1256 5 4
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A gentle man,
and a fierce woman,
charmed one another
in a shaded gazebo.
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125685
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Mari thinks that's all fine and fucking dandy.
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125600
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the darkness held frieghtened by the surveillance of a distant white shimmer.
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125664
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when you betrayed the vain ambition of my death,/I did not complain.
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125622
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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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125643
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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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125500
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“It’s time we moved our relationship back into an upright position,” I said.
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125542
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No freebies. You want to read it, you have to read all of it.
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125500
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During the hangover, I crawl to my desktop computer and then Google “rapid STI testing” and “speedy divorce”
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125554
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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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Metropolitan I. Atlantic harbinger of this our swaddled dawn: Mistaking moon's sea sweep for this the frown The sky's plain-countenanced creatures maytimes weep Upon the surface-sundown of our lawn, When gaily surfaced for…
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125563
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—You're convinced I'm crazy. I'm convinced you're incompetent.
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125521
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The elephant was breakable and I know that my grandmother held her breath every time I went near it, and I was repeatedly cautioned that it was not to be played with only admired. She taught me in her own way, respect for it. She may have commented on the green with a bit…
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125554
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Is there a homunculus in my brain guiding everything like the pilot of an airliner?
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125511
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Salted sea of summer fingers- sand and salted skinmelt in me; vanilla ice cream lick- your lips; salty kiss saliva- sweet salt of semen run down my chin languid-salty sweat of you.
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125532
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Franz Kafka opens the refrigerator
And removes a bowl of jello
With the face of Bella Abzug in it
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125542
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The air smells like dream, like farm shit, like the salty stalling of evolution.
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125511
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A 20-footer up on skids
sky-blue paint beneath the bondo
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125501
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It loomed -- unavoidable.
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125582
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I have always been frightened of Ferris Wheels
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125574
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The energies align to compel you,/
wave by field, charge by pulse, into/
an ever increasing circle of speed
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125541
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Dragonfly She danced out of the burning rubble, wrapped in a shawl made of iridescent silk. It must have been her grandmother's. Her arms were wings, the silk translucent and fluttering. Fire fell from the sky. Thatched roofs, walls of mud-daubed sticks, the huts…
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He is sitting in the infinite rain
and the water is making him some infinite silhouette
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125420
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Her eyes still fixed on him as if to whisper her concerns of fidelity.
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125420
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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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125421
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Roy Williams was his real name. It had been for the last 15 years. Since retiring from the Firm he’d lived innocuously in an apartment near the Old City walls of Dubrovnik doing the occasional quick job for them. You never entirely retired from the Firm.
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125400
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"That it was my stepdad's fault."
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Have you measured the cups, the conveyors' yield? Do you know the span? I am the LORD your God, she murmured.
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125453
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only thoughts lost in lonely trails of red
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