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Some days, you want all the red states to secede
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146144
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“I'm in love,” Satan said to me cheerily. I could tell he was in a good mood. He was whistling as he came up my sidewalk. There was a spring in his step. He carried his mail tucked under his arm.“I'm in love,” he said …
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146100
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Mayumi’s eyes twitched. Her head felt the pounding images and voices grafting themselves onto her mind.
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146123
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While serving in government, she plotted to change it.
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146121
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Their tongues were dry, her milk was gone, and the last bit of water in the plastic jug had evaporated.
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146111
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Baby Teak can access Wikipedia by rubbing two xylophone mallets together.
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146142
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In the exquisite now, I feel everything around me, in me, before and after, I think, I should call you, say goodnight, but I do not, choose instead to write this poem, as though I can capture the magic of what is happening between us in words, A…
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146156
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I said: “Doesn’t he understand? People like me, geniuses—great, mad geniuses—are prone to failures because we do not accept the common notions of society? Doesn’t he understand? I’m not like the others.”
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146176
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These words are dripping Delaware and these words are eating your eyes.
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146020
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I saw a woman stop, Stoop on the platform To pick up a penny, And wondered what it was worth To her, that disruption, That eddy in the flow of the day's rush. One hint of brightness, A tiny windfall And something changed. Lucky heads…
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146086
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It is the fragrance of decay/
as paint, polymers and dyes/
outgas molecules of themselves
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146030
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he flies away
past the green explosion,
into the azure sky
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1460119
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Shiva and Zeus convene a focus group.
“It wouldn’t work,” the panel votes. “Those leaf eaters would strip the trees and crops if we let them come back every year.”
“That’s true,” Jehovah reasons. “Remember that plague of locusts I sent down?”
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146030
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I somehow ended up with my father's second wife's wedding ring. Although it could actually be his third wife's wedding ring.
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146000
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I know I used to say I’d rather walk on the moon with my own rapacity. And you can easily say things like that, given the luxuriance of youth. But it was a lie, if you want to know the truth. That is only so much hot balloon air, puffed up in the chest,
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146055
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146062
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She buried her secrets in a bowl of brownie mix....
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146010
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For weeks I hadn’t been able to think straight, waiting to lay vision on those majestic, swooning breasts.
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146063
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—Have you ever fired a gun?
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146042
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The ambient sound wheezes on.
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146022
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Through void decks of apartment blocks,
Over roads on overhead bridges,
Down small streets on concrete pavements.
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146000
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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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146031
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The night I screamed you out of my life for good, I fed your confettied photo to swirling toilet, a ticker tape parade and dead fish burial rolled into one. Later I found the box, a jiffy…
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146032
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Of course they (the coffee and cream) were lovers, chemically made for one another, warmly exploring their partner's particles with the passion of a first kiss.
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146052
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I remember the first time I met the virgin, Terry (not Mary.) She was in the back seat of an old Plymouth convertible with its top down, jam-packed with raucous high school girls vying to see which one of them could be the most loud and obnoxious, and w
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146072
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Lisa Pottratz's mother illustrated fashion for Lord & Taylor from home in the 1970s. There is more to say about fertility, naming, and diabetes.
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146094
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soft voices singing somewhere in the black back of
rising tensions crashing with the waves...
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146032
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The girls of spring, they’ll stop your heart
When they forsake cosmetic art
They practiced back when skies were grey
and clouds obscured the light of day.
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145984
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She loves you when your words leave her dirty, semi-transparent, at times, overexposed.
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1459101
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These are the three facts of my life.
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