1493 10 6
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Rainy eyes fall fast somewhere
close to me
Riding the wind like lust
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149300
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What do you mean dope in the front seat. I always keep my dope in the trunk. I mean hey, children DO steal.
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149343
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The photograph has no date,but these are my long-ago kin,ancestors just before the boat,six stone-faced on the English shore,sepia on cardstock under glassstill clear in severe, dark clothesexcept one who has been markedout, maybe with black wax,which runs to the bottom…
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149211
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For example, I never noticed that the moon had eyelashes, not until tonight. You said you couldn’t really see that, not at all. You preferred the fact that the word “lunatic” sounded like an attic on the moon...
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149265
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A human being is here. He doesn't disappear
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1492118
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Will it take the rise/
of cyber guerillas to finish it/
in the way it should be finished
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149267
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The dead girl was his niece’s daughter. Only thirteen years old.
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149231
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She seizes my hand. I resist just enough to sense her strength.
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149244
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It was far away and I don't know how we arrived. There were people about that were involved in getting boats into the water or else playing sports games atop green hills. They told me I should go out in a boat with this guy and that he would take me around the island. I…
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149200
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Try and put my bones back in
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149256
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In my life when I am pursued /
by some wildly delicate thing
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149233
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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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14921511
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My father taught me how to solder and that's when I first started to write. Now, when you hold the soldering iron in your hand and depress the trigger, the tip of the gun heats up. Novices uncoil the solder and place it on the hot tip, but that just results in it…
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149210
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One day over a hardscrabble dinner of gristly beef and lumpy mashed potatoes, his uncle looked up at him and said, “Kee-rist, boy, school’s gonna start any day now. And winter ain’t far behind. I can’t keep you here. We gotta figure out something for you.
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149264
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The rocks were pillows around her shorn head, the crimson stream running from her ears the only sign she had not chosen to lay down on them. Behind us, the rockface stood stoic; below us, the water lapped our feet.She held my hand in hers, giving me succor as I…
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149275
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Everything conspires to kill you:
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149121
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Even at five years old, I could tell that Eloise was haunted by ghosts that shook her core, leaving her dangling and seeking stability in slowly repeating her compulsive routines.
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1491106
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“still watersrun deep” is not my portionborn to make waves Formed from the ocean
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149133
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Wishing he holds you all night, unshaven chin/between your breasts.
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149184
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In the moment
I crinkle the aluminum foil,
The sandwich now a deeper
Part of me
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149122
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All I need is a break; to meet a woman who has access to a fruit fly database, either personally or through a trust established by her fruit-fly collecting grandfather.
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149122
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"...does the nurse, doctor or veterinarian experience greater sexual satisfaction than say the housewife in DesMoines or the sixth grade English teacher in Passaic?"
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149133
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Fragment’s of ignorance strewn by a haphazard hand
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149100
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I got kicked out of a soup and salad place last week for trying to buy a large soda so I could sit and eat my sack lunch there while I read “Love’s Desperate Creatures” by Dorothy Danville. Have you read it? Its great. I’ll give it to you when I’m done
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149132
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Bubbling from the hairline cracks in the glossy pavement of the new Einkaufszentrum in the town of Dachau oozes a mysterious thick red substance. Not blood, the mayor insists despite chemical analyses. And keep it quiet. Just…
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149144
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And if I lived a thousand lives...
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149144
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The Utah State Attorney General's office recently stated in a court filing that there is no constitutional right to marry a laptop.(Time, 6/19/17)Smartphones are spreading head lice.(New York, 7/10/17)People are less helpful when it's hot.(Time, 7/24/17)Online virtual…
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1491105
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Sitting in the SUV awaiting the trooper behind us I felt a warning tingle.
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149166
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149152
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“Please excuse the form letter, but due to the volume of god-awful submissions that we receive, we do not have the time to crush the spirit of each writer personally.”
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