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140222
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What a great feeling it was, the day I first thought about and discovered how toilets work. Nearly as exciting as the day I learned wheelbarrel is actually spelled wheelbarrow.
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140231
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She seizes my hand. I resist just enough to sense her strength.
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140263
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...my books have lots of swear words. So there's that.
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140244
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140200
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Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh; the rhythmic thrust of Mezereon’s wings…Th-Bumm, th-bumm, th-bumm; the drumming of his heart…Hooou, hooou, hooou; the exhalations of his breath…
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140241
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The last thing I heard was a loud retch
The loudest retch I have ever heard
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140233
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we ran that afternoon/across Bayshore lanes/into green blooming fields, beyond all those
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140294
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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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140241
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I was like a bullet shot from a university tower
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1402139
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There's a witch in Laurel Canyon.She made Wes a promise.Her bungalow smelled like Parliaments. Parliaments, garlic frying in olive oil. Parliaments, garlic frying in olive, and a freshly opened pack of Red Vines. Wes could have curled up into a ball and fallen asleep on her…
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140297
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I see them walking. They pass right by my house. If I’m outside, I sit down on our porch and watch the parade. Sometimes I watch them out of a front window.
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140286
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My table offers up the gutted calf/
with carrots and potatoes yanked /
alive and whole
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140265
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Anneliese inserted one of her crystal drops in Hymen's left ear and kept her left earring in. For a quarter, she bought a handful of cashews and plopped them on a red napkin.
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140122
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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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140154
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Along with Bad Bunny
comes the reckless dancing
the ambulance chases
and the long, drawn-on faces
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140164
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Beware of shouting Dress Barn, Dress Barn! when having an orgasm
And don’t tell him you were seeing Starbucks when you came
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140182
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I had ink for blood then and “the news” was my oxygen.
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140153
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140111
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It was a mildly windy day of the working week in the financial district of the city—the bright morning sun was out—when a security guard was called to the fifteenth floor to deal with a disruption.
“This way.”
Someone pointed to a desk. At the desk
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140131
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I know you through the rich dark brown soilcrumbling in my fingers like chocolate cake.I imagine you nurtured bell-shaped papayas,coaxing their smooth, leathery skinfrom green to yellow,while mangoes, the colors of the island sunset,hung with their tantalizing sweet…
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140142
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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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140135
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Does God feel the same way /
whenever you practice your indifference toward me
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140185
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Picture it-/
air not clogged with the shit//
that makes Beijing the dark joke/
of the developed world.
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140122
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I’m just your ordinary poem,
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140100
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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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140140
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But that last night in Europe, getting ready to fly out of Amsterdam back to the States, I heard this Phil Collins song, “In the Air Tonight,” which expressed some of the turmoil and confusion and whole-life hysteria I was feeling inside. Waves of fru
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140162
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her expressive sigh releasing. Sated. The last of our kind, evolving flightless we remain on the ground, culling through corpulent consumption.
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140131
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Ashford Garth Willingsham IV stood looking out at the Gulf of Mexico from his mansion on Longboat Key. In his right hand was a letter from his divorce lawyer, Reynard Foxx...
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140033
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The man who put up the clothes line left his kids upstairs at night and came down to my bed.
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