1119 5 5
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philanthropy corrugated with a smirk / printed aside every cardboard box and room / every cardboard house with every cardboard door.
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1119129
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We perform our chosen duty— naming/
beauties and atrocities within
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111943
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It was bound to happen. Even celebrities can only take so much. The constant comparisons to Christ (people still think He was born in December), assumptions that he was anti-Semite or anti-Islam, and accusations from PETA, now ad litem for…
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111900
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It is your hamsa that protects us,” the girl whispers to me.
“Then I shall give it to you,” I reply.
“No,” she says in the unselfish innocence of her youth. “It is yours and you must keep it.” I smile and kiss her dirty forehead. Eternity passes whil
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111920
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My apologies also for those crowded roads you and your families have to drive on. My generation would have built more public transportation but, in all honesty, we just didn't give a damn.
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111944
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I’m up to my kneecaps
in mockery and swill, and …
Excuse Me,
I’m Writing a Poem here?
Thank you. Sheesh!
As I was saying,
I’m up to my kneecaps in mockery and swill.
And I meet someone who
names all his fish after
people he doesn’t l
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111920
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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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111955
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Eat blueberries every day and you'll live to be a 92 year old mogul. Really.
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111800
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If I remember him at all it’s because I decided not to flunk him so he could graduate. I had this theory that teachers should be bound by the same oath as doctors, First, do no harm.
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111895
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There were ten thousand photographs buried in the bottom of the jar
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111852
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Didn't he have like a frog
No lips so speak of, and the weathered lizard
Look of the frequently face-lifted?
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1118159
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heart-shaped stones
love, devotion
no way
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111800
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That was really the problem with leaving. She had to leave everything, could take none of the perfection with her. Anything she took would’ve been too little, or too much, once removed. Once not in his house, not in his vision or touch, the magic would
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111800
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I traced the vein that rose in her temple when she got angry all the way along her body until it ashed out varicosely on her smooth calf.
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1118109
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He looks outside, sees everything disappearing like crumbing cookies into what appears to be a giant mouth.
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111811
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He licks his lips and mouths the air, salivating, unashamed of his propensity for the round, pink grapefruit, the almost egg-shaped oranges, the firm, juicy tangerines.
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111888
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Sunlight and the small wind/
swallow the frost/
on rooftops and windshields
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111811
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A 20-footer up on skids
sky-blue paint beneath the bondo
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111876
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We exist to facilitate/
successful conclusions of hopeless lives.
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111855
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Perdita's confusing profusion of parts makes it impossible to know which way up she goes.She flutters beneath the camera's shuttered stare, …
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111864
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I try as much as I can to write but only in as much as you believe―am I successful.
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111833
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I kill because I can’t stop. I kill because I can.
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111821
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poon fred / loop ilo/ bussy yubb tree
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111850
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"The Chinese don't have no Mardy Grah, bitch."
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111843
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Need not remember, the 6th of November.
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111821
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The girl lifts my head, and I sit up straight once again. She hands me a pair of old work gloves, helps put them on my swollen hands. She wipes my face with a wet, warm towel. Her thin arms tremble. She cries. I cry.
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111831
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I cannot find my way back to the bubbling navel of the universe because of Spongebob Squarepants.
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111854
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In December of 2003, Daniel Arredondo succumbed to his years long battle with colon cancer. If the name is unfamiliar, you're not alone. He did not answer to the name Daniel Arredondo. For most of his life, from seventeen years old to the end, in fact, he went by the name…
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111721
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I look as sympathetic as I can, under the circumstance, which is entirely unsympathetic.
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11171511
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sentinels in a frost-blackened field
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