1453 10 7
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You stretch my heart / in sacred ways
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145320
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Meanwhile stars continue to surprise...
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145344
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Ok, ok, people are forever asking me, so why did I cross the frickin’ road? Dumb-shit me, of course. Consequences waaay unforseen.
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145320
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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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145310
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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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1453128
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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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145354
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this is where we end --
the exorbitant eye of forgotten days.
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145321
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Soon the world is on film that is burning.
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145351
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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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145333
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two pairs of arms and legs
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145353
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God’s hearing aid is missing
And apparently needs an enormous battery
But no one has the
heart to tell Him
because who wants to be
shouting at God?
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145312
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I was an alcoholic for ten years, starting in my early twenties and continuing into my thirties. Then finally, after many attempts, I got myself straightened out. My son's birth finally did it for me. It wasn't like a switch flipped in the delivery room…
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145341
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Describe my origami, the shape of a gun or a limp dick, or maybe a flower.
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1453116
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Everything is bound to change like / a damsel to the tracks.
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145364
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I woke up to the humming
of an empty space in the shape of a sweatshirt,
|
14531511
|
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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145320
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He draped the sheet over her body. Blood spotted the fabric, rose petals on snow.He left the pistol, but pocketed the first edition she'd signed. Part of his fee.In the park, he ditched the glasses, fake mustache, and anorak before making the call.The publisher called an…
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1453126
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14521310
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the last, best//
analgesic--/
guaranteed
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145231
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No excerpts for you. Next!
|
145253
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Any form of exertion would defile what we are trying to do
|
145255
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There’s someone in the audience who is immolating himself
Cutting his own leg over and over with a pen knife
And groaning: “Oh God, oh God”
And all I can think from up at the podium is
This guy must absolutely hate these poems
I am reading
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1452169
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The blood is memorable/
as is the copper taste of that/
momentary certainty of lockjaw.
|
145277
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Harvey C. Hamby was drunk. Usually he held his liquor well, but tonight he was off his form. Stumbling over an ottoman, he landed on the floor in a sodden sprawl. As he fell, his left foot shot out behind him and socked Glenda Steinberg in…
|
145243
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Breathe a stench of Eton musk...
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145233
|
I reach out and grab a can of soup with each hand and spin them around to dive into this much-heralded sodium situation. It's a landslide. I almost smile as I put low sodium back and continue to hold tightly onto regular.
|
145271
|
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145200
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This had the unintentional effect of me picturing her in a tight white top and tiny orange shorts. From up close like this, I had clearly misjudged her earlier. She could definitely be more than the quirky best friend in my movie.
|
145265
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I found a diseased fish / wedged between some boulders near the pier
|
145232
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...the relatives didn't seem nearly as fucked up as she thought they would be considering...
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