1358 6 5
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I found a diseased fish / wedged between some boulders near the pier
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135821
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"You don't need the gun," Dean said. "Bring me a bottle of peroxide and some duct tape."
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135855
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I'm not sure whetherI drink to numbthe pain or toactually feelsomething.
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1358104
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Every day, a fresh new/
strain of Hell reveals itself
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135811
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Where the skin had grazed, shredded by the coarse gravel to form scabs, fascinated Jack. It reminded him of his youth and his own grazes, scratches and stitches. As a boy he imagined scabs were rough foundations of igneous rock, blood like lava pouring th
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135796
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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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1357102
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135783
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You have the right to be happy
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135710
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Astrid did not smoke. Astrid did not drink. Astrid was not overweight. Astrid did not live a sedentary lifestyle; her whole life, aside from shopping, was working out. Astrid had no history of breast cancer or other female cancers in her family. Astrid di
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1357115
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The smell of garlic, soy, and onions/
exhausted from Skillman Wok/
perfumes December air.
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135785
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Love me like a crutch
Love me when I'm strong
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135711
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"Soviet Mandelstam rose like Christ from the Nightmare,
Rises from the gulag, sunrise on the page."
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135732
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A young boy, breathing heavily from running, stopped at her feet, barely able to speak,
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135732
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The Intrepid Explorer recounts his travels for the benefit of subscribers to the Magazine of the Museum of Everything
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135755
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135732
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Mother told me that I would go to the moon. But she did not tell me that on Diwali night, the moon hid himself on the other side of the sky.
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13571010
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I told her I didn't love her. She said love wasn't important; she wanted to marry a man she could respect.
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135711
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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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135676
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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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135600
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On these days, while Momma counts the money, we go to Blockbuster where we can pick a movie each, play on the playground at McDonalds, lick tall ice cream cones.
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135654
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. . . how a body calls
in the dark. . .
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135632
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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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13561510
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Someone's ass should be kicked.
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135654
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In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.
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135655
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In an authentic Irish pub in Las Vegas where over much crowd noise the three of us are discussing Yeats, Joyce and Lady Gregory. We’re in an Irish pub after all, plus the fact we’re literature profs attending a Vegas academic conference.
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135600
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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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1356117
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135654
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135632
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“Guys, who would you rather live with.... Mom... or Dad.”
His younger siblings giggled in shock, not that they hadn’t thought about it... apparently.
"You know I'm right here..." I joked, waving at them.
“I’d rather live with mom.” the question-a
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135620
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Look at this castle: fashioned from the sturdiest sand, pages of my name
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