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like old discarded snake skin,
dry and coarse after the bite...
immortally tortured by broken glass bottles.
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146010
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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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146094
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I’m not / going to change you I /promise
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146052
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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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146050
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"The Chinese don't have no Mardy Grah, bitch."
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146064
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and coughed its grey net over the candle lit world outside. Birds of an arrow sprang into thin air and disappeared over the hills in a quick shortness of zoom-breath-- like a stiffened branch snapping . It's cold. There're …
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146023
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say no / to me / and devastate me / and I will take it / as god's will / to drown me / in a vat / of my own / entrails
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146000
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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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146055
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There are certain items in the sink that are giving me an anxious feeling in my stomach.
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146065
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Maybe they considered themselves beyond redemption, or maybe they couldn't sit for that long.
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146031
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It was the first warm day of a late-arriving spring. Ben was sitting in his divorce lawyer’s office on Maiden Lane in lower Manhattan.
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146011
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I knew we were going to fail. The night we met, when we got out of the car, I dropped my green glove in that puddle, you picked it up but it was ruined. That set the precedent for our whole life together. You can't look at me anymore. My cigarette…
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146042
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Last night we slept with books in the bed.
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146021
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His touch, even now, seemed to set off tremors inside her.
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1460126
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It comes to me at night, the monster. I don't even realize it's in the room until I hear it breathing behind me. It reaches out its hands and places them on my shoulders. Its fingers are furry and soft, but strong. They grasp the muscles on either side of my neck, and I…
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1460105
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If I could say only one thing more to Tony who died a month ago, there is one thing I could find to say
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146023
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Me sad because of results set forth in my life story.
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145932
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I am not responsible for any nightmares this piece may cause for all you mice lovers!
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1459109
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After becoming single at age 62, I joined an online dating site. After a year of perusing profiles and meeting men for coffee, staying single is starting to look better and better to me. But I've stayed on the site, in part for the pure enjoyment of…
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145982
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She wore no bra. As she jammed the truck into park and pushed against the heavy door, he saw the points of her nipples against her dress. Ice filled his belly, the most beautiful pink-colored ice.
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1459129
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I smelled the bleach of burst anemones
the sweet arousal of the Dungeness crabs
the seaweed of sour twigs and feces
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145911
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Max sighed. Solving for x was boring, so mind numbingly boring that he didn't notice the flickering blue light hovering in his room. It crackled and popped, growing until a shimmering rectangle stretched from floor to ceiling.A hand pushed out from the rectangle, and a…
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145983
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After oh so many hours
the eyes could only close
only to view a Ritz cracker
marching on a nose
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145921
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...to know they are not alone
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145974
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The marble, it's just there.
I can't explain
how it got there
(or when),
all I know
is that everything
is in that marble.
By "everything,"
I mean every
thing. Your breakfast?
It's there.
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145932
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"Sometimes things just don’t go as planned. It doesn’t mean anyone is to blame - It just is."
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145932
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I don't mind being dead. It's ok. Really. I've discovered a whole new way of being based on non-being. What else can you do? I like being invisible. I like groaning and rattling chains. I used to be a writer. Still am. In fact, it might be more accurate to say that…
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145932
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"I'm just going to
take a power nap!"
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145900
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The pit of my stomach was bottoming out, this lurching sort-of feeling one experiences when one has coasted WELL OVER an abyss and has no way of finding one's bearings . . .
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145931
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She's an obese woman whose clothes don't fit: shirts that ride up too high her belly hanging out her pants suctioned to her strangely pegged legs. Her ballooned cheeks are always chapped pink her lips little slivers peeled back over small beige teeth like…
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