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this is where we end --
the exorbitant eye of forgotten days.
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145322
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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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145321
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most interesting, i investigate all of this at 1:15 on a thursday morning and consistently contradict my assumptions while simultaneously validating them.
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145387
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The winter’s too warm for the bears to sleep,
and they get up in the middle of the night
with insomnia and wander about the streets
in their pajamas, knocking over garbage cans,
looking for a midnight snack of some kind.
They’re getting kind o
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145354
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Last night as a duration spent hovering in electronic media-space.
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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,
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14531511
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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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145321
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She continued to cooperate with a city council agenda dominated by globalized privatization
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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!
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145211
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He roared back at her, shaking his empty gun in his right hand, waving his left hand in the air. “I am George Burnett, esquire, late of Balliol College, Oxford! I am a hunter, a killer of pigs! I do not fear you, bear; take the pig and be content!”
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145253
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Any form of exertion would defile what we are trying to do
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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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145221
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Soon the world is on film that is burning.
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1452169
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The blood is memorable/
as is the copper taste of that/
momentary certainty of lockjaw.
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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…
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145243
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Breathe a stench of Eton musk...
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145233
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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.
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145241
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Describe my origami, the shape of a gun or a limp dick, or maybe a flower.
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145271
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145265
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I found a diseased fish / wedged between some boulders near the pier
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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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145220
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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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1451112
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The water lapped against the sides of the small boat, their rhythm all that I could think of. Sweltering rays beat down, frying my flesh, the insipid salty breeze that occasionally stirred my only relief from it. Gulls circled overhead, like white ravens,
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