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A rope is cleaner,
he explains with a straight face.
He's calmed by the visual.
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154553
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And your daughter, Mrs. P, and your daughter Mrs. Q, underwater, underwater in the old swimming hole, in the backyard swimming pool. “They’ve all got children there.” La la.
Yet when I’m naked, when I enter with my own body the mirror, the small sha
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154500
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Osama couldn’t see any reason he shouldn’t retire. No way he could top BP Oil in the Gulf or Pacific Gas & Electric in San Bruno.
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1544129
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I smelled the bleach of burst anemones
the sweet arousal of the Dungeness crabs
the seaweed of sour twigs and feces
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154465
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I know someone in need of healing.
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154422
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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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154466
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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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154432
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Dearest Z— There is no way to describe this place. It is a pendulum, caught at mid-swing or maybe just a millimeter on the up side. It is a sense of sweeping, a cleanness. Distant clouds remind me of the day we took the train and the mountains acted petulantly,…
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154421
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She’s always had one foot on a pedestal and the other in a gutter.
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154400
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The county sent two crews, one to get Mr. Meyers, the old shut-in, tall and affable, but quiet and bent, like a crooked coat rack with a porkpie atop, the other for his dog, an english setter whom he shadowed like a familiar. I say he was the familiar and
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154441
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The most unoriginal, trite and hackneyed story ever written!
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1544115
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Among the raindrops/
occasional plopping snowflakes.
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154331
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154331
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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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154344
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This is my melody. I will not shut it down for you, it will do all that on its own time. Everyone knows this. I don't need you to go on holiday. Can't really get away from yourself. This is my color guard. It goes with the everything I am. I'm not sorry I…
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154310
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What if
Everything
I have been doing
Hasn’t been heard
By anyone?
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154321
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I want to own you, even if it is only for a few moments or a few hours, but it will not be worth it unless for that brief span of time I know that the only purpose of your existence is to be a woman whom I own.
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154371
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She talks about window treatments, how the place is maybe too much for one. Wants me to know she’s not much of a cook, and wants me to smell what’s in her oven and compliment her cooking anyway.
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154364
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After the Tokyo experience, Frank and Michiko decided that when she went on extended tours, Frank would accompany her.
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154300
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Sora and Ciel stood before Dean Morden inside his office. It felt weird to the girls looking at him sitting behind Madam Mayweather’s desk
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... “All power is just behind your belly. Look. Knot of belt – just in front of navel – navel is eye of chi.” ...
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154322
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“I’m pregnant,” he says...
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154374
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The stain upon / many others cannot be discerned.
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Her voice gets screechy as she talks of the boy he was caught fondling in the bathroom of a bowling alley. The worst part: the dumb schmuck doesn’t even bowl.
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154353
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He looked like a black paper doorway pasted onto a painting of summer.
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154364
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I woke up to the humming
of an empty space in the shape of a sweatshirt,
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She can still be normal, says Momma, knowing my sister can’t hear, forgetting I can.
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