1542 13 10
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This time the bag's bigger/than the boy and the door.
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154232
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I didn't feel when you cut out my spine I'd been throwing up all night couldn't even smell the rust …
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154221
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Neither you nor I is old enough, of course,
to remember that America’s most
popular athlete once was a horse.
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154244
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"...,beautiful, yet neutral, an oversimplistic reading of the people we meet."
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154298
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War Stories #1The Germans didn't like that theJews had such beautiful women.War Stories#2There must have been a war between the good witches and the bad witches. It's the only thing that would account for such troubling times.Woman With Yellow HatWhy did…
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154121
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Just an abnormal visit to the post office.
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154100
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Martin met Siena in the elevator, carrying two brown bags of groceries. She asked him to press the button for floor eight. As they rose, Martin fixed his eyes on the display as it changed numbers: G, 2, 3… and so on.
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154121
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The kitchen is full of old girlfriends. I avoid them. They are munching on cheddar and sharing stories I'm sure I don't want to hear.
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154120
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Ruth carries always a small bottle of nitroglycerin; and tissues, wads of tissues; two Tums (for calcium, she tells me)...
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154152
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Method of divination. Open a book to any section. Drop your hand onto the page. Read that there is an exorcism happening in the other room.
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154186
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It was your present world that seemed more than mad to me. Your polished stiff brown shoes that always squeaked like mice, while the latest rude Bombers bubbled up in their comfortable Dart-board garages like apple pies…
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154132
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My pain is a black pearl hidden in a clean shell.
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154100
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A dark and mysterious account of an ancient traveler seeking arcane literature, and the miserable results to him after he receives what he sought.
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154130
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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.
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154165
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He doesn't call, not even on her birthday. She doesn't mention it or complain. She knows she doesn't have it as bad as some, even in this privileged Triangle of North Carolina. She is white and pretty and belongs to what's left of the middle…
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154110
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It's saying, "It feels as if you've given me your old, your tired and your poor. I feel much older than the years you've logged."
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154131
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'Every raindrop sounds different.' says Barney. He's bouncing along beside his mother, twisting in her hand like warm milk. She looks down at his Big Bear hat and tugs. They wait together at the edge of the busy road. 'How do they sound?' 'Zzzing.…
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154130
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blackberry pie and huckleberry wine and litte Maria with her summerset bangs
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154187
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Downtown Milwaukee My feet are exposed, never been out in public even out here— …
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15411511
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When Lois finally found him down there, Johnny was wedged between a large rock and the trunk of an old, long since fallen, cottonwood tree. She said as she got to him, she heard his gurgling breath, fighting fiercely to stay alive. When she saw the deep, gathering, red…
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154155
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where will we be/ when it happens?
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154096
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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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154011
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Every day, I write myself further away
From the East
Where we began
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154021
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I want the luxury of hearing other people who disagree with me tell me why I’m an asshole!
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154044
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1540107
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Once you descend, the third rail/
hums its invitation
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1540158
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Go diddle in the sand//
to save some other sinner/
a death of stones.
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154098
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6. to register for the draft
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154086
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At some point we all reach the end point/
of something. Something important/
if only to our fragile self esteem.
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154010
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It is your music that makes me want to crack open my ribcage and rip out my heart as it still beats, to cauterize my carotids, and shove the mechanical insides of a clock into my thoracic cavity.
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