaked with that river stink water. I kept thinking bout all the dead creatures.
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1470108
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He knows I talk to angels, what he would call angels. I don’t talk to him.
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146921
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An excellent plan. Just like old times.
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1469107
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Dreams / of being a millionaire are replaced by dreams / of being a billionaire
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146911
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The dance draws deeper
whirling witches weaving rhymes
The fire spits fierce in the falling rain
soon the spell will spill from secret times
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146920
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When they tell you to choose your last meal, it probably hasn't dawned on you yet.
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146911
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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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146966
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I feel his hand on my face, feel it brush past my lips, and I taste my sister's blood.
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146910
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Another noise, softer than the first: swish, thud. You are still. The house is very loud tonight.
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1469118
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At the conference her boss showed off his knowledge of wines.
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146984
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It was cold and clammy, but then it got worse. Far worse. Any opportunity to celebrate the unity and harmony of tolerance was soon cancelled.
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146900
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The eyelid of the sink blinks silence. The clocks choke on smoke.
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146954
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We sat up in bed. It's two o'clock in the morning. Blinding circular flashlight beams probe through the half pulled shades. Magnified black silhouettes of men's torsos lumber back and forth in the yard. We are in a fishbowl and being invaded.
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146943
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I was walking my Belgian Waffle-Hound
Past the Belgian waffle shop
I found a penny on the ground
And did a tiny little hop
I spun around and went inside
The Belgian waffle shop
And bought a little waffle
For my Belgian Waffle-Hound
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