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I couldn’t parse the grammar of her body
nor decode the secret softness of her neck.
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142632
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Where were you the night Katrina destroyed New Orleans? Oh, what a night... A week later, most of the city was still underwater, with hundreds or thousands of folks presumed dead, and tens of thousands…
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142600
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Could I really seduce and rob a total stranger -- just on a dare?
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142641
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“Behold!” cried the Lord, on a late September morning,
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142522
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“What does it feel like to run, Thomas?” I yelled across the field. Thomas was so fast. I would never catch up to him. Even if I could run. He was so fast. …
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142531
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No one takes me seriously because I am an idiot.
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142511
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away into a gale then
sleet he gurgled with
eddie the pike till
he yearned and
twirled the oracle
of spider gloss
till he slipped
alone into the sky
to find her in a violet
rain they splat together
back to back on the rail
in the rumbling tumbl
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1425138
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inside i know my heart rattles
cause outside i'm only seeing
that the truth is in tatters
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142532
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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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142533
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You’re finally in a band that can get through a rehearsal without someone strangling someone with an amp cord over creative differences. No one’s in jail, rehab, or MIA from a multi-day booze binge. The group has laid down a few quality tracks that don’t
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142511
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The clouds cried more than silver tears,
this time.
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142544
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From the rumple of pre-dawn Queens, sure South on 95, to almost Savannah by dark; still cold, but we’re full of what’s coming:
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142563
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—Have you ever fired a gun?
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142521
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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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142533
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I kill because I can’t stop. I kill because I can.
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142531
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One of Montejo's captains has us drilling in the rain again. The sun hasn't shone for days and the air is stifling, like trying to breath under water. Everything looks gray except the palms. Each green leaf droops in the rain like a…
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142556
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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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142520
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“Have I told you this one before?”
I can’t think of one he hasn’t told me, but saying so won’t stop him. I fire up the FreeCell game, put the phone on speaker, and pour a tumbler of chardonnay.
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14251911
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There is no there or where but rather/
trajectories of probability
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142486
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The first inkling that I might be in love with Josie came at our high school senior day outing at, oh, what's its name, state park. I forgot, but it doesn't matter. She smiled, did a little wave and stepped away from her friends, lifted her sundress a little to keep it dry,…
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142462
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Your brother is not really blind.
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142486
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It is the fragrance of decay/
as paint, polymers and dyes/
outgas molecules of themselves
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142452
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You’ve got Wikipedia. Look them up: vagina and penis. What Wikipedia will not tell you, however, is the thousands of years of human anguish, and rapture, wrapped up in those two organs.
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142432
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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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142497
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She grew tired of waiting for her husband to give her a flower so she picked one for herself.
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1424108
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for the moment/
you think you know what you’re/
doing and do it.
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142466
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still have the yellow rose that I
did not throw into the grave.
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142410
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Snap!
Dylan’s arms flung forward as the rod bent toward the ocean. “Holy God! What did I snag?
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142400
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i was in the fields, i was moss, was sticking my head in the columbine
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142432
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Rose was the easiest lay in the Fletcher Memorial Home For The Aged.
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