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Last night as a duration spent hovering in electronic media-space.
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140921
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Only fragments of their lives survive, like broken Sapphos. I have known them, alleged killer of themselves for the love of a man., but we know this is an invention. The leader of a whole guild of girls, who wrote 7 books of poems. What happened to them
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140951
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It’s as she reaches into the fridge for the carton of half-and-half with the grainy waxy photo of the little girl—Last Seen 10/2/06—that the memory surfaces:
“Hey. That’s mine.”
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140876
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Up at the top, a quarter mile south, billows of black smoke crawled up the faint blue of the sky.
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140800
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A baseball bat a large pipe a hammer and axe
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140897
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Sex is a fetish war --
a battle of trinkets of desire
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140854
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still curious of the taste of eggs
finally licking my plate
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140821
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140821
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"Haven't you ever had some little thing you would rather everyone just left you alone about? I don't like to have my picture taken. Please don't ask me again."
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140832
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today on the bus/ a man in his fifties/ smiled at a baby/
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140822
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At a candlelit table near the back of the restaurant, Jack and Lois greeted the waiter as he delivered their drinks, a diet coke for him, and for her, a vodka and cranberry. He apologized for the slow bar service and promised to return in a moment to take their…
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140852
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At 11 pm, it is 87 degrees and I sit in front of the air conditioner, eating oatmeal. The oats aren't soft enough, but it is sugary and fills me. Outside, the city hovers at the edge of a brown out, people sweating hopelessly inside small boxes. In Utah, it was cold…
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1408108
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One day, my feet and hands got into an argument. My feet argued that they were superior because they were not only the foundation of my body, but the cause of its mobility. They were modest in size, yet supported and transported an entire body that towered over them.…
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140863
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Some people are born that way, and some people do things to themselves
that keep them from talking. Like opening up a soda bottle with your mouth.
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140832
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A young boy, breathing heavily from running, stopped at her feet, barely able to speak,
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1408124
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It will always be this way/ won’t it, she said.
Me insecure, you unfaithful
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140833
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Where we’ve penned heart shaped question marks, seeds sprouting bowed heads, a congregation of confused supplicants.
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140876
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Maybe it was a trick of the gloom.
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140855
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It's been a bad year, People dying. Some too close to home, Some too far away. I cry down to you, In your casket, and think you might sit up. You were not sick You went in just a moment, Looking stunning and alive. Not…
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140810
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Wile E. Coyote? A junkie strung out on bunk dope.
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140854
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Uzma dashes up the stairs ahead of me . . .
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140810
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Sometimes, to be sad, you don't need tears.
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140821
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Wesley did not rob banks in Banning County. Wesley Roberts was the sheriff of Banning County; robbing its banks would have created a conflict of interest.
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140832
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The Italian was late. She was supposed to come into the store, meet him in the back, and arrange to take the last of his liquor.
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14081012
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All the things that are his.
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140842
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Blankets were always her undoing.
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140800
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Every morning when he wakes, he lies in bed and waits for one of his toes to twitch or spasm; the moment he feels one of them thrust forward, he gains courage to test his legs. He grimaces either way: one more day of walking, one more day until loss, one more trip to the…
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1408107
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The Tea Party member was married but cuter. He worked as a caulker, a tub and basin man.
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140821
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My third Rule of Success—and I may not have these in exactly the right order–is always get a pre-nup!
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140855
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This was not the bar that the artist usually frequented.
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