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Bud Light, B. O.
and Freeloader Heaven,
they step onto the
back of the bus without a cent
We pass by the Karma Wash
but no one gets off the bus
We pass by the
Endless Soup and Salad Kitchen
where we witness a crowd
swarming over a ch
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135053
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There is a woman in here- I am never alone- but she is fully clothed in Detroit Derby Dolls gear and stands at a modest seven inches tall.
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135031
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the vigilance that informs a parent's every hour had momentarily lapsed
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135021
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When Reg Cuff heard that Sandlewick's abandoned Tiny Town model village was up for sale, he sold his home and failing business and moved right in.
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135044
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Write me a Will you laughing boy,
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135031
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The night I screamed you out of my life for good, I fed your confettied photo to swirling toilet, a ticker tape parade and dead fish burial rolled into one. Later I found the box, a jiffy…
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1350189
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Each day, I lose more words-/
nouns and verbs- but especially//
proper names. People and places
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134995
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You wanted transcendence, wanted height, danger, the tracks blurred into murky distances behind and in front of you. You slipped, reached for it, starlight shining in your eyes, something you didn't have when I held your hand. We didn't fold the…
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Then they made him stay after school and met with his parents. Scott was sent outside to play in an empty playground. He didn’t feel like playing. He sat on the steps outside the classroom and listened to his Dad shouting through the plastic walls.
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Mum and Dad are dead, though I'm the only person who has noticed. They're sipping their tea in the kitchen. Dad keeps coughing up maggots. Mum's face looks like a cracked mirror: I see myself in it, broken, dark. My brothers carry on as normal. They huddle by the TV,…
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—You're convinced I'm crazy. I'm convinced you're incompetent.
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They watch her, scald her skin with hot eyes whose stares run up and down her body like lice.
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134932
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Franz Kafka opens the refrigerator
And removes a bowl of jello
With the face of Bella Abzug in it
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134944
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the carnival ride hurtles the spinning man over canyons of light and barkers & streams of cotton candy girls
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134933
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It is dead, for a time.
Sometimes we are all dead for a time.
Our lives leave off, sleep under the weight of snow.
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134966
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(no one need fear timidity in our tastes― /
we like trying new things, no matter our hastes!)
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134900
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look at the shape here / is it not pleasing to the eye?
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[VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.]
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Luv walks around touching everything with her little hands. Uzma follows behind her, talking sweetly, saying: "This is going to be your new home for a while, darling."
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134800
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He called me Jay. I called him Dr Corvid. Until the very end, we lived alone. We had no use for any other companionship. I was Dr Corvid's finest achievement until he perfected his Disintegration Ray. I was the first working prototype of Project Novus.Dr Corvid created me…
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134812
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indelicate, as everything arrives at once.
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One day, every girl I’ve ever slept with showed up on my lawn.
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I know I used to say I’d rather walk on the moon with my own rapacity. And you can easily say things like that, given the luxuriance of youth. But it was a lie, if you want to know the truth. That is only so much hot balloon air, puffed up in the chest,
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134840
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I'm an artist, baby. We make our own rules.
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1348107
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Charlie Hancock missed the bus. Started walking.
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134832
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^ through a busted window in this desert…
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In the center of the big diorama, the real world hangs in the air by a hook.
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134844
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It began the night my parents took my brother and I to see The Vikings at the drive-in and the trailer for The Girl Can't Help It came on the screen, introduced by the completely acceptable Tom Ewell, which the folks could swallow, he was one of them, but as soon as…
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a man and a woman in a room at the end of the world.
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