1341 3 3
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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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134121
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Life to her had come to resemble one of those mazes you find in a puzzle book, inscrutable except by those with exceptional IQs. Mary would run her pencil down one path in search of the passage that might penetrate to the exit, then another, but the paths
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1341107
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and where have the years sped
how distant was your youth
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134100
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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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1341109
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I offer you a peanut butter sandwich full of unconditional love
and you say I'm being controlling, so I let you eat cake, eat cake.
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1341135
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The year begins well here
with much needed rain
and tee-shirt temperatures.
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134132
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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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134187
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13401310
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the last, best//
analgesic--/
guaranteed
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1340102
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1340107
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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.
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1340115
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The spectacle of weather/
on the prairies approaches.
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1340115
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The smell of garlic, soy, and onions/
exhausted from Skillman Wok/
perfumes December air.
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134063
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Day by day people went missing. Reports of the ads being answered with a robocall solution to their problems were at first unconfirmed. Yesterday my best friend told me his emotional distress call was going to be channeled into a free trip to what he call
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134042
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Feeding you a taste of croissant
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13401312
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My wife, Sheila, inadvertently clicked my e-mail address, too, when she sent her reply back to him and I read her poet friend's message that her love opened the window of his heart and she replied that his words were knocks that opened the door to her being, then I stood…
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13401310
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Inevitability: it's what's for dinner.
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134055
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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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134050
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"The Chinese don't have no Mardy Grah, bitch."
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134021
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Under a conspiratorial moon… the shovel my silent partner… organ-less torso to the worms.
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134064
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She stiffens and blusters and roars
Not like a storm,
Not like a lion.
Like a badger, caught in the steel jaws of a trap.
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134000
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“I”, fuck it. I, I, I, I. It has always only been about me, this voice of mine, indivisibly me. selfishly and pompously. I shall not dispense with the false pleasantries other writers will offer, those writers that say, “Reader, look here, look at the…
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134087
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He invited her in for a Martini and she graciously accepted.
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134011
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Pen or sword? Pick one/choose your battles carefully/for the paths oppose
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134098
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You snore and the house is safe again.
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13401511
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She was not the usual member of the band, not the girl nextdoor, not next to any door, not a regular housekeeper or woman. She was a ditch digger, a pied, circular piper, a mouse hugger.
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134020
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“Have I told you this one before?”
I can’t think of one he hasn’t told me, but saying so won’t stop him. I fire up the FreeCell game, put the phone on speaker, and pour a tumbler of chardonnay.
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134055
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She thinks this is the place she dreamed
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134064
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Frank kept looking over at Michiko’s loft.
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134020
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He draped the sheet over her body. Blood spotted the fabric, rose petals on snow.He left the pistol, but pocketed the first edition she'd signed. Part of his fee.In the park, he ditched the glasses, fake mustache, and anorak before making the call.The publisher called an…
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