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I have always been frightened of Ferris Wheels
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Steve lowers himself onto a lounge chair and lets out a long, overdue sigh. Cliff and Jim, the frickin’ and frackin’ of the built-in pool industry, are making a Burger Chef run while the cement sets.
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a name is what you are, and a name is a wall between. one day let me be earth, so you may be allowed to say you love me. for now i am separate. i'm afraid that's how i will die, and …
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the darkness held frieghtened by the surveillance of a distant white shimmer.
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He sees the dogs through the window, his babies, sleeping on opposite ends of the couch. His girl, lying supine, hind legs spread, grotesquely, almost comically, as far as they can without being flush with the cushion. His boy, Cosmo, face down, the power…
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Wild are the woods tucked in the backyards, tame the front lawns of green, manicured, with a hedge and a few flowers, a well-maintained driveway, and a garage door.
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Your face seems faint against the violet glades; The long winds echo once, then fail to start. Some wounding scent has stripped my hopes apart That dwelled to scent you. From the cavalcades The leaves make, bare at times since eve's sting fades To…
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She had the smile of a pixie on mushrooms in a disco ball universe, and I dug her style.
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The woman tapped a dark plastic stirrer on the tabletop in front of her to emphasize something she was saying.
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always thought you'd show up with a good friendly grin, your heart full of gnosis and the rest of you dressed in denim or terrene hues,back from across the world to honor our sacrosanct thing maybe it would be in the wind chiseled afternoon,or the dusk by tables…
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I once dreamed of taking a trip to Northumbria with a lover and reading the poem together on the fells.
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A single woman should regard every train ride as an opportunity, I once read in one of those “How to Find A Boyfriend” books. “When boarding the train, don't take the first available seat,“ the author advised. “Walk through all the cars…
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in the pink distance / a boy in a corduroy shirt / sits before an upended electrical spindle / and drinks a vodka gimlet
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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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We gig, we perform, we laugh, we cry, we play our guitars, bass, drums, voice.
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A gentle man,
and a fierce woman,
charmed one another
in a shaded gazebo.
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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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124822
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This is the record of a drowning.
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I want to write a story about a woman who lies to men about her height.
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the small break of consciousness that is my dreamswaterso much wateri can never forgive the watertoo many tears
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...she had marked the stars with a blue pen, connected the dots to make Andromeda, Cassiopeia, told us of the gods behind the stars...
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“It’s time we moved our relationship back into an upright position,” I said.
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There were ten thousand photographs buried in the bottom of the jar
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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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1247135
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each act of creation is a jolt of expectation
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Shut up.You shut up.That's disgusting.You should talk.Fuck off.Fuck me.whore.Yes.More.Shut up.
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Her eyes still fixed on him as if to whisper her concerns of fidelity.
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—You're convinced I'm crazy. I'm convinced you're incompetent.
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the sour waft of a secret
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