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150211
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The clouds cried more than silver tears,
this time.
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150200
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the warnings we fear are the selfsame ones of ourselves
of our vertical need to be first to the heights redoubling
its intractable charm of production— our inheritance.
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150295
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He kept
saying how my old scars
excited him to new truths
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1502113
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15021511
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I have become interested in Carracci / Ludovico Carracci
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150231
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Anna's daily train commute from the outer suburban fringes to the city reveals a message that changes her life.
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150221
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Under a conspiratorial moon… the shovel my silent partner… organ-less torso to the worms.
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15021612
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you escape by finding the bubbles
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150274
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And I admire//
the orchestrations of ants and honeybees/
and the persistence and adaptations/
of the cockroach.
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150230
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You’ve got me standin’ on my knees,
A’searchin’ for a beggar’s alms,
From folks who’re deaf to all my pleas
And blind to open palms.
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150222
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a disease/ like junk-sickness/ like a jealous lover/ who discovers competition/ and meets it with a blade/ in your heart,/ not hers.
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150200
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lying back on inviolable sheets, your breasts spread apart like a child’s open hands
you’d look up at me and smile
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150231
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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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150231
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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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150255
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Will he do it with a gun? If it’s a gun, will it be a short one, shaved so he can hold it against his head. Will it look like the photograph he showed me, black and brown. I told him he couldn’t possibly buy something like that from a Walmart.
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150272
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It waited and witnessed the seasons complete a grouping and form a year. Then it watched them do it again. Winter, spring, summer, fall. It watched from the inside of course. But it could see. Big sliding glass doors and long and wide windows stayed the course also, way…
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150165
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Everything was cool until she used the phrase, "five million dollar home."
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150133
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150121
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He keeps re-reading the menu but knows already how it ends..
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150145
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I had a terribly vivid dream
where a big leaf was talking to a baby,
and the Mouseketeers had grown fat,
and my lover was passing the healing comb
through the hair of my soul during the night
as she retouched my youth,
so I could rejoin
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150132
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Waiting for the light to turn, his mind wandered, wondering how it was that bridges of this sort collected stories. Old thru truss bridges with grated deckings, or any older bridge for that matter. The stories seemed to have died out since the concrete
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150173
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150151
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a man sees salamander bands / a-cracklin on the scree
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150130
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he flies away
past the green explosion,
into the azure sky
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150132
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And, if you look real close, you see there’s a bullet hole next to his left ear. A stray one went past his head and straight through Santa’s heart.
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150163
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I wear boots over bare legs feigning ignorance
To the coming storms, the snow the ice the cold
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150100
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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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150185
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The problem with drinking gin in the desert is that eventually there is no more gin but the desert is still there.
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150122
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...when the doctor scrapes the baby out, he cuts out all the things that make babies, too...
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