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His shirts he hangs on the back of the chair, one on top the other so they won't wrinkle.
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As the music concludes, I'm finally in control of my emotions . . .
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130700
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At night, he saw the commercial, the same one every time: the Watson’s girl, mascot for her father’s pool, spa, and billiards business. The Watson’s girl was a veteran at this, the same one from his youth, the one whose heart-shaped face and cleavage the
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130721
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Finally my daughter emerges from behind the silver curtain, riding piggy-back on a gigantic proboscis monkey. She's preoccupied by his nose, and wrings it like a wet dishrag with both hands. If it hurts he's not showing it.
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130711
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we all die from the bottom up
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130700
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He rolls in unbidden across the stubble fields /
Old acquaintance astride a newly booming cloud/
Under sky an alien shade of strawberries whipped/
Her watch stops ticking out the rest of her/
scheduled breathing poses
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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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130711
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Pen or sword? Pick one/choose your battles carefully/for the paths oppose
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130755
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where will we be/ when it happens?
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130701
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Overhead cranes balance ordinance from one end of the palatial enclosure to the other. There are robots, high-voltage, force-fields…more than a hundred ways someone could get hurt. I looked back again…She was gone.
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I'd wear my pajamas too, fitting for the big sleep
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130696
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They make you work
For your pizza in Italy
You have to slice it yourself
While wearing a gas mask
To ward off the cigarette smoke
From every neighboring table
While chasing away the
Mosquitos and the pigeons
The flies and the gypsy r
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130622
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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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And, if you look real close, you see there’s a bullet hole next to his left ear. A stray one went past his head and straight through Santa’s heart.
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You can't always be everything
you were expected to be
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130653
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Any form of exertion would defile what we are trying to do
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130621
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I came to a field where, scattered around, were quite a few men digging holes
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130633
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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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The blood is memorable/
as is the copper taste of that/
momentary certainty of lockjaw.
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When people talk about the end moments when one's life flashes before his or her eyes, they often refer to time as slowing down. I can attest to this phenomenon during my final moments, before the collision: the song playing on the radio, the squeal of tires and flash of…
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130620
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Originally published on Six Sentences:In a family of many hushed secrets, only so many years could pass before the cracks would begin to show, and usually started with the creative girls. Though her aunt had been dead for two years, Shifra knew the cracks the family…
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The manicured lawn rolls down either side of the knoll, punctuated with flat granite plaques, the occasional bouquet of cut flowers, a smattering of faded eight-inch American flags.
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130633
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Sitting in the car, John had the urge to kill himself.
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130643
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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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130621
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She continued to cooperate with a city council agenda dominated by globalized privatization
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Once there was a man who wrote in code. He was comfortable among substitutions
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130500
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Two women are escorted to the desert, where they are shackled to the ground. Who are they, what have the done, and will they survive?
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the honesty of bodies & the lies hidden under skin.
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The last chick in the nest
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