1493 9 6
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Birds fly and people
hurry in the wind and rain like it's a matter
of pity.
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149311
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In the vaultwhere no one had daredsince your first stillborn screamsI swept out your deadThe gnawing thingsboneless and dustyand stinking of churchesYou came to me thenand I took youthere in the shadowsunder the tree on the grassnear the reeds by the lakeI dived in your…
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14931612
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you escape by finding the bubbles
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149354
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Uzma dashes up the stairs ahead of me . . .
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149322
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Quickly enough, it became clear, however, that this was really all about offers you could not refuse, allegations you could not contest, arrests you could not understand and acts you would not survive.
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149301
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The duty of a student
can be summed up in a sentence
To benefit the race of man
with thoughtful independence
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149321
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Keisha selected a strawberry swirl cupcake from the waiter's tray, so pretty, from the hottest, coolest, newest patisserie. Moist strawberrylishious cake, swirly pink frosting, sprinkles. Keisha was one lucky lady, scoring a bizdev gig at recession-proof…
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149300
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You know when you’re in church and your older brother does something funny and you’re laughing and your dad grabs your elbow to make you shut up, but that’s even funnier still and you keep laughing and you know you shouldn’t be laughing because you’re in
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149320
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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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149300
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I beat that dog with an open hand, clenching him between my thighs.
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149253
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I arrange 15 restatements of how lovely you are forward then backward, horizontally then vertically then along the diagonals.
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149265
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1492123
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But this ache wouldn't leave me.
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1492106
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a girl in a red cap
flashes by
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149284
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She loves you when your words leave her dirty, semi-transparent, at times, overexposed.
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149253
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This mother, she buys a one way ticket
whenever she visits her three daughters
who have wandered far from the eyes of
her pearlescent knitting needles and tutti-frutti yarns.
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14921211
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The police states of German National Socialism/
and the Soviet Union are but pencil studies
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1492128
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A friend's remark about androgyny, "it's overrated," she said.
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149261
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Everybody will be talking about it
on campuses across the country
“Hey! You’ll never guess who’s toilet
I bought. I’m not shitting you!”
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149288
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I was insufficiently abused as a child.
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149264
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149266
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I polished his shoes to an avid black; sewed buttons backand mended torn silk and cotton.His clothing was my busy work. Needle, thread, stitch, and iron,I was his apothecary of linens.Blood, wine, soup, vomit --these I cleaned too, until all theircolor and scent…
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149221
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"More and more levels of physicality. And his eyes, man. His eyes were all wet, and... sparkly.”
“Wow.”
“Yeah. And before I can stop the escalation, he's massaging my heart.”
“Get the f__k out..."
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14921511
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She was not the usual member of the band, not the girl nextdoor, not next to any door, not a regular housekeeper or woman. She was a ditch digger, a pied, circular piper, a mouse hugger.
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149288
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It all began with me. I was first and for many years, the only.
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149232
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Once upon a time he'd thought her as cold a fish as her aristocratic husband
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149163
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On Tuesday, he wears his suit to the cafe. Of course they'll let him pay! Of course. Under the table, his wife accepts their wadded bills.
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149123
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I underline the passages Momma does in her Bible and circle the same words she does, of the oil Samuel uses to anoint David...
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149131
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No one takes me seriously because I am an idiot.
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149100
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"It is my argument that a pious fraud has been perpetrated so as to subject mankind to the most humiliating of intellectual enslavements."
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