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Night became day and back again in the span of a heartbeat, the familiar strangeness of the sudden change stinging like dust in the eye.
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144165
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To listen is to feel embodied reason//
sing and dance with consummate grace
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144110
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I leapt up to retaliate when the clang of a distant door quieted my retesance. Shit, why am I so popular? I guess it was my turn to be thrown around like the guy in the Hotdog suit on the corner... Don't shoot the "Hotdog" guy... Please, please don't
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144120
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Overnight Robbie had lost his youth. But since he was still only nine and his arm looked like a nine-year-old's arm, people didn't notice much at first, until he tried running. Or if he was introduced, and they went to shake his hand. He immediately lea
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144143
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The first of the fires that started by the river in the abandoned mills were so hot they burned white and pale blue
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When I came back from California the second time, in the summer of 1965, I was the first around our town to wear my hair long, influenced by the Beatles. And I bought a bunch of blue caps that everyone in our gang wore, with the number “69” sown on
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I used to be a poet, you know. /
Better, in many respects, than you.
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144043
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Let me swim into your eyes. Let me show you my world. My album. My Albania. My albumen.
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144054
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still curious of the taste of eggs
finally licking my plate
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1440109
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My student assistant was a comely young woman. A freckle faced blonde. She was from Ohio.
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144000
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Rome and Carthage wage war as Hannibal crosses the Alps and invades Italy. With him, he brings an army of barbarian hordes hellbent on reducing Rome to ash. For one young Roman soldier, Gaius, he is trapped between his loyalties to the republic, and to hi
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144054
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Been looking for guns.
His guns have turned up missing.
He’s been looking for the guns.
Looking for guns.
The au-pair must’ve snuck back in
And took the guns.
And the baby.
The baby must be crawling off with
Guns again.
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He bought damaged and used sex dolls online.
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144062
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your light is gonna
last me
through the week
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144050
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"And then I, and I believe,
I alone, saw
this small child
run..."
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144052
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The night sky was washed gray by city lights.
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144000
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I was watching the bustling crowd below, sipping on a teacup full of Victory Gin when the scream, no a howl, cut through the murmuring of footsteps and telescreens.
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144043
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Breathe a stench of Eton musk...
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144074
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the stars might be the audience or they might not be
if the beat sits right next to me and hugs me nasty
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144042
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I give you the rattle of the rattlesnake. I give you a daub of creosote. I give you the metaphysics of glue.
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144053
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He looked like a black paper doorway pasted onto a painting of summer.
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1440104
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Every day, a fresh new/
strain of Hell reveals itself
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Of flowers there Are none In June No sun Upon my cheek The gentle breeze Stirs me not The smiles They cloud my vision Birds they Sing their songs But I hear Them not When tears Rain down My heaven.
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143997
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Sex is a fetish war --
a battle of trinkets of desire
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143912
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Johnny Rocket is on the I-pad, sad, He says, “Game on, King me, the Queen” Always "it", he eats pork rinds like mad, “King him again” high on amphetamine.In his sleep, ants come up from the floor board to eat french fries, cola, their aorta…
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143985
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"the dark velvet slide of the tongue."
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A woman who is, say, a culinary arts champion or an heiress devoted to literature such as Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman) or Peggy Guggenheim might be able to turn me on, turn me out, turn me around.
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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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