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Sebastian and Janice had been a natural match. They sought to deny this at first because a recovery assistance program was not a place to forge intimate relationships. It worked out wonderfully in Hollywood, but Hollywood, as everyone knew, was just a facade. So…
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Frank kept looking over at Michiko’s loft.
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He wasn't sure if I was joking.
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the last, best//
analgesic--/
guaranteed
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I would advise the younger you to change your underpants, and not to let those boys do the talking for you.
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A man of action would take to his rake/
but Sloth would rather watch and wait/
for snow to erase each leaf on leaf.
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The were two things and two things only in the town of Comfort, Alabama, that were older than Bella.
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Mon wakes up surrounded by trees. The light is grey, the trunks black.How long have I slept? he wonders.He doesn't know which way to walk. In every direction, the same prospect of trees. He looks up at a blank sky. No sign even of the sun.***He starts walking. Slowly,…
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And God said unto the oil can: “Thou art cursed above the cattle, and above every beast of the field. And deep the ground shalt thou go.”
“Mother,” said the oil can, “fucker!”
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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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I found a diseased fish / wedged between some boulders near the pier
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Even the old medicine woman seemed to grin with a perverted sort of understanding when she opened the door to find Lys waiting outside. She was comfortable nowhere and ready to flee at any moment.
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Every day, a fresh new/
strain of Hell reveals itself
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I still picture her waving her bare arms and hands into the purple bellied clouds above the trees, her crooked smile, the spiraling silver maple seeds cascading soft circles around her determined reach, as though the very tree limbs shaping the sky above
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I can admire Falling Water
and find Mr. Wright a complete shit.
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Oh sweet, sweet morning light
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[VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.]
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But this ache wouldn't leave me.
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“We could dooble date,” he said.
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Galloping people, tangled in ballets of hot love, weaving in and out, making a canvas of it.
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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.
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All these poets with their wrinkled hands full of freshly poured over poems are driving me into the dried wheat fields like a black block of crows. Offering a collectable cigarette, they light the damned thing with another hand-rolled poem,…
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The smell of garlic, soy, and onions/
exhausted from Skillman Wok/
perfumes December air.
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'Like poems,’ I said
she paused and nodded
her black mop.
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Dressed as an English professor on Halloween
I escape the red devil and run downtown.
I go to the Art Car hangar
I dance, I swing my golden brown briefcase
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to pay dues to the calendar year / when a day breaks in quartertime / the stars account for halftone
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In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.
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He thought of his field trip from the previous year, of Prague’s museums, statues, squares, architecture, restaurants, and various modes of transport. The town offered none of these and surely no cinema, no crowds of people, not even an old church.
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