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My table offers up the gutted calf/
with carrots and potatoes yanked /
alive and whole
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139653
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The questions piled up so high I thought I'd neverget through the door.The ease of alcohol, the incline of submission. Guttural sounds and spittle.Wipe down the morning afterwith a shower.Redress in last night's clothes.There's coffee if you want it.Sincerity too -no,…
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139642
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Yellows and reds shed
warp and weft
bobbins of color
spooling...
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139510
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They all knew he had cancer before the doctors gave the final verdict. His wife wept and his parents held him tightly. It was a dreadful time for all. Out in the hall his children looked on with fearful faces and shook their heads as he begged them inside with a…
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139511
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Eating my teeth off pulling the silk from my lips and swallowing each kerchief wholejust trying to find the priest who has his heart set on a motorcycle
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139533
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Sad to tears, not bubbly, ordered as all in Madison, outpatient by Elizabeth Karlin, internist, later a bullet-proof vest abortion provider.
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139500
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She once told me that cleanliness is next to godliness, but I think everything is next to godliness, if you care enough to pay attention.
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139541
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The last thing I heard was a loud retch
The loudest retch I have ever heard
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139542
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139533
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we ran that afternoon/across Bayshore lanes/into green blooming fields, beyond all those
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139594
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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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139585
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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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139597
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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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139531
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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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139410
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139400
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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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139434
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My friend, drunk, spoke to me / outside a bar where we hung out; / and his eyes were red from tiredness,
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139464
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i am two / one part me / another part them
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139464
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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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139482
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I had ink for blood then and “the news” was my oxygen.
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139422
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He will feast and die beneath the glaring gaze of the western sky, waiting patiently for what will come next
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139400
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139411
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They run nonstop for weeks. Between traffic stalled cars. Down forgotten subways tunnels drilled long ago in the cold earth. Past burning sugarcane fields.
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139420
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If you had gotten pregnant our last time, in 1967 (when you lied and told me “I guess I’m finally over you,”) then our son could have been that man you saw with the drooping moustache and his coattails flying in the lobby of the building in Louisville,
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139400
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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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139411
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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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139443
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I’m just living in my RV
Guess my parking karma won
Got some pigeons for my pets
Cause I’m sorta on the run
I’m just living in my RV
And I’m not the only one
But I’m getting kinda bummed
Cause I miss my little hon
Tried to kick my gambl
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139431
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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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1394119
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I lay on a table in a cold room in one of those little blue gowns that open in back.
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1394105
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Sitting in the SUV awaiting the trooper behind us I felt a warning tingle.
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