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Maybe they considered themselves beyond redemption, or maybe they couldn't sit for that long.
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130131
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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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130184
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Do you know this song, Julia? I happened upon it one evening and only just before meeting you, a month before meeting, a month before arriving?
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130175
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I'm hearing a noise. I can't see it. It's hiding and seems to be coming from the other side of the creek. With boots on I slowly wade across. The water makes its light lapping sounds. Reaching the bank, I search for the noise. It must have a face, suntanned and warm, that I…
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130155
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Eat blueberries every day and you'll live to be a 92 year old mogul. Really.
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130110
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130022
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The research facility is located at the bottom of a steep and jagged valley, far away from Heaven, and the anguished eye of The Almighty.
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130067
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The dead girl was his niece’s daughter. Only thirteen years old.
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130043
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Desert Storm, an Infrared Dream/Poem by the late David Avidan
On January 17, 1991 I woke up at 02:45 from a neo-surreal dream with a slight not very serious feeling of suffocation a pre-asthma attack instantly stifled with the inhalation of Ventolin an
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130032
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...he was suddenly and hazily relieved that he had something in Persepolis and blue agave plants to talk to her about.
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130032
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I’m glad they put the wall up. When it gets a little humid around here, I can smell those damn people.
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130000
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But she didn't. It would have been no historical anomaly if she had, by the way. She played with the world like it was a toy. Sometimes I wondered if I'd wake up in a box, a victim of live internment, and scream only to be humiliated later by her laughter
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13001817
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The courts had scheduled the date long ago but the time, an hour always left to the warden, had yet to be decided.
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130064
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you tell
a stranger's story...
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130010
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We called him Mickey Habanero, because he could fill his mouth with the hottest food imaginable, the kind packed with the sort of heat that would melt the gums from the teeth of a novice, all without taking a drink of milk or anything else that would otherwise soothe the…
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130041
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Jeans. You passed yours along to me with some helpful tips.
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130043
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IV. Upwards, into the white eye rising, There is will, to stay, yet stays no will to be. Come,…
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130065
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pulled the
wool off my head
found i
was almost dead
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130064
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His father whistles The Torreador's Song in the kitchen; Mirko smells bacon.
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130055
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If we go back in time
We are living in tents
If we go back in time
We are living in caves
We are fighting over rivers
We are fighting over fields
Near the soft edges of slime
If we go back in time
Nothing would have us
And we had t
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130043
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I'm not generally a believer. But I do sense things. I see things.
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130000
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And I mean part of me wanted to let him eat me, I thought maybe I owed him my body because I couldn’t enter his mind and I really wanted to on some level but we both knew that him eating me would just make us both feel awful—him because he’d wake up
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130050
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Flicking the cigarette into the river the man's face becomes soft, as if waving goodbye to the only real attachment that he has felt in decades.
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130072
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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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129921
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Neighbors trade novels
through windows
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129933
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You, who reaches in, touches me in that moment of decision, and knows I’ll be everything you’ve looked forward to tonight.
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129910
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A tanka poem inspired by the 40 million debit card numbers stolen from Target stores since Black Friday last month.
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1299158
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We are the same shits/
we were in the Bronze Age
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129941
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Dear Friend:
As a visitor to Wonderland in the past, you are truly among our most treasured friends. It is the enthusiasm for whimsy such as yours that spurs us to continue to provide perplexing chaos for which we are so widely esteemed, the better to
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129910
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Once upon a slime there was an Edenlike place that existed in outerspace all by itself. It was lonely, this little rock in space
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