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A dead deer on the side of the road and the older boys not listening to her as they stab its eye with a stick.
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140443
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"You're no good at sex, no good at drugs and, god knows, no good at rock and roll."
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140442
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Blankets were always her undoing.
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140421
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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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140432
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I advertised in the local paper for a model.
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140400
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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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140376
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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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140300
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A brick from the parapet splat down later as I was applying a bitter healing powder, made from the seeds of watermelons, to my raw tongue.
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140321
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I was feeling a bit introspective. I was busy in my own mind assembling the history of the place and getting ready for the visit. I was naturally not someone who would cluster up with a bunch of people I had just met and had arrived to participate in this
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140387
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140354
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. . . how a body calls
in the dark. . .
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140376
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Maybe it was a trick of the gloom.
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140363
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My father seems anxious about my gender orientation. I grew up looking like a boy, acting like a boy. He bought dresses and girly stuff for me but he avoided making an issue of it until recently.
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1403128
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Compartments trickle together/
in light diffuse and unreliable./
Fortify yourself against the day.
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140300
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I play in the dirt with cattle bones
while Mother rattles the sky.
She tells me I have my fathers eyes.
The words come through bloody fissures in her lips.
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140300
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The first apartment Troy and Lynn lived in was managed by an alcoholic former army officer, who lived in the complex with his wife and teenage daughter. He was a lush who didn't do much in the way of management. Lynn had barely noticed him before Troy moved in with her.…
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140300
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Early in the morning
I wanted to send you something
for when you wake;
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140373
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edge of wolf howls and howls past sunflowers and skeletons
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140387
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He invited her in for a Martini and she graciously accepted.
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1403115
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Among the raindrops/
occasional plopping snowflakes.
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140344
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Sometimes my poems escape. They crawl out through my Wi-Fi connection, I suspect.
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140354
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I am i said pursued by the feeling of being watched.You are she said -- by yourself. As in a dream, a dream you know you're dreaming. Which changes nothing.We are she said watching from the mezzanine, half-above, at once a part and apart.
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140297
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Sex is a fetish war --
a battle of trinkets of desire
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140200
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What do I understand?
What have I mastered or come to terms with?
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140211
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*Must have excellent communication skills and be able to talk pretty good.
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140254
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She is alone in the ocean
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140274
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sprang straight up to their full galloping heights roaming over your hills like constantly shifting eyes, your strange approximated illuminating hair like ghosts giving birth to a tender smell of green sea foam. This was all I saw, but it was quite…
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140232
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A young boy, breathing heavily from running, stopped at her feet, barely able to speak,
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1402124
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It will always be this way/ won’t it, she said.
Me insecure, you unfaithful
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140252
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—Now that’s a hell-of-a-painting, Frank, he said. Those colors are engaged in warfare. How the hell did you do that?
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