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I want you to tell me the truth, she said. The whole fucking truth.
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Your mother was married to a Minotaur
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As a child I drowned myself in the pages of books, and as a writer I prefer to be left alone with my imagination.
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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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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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She’d reached me after running through the directory, alphabetically. Apparently no one in the a’s or b’s or c’s before me would talk to her.
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(2:56 a.m.): "Hi it's Charlie it's Pat at 4:00 in the morning my time. I just wanna tell you that I wouldn't mind getting him in bed with you the rest of my life."
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purely fun,
humane, scientific,
old time religious
experimentation
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i watch my mind not wanting to touch the vanished rusty notes remain objects of consciousness heaven and hell inside us each moment birds fly through mental speech dark garden rain olive green cool breath of betrayal siempre mixed with greed awakens…
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For weeks they used every medium to say: This day will be an end or a beginning.
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i once knew a place where lost souls gathered. there were various itinerants and the ill-intentioned, the malevolent and hard-hearted. but there were also many good ones and that was a type of charm upon the area. good souls can be lost also, and this is what some…
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Sitting in the SUV awaiting the trooper behind us I felt a warning tingle.
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Darling Valentine’s pale legs shone in the dark, a beacon for the car driving without headlights along a tree-lined row of brownstones.
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Then I see her walking down the grass aisle: my assignment. She looks nothing like the image I have been trained with, but her identifier is strong.
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In the small towns of central and southern Illinois there lives a very indecent sort of man.
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The screen door slowly opened. I was expecting the second / coming of perfection.
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Goddamned crabs. He got em. Lenny. Itch. Itch. Itch. Scratch. Scratch. Scratch.
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But my point is, this isn’t a Thomas Kinkade. It’s not like you can pay me fifty dollars and I can drive to the Twombly store and buy another Twombly.
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we ran that afternoon/across Bayshore lanes/into green blooming fields, beyond all those
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They prize how she makes shit up on short notice
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Charlie Hancock missed the bus. Started walking.
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I visited his loft last week. There were many exciting new pictures. Francesco was your main money earner before, now he will be again.
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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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We sat around the ocean table and ate eyes on ham
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Like when she said the word 'but', it came out ‘bet’.
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It is well known around town that Ray's dad went crazy. Today, when asked, everyone will tell you that they knew all along he had a screw loose, told their wife, “That Mick Borkowski's gone bat-shit.” But when it was happening, no one paid it any…
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I first saw her about a year after I moved back, when I went to Dairy Queen. I know. Dairy Queen!? Ever since I was a kid, I have had a love for the dipped cones. When I used to visit my father on weekends, we would always stop at Dairy Queen on the way back to…
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Coffee comes in KCups and you can't fight five wars at the same time.
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