1108 3 3
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Your mother was married to a Minotaur
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1108129
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...it was moving toward me from an oblique angle somewhere behind, steadily, relentlessly.
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110821
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In moving crowds I plan to break you.
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110800
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Emi paced back and forth, fixing her jacket out of nervousness. The cool breeze crawled around her skin and she shivered.
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110897
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Some of the elderly men and women are coming forward....
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110811
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Lester walked back into the house. He was hungry but didn’t know what he wanted to eat. Really, he couldn’t remember how to fix anything he wanted. He walked over to turn on the television, but couldn’t find the on/off button. Surely the damn thing had an
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110866
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Then I did the same to you, inhaling your scent which was one thing at your hairline and another at your collarbone.
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110811
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“Where is my mom?” I think. I shouldn't have to be here alone. I am twenty two years old, strung-out on methamphetamine and sitting in a courtroom. It is the third day of the murder trial. My son was the victim. He was only two and his…
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110800
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“She’s very sick. She’s dying,” and he smoothed my hair along my neck.
“It’s leukemia. A very rare type,” his hand reached my shoulder and stopped there.
“She only has a few months.”
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110721
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Fumes of sugar rose to Kofi's brain - intense, foreign, disquieting. At every turn of the handle, Kofi wouldn´t know which flavour would suddenly prevail, whether he would like it, or how long it would last …
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110733
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Life's a beach? A bitch? Same thing.
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110766
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I'd like to grow you a new flower. I thinkmaybe I just will. Right now. Here's as good a place as any. Well you'll probably never get to see it, but it will be there just the same and it will be all yours. Kind of like these poems that I make if…
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110741
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The cicadas hissed and chirruped until the air was thick with a noise like mechanical bedsprings bouncing for the 4th of July.
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110743
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Write power
like a purring kitten
eyes wide
without an idea of exactly
how small he is.
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110751
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a man sees salamander bands / a-cracklin on the scree
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110700
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Without light it is black.
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110799
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How many exceptional people/
does it take to change a light bulb?
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110733
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Tokarsky and I got chased off an El train by a couple of mean-looking black dudes who looked like they were going to crush us. I let go a spritz of tear gas that I had on me in the train and we ran as it came to a stop at the Morris Street stop. They chas
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110712
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I slept and it was pleasant. Then there was the kiss, and it was hot. Later you turned away, and all was November chill. Now there are touches, caresses and shouts, Marvelous nights flavored with favors bestowed, and blackened days,…
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110755
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Some nights I want to take my father’s glock / and build my skull a sunroof.
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11071811
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It could be fun,/
with the guns, explosives, Molotov/
Cocktails and all,
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1107114
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I thought of you todayand what you put me throughthe time you saidwe couldn't rest.
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110722
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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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110765
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pulled the
wool off my head
found i
was almost dead
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110732
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I guess it was, you know, a daze thing: He, lightly drunk, turning red in parts of his head, in his cheeks mostly, and his chest, to which my eyes were drawn because of his v-neck douchebag shirt; and I, sleepy beyond belief, sustained like a zombie only
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110731
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the vigilance that informs a parent's every hour had momentarily lapsed
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110733
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had I gotten home without knowing it? well . . .
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110700
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My heart was a puzzle completely incomplete,
until I learned of love in your embrace.
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110732
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She is not centered, but she finds her way.
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110711
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Been running so long
You've been running so long
I bet you can't remember
What you're running from
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