1522 16 9
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The blood is memorable/
as is the copper taste of that/
momentary certainty of lockjaw.
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152264
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... he could feel the pointed picket spears.
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1522118
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152276
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152265
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I found a diseased fish / wedged between some boulders near the pier
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152250
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Flicking the cigarette into the river the man's face becomes soft, as if waving goodbye to the only real attachment that he has felt in decades.
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152197
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Sex is a fetish war --
a battle of trinkets of desire
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152101
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She could see him doing these things but she could not hear him.
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152120
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The story of a second, a stone, and an android -- all curiously interrelated and all, coincidentally, named Gretchen
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152153
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Into the bowl I put Tales from the Crypt, The Far Side and an episode of Numbers. Wisked for a moment, then let the dough rise.
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152165
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No matter what you may discover
Or come to believe during the drinking life
The question still remains:
What if everyone was an accident?
But still, while time may appear
To be nearing its own end
And the sun seems to be getting
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152110
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What if
Everything
I have been doing
Hasn’t been heard
By anyone?
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152198
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Dressed as an English professor on Halloween
I escape the red devil and run downtown.
I go to the Art Car hangar
I dance, I swing my golden brown briefcase
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152122
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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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1521107
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My blood has turned to flour I've been in Babylon too long My heart was singed by fire But it's drowning in my song We raised a prayer to Mary We had to take our share We took our places in the ferry But we didn't pay the fare And we don't know…
|
1521118
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“Just how many different animals try to hide their nakedness?” “Only one. And that'd be us, idiot.”, Twinkle responded. “Then, why don't we mind sometimes showing our bodies?”, she then asked. Twinkle could see it was going to be another…
|
1521128
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We suffer//
the one agony only- of having no longer/
any physical effect nor way to speak/
of what we watch to those we watch.
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152154
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this is where we end --
the exorbitant eye of forgotten days.
|
152154
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In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.
|
152185
|
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
|
152100
|
Won't speak a word against 'em. Car trunk stunk like bad chicken long after, but I won't speak a word against 'em.
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15212512
|
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152134
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Carl’s peculiarity of toilet paper rolls is not covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act – he’s looked it up.
|
152160
|
The Star Trek marathon ends, and he flips channels. An episode of Full House is on. The cheesy plot lines and attractive women (specifically, DJ Tanner in the late seasons) have become a freakish comfort.
In today's episode, the Tanners are baby sitt
|
152100
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My eyes don’t close but hers are shut tight, and something inside tells me that to this girl, I could be absolutely anyone.
|
152021
|
The Gropers of Prague were there, all around us, in spirit if not in fact. Was it KGB? Was it a ghost from my past? Or my own hand?
Stop guessing. It was Einstein himself. The KGB had taken him into custody somehow, though by what authority? All the
|
152011
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No chance for Hallo, we sank into an unlit station doorway and he fumbled through my shorts.
|
152044
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The young boy woke to the sound of laughter. He blinked himself out of deep sleep and allowed…
|
152031
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I will show you how, in the spring,
the sidewalks here
look like a crossword puzzle resting under
a glass of lemonade,
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15201410
|
My grandfather was ninety three. My mother was sixty three. I was thirty three. My daughter had just turned three. Our ages were all lined up like the beauty marks on Snow White in the Donald Barthelme version of the story.
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