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She had endured three years of abuse for those hot, fleeting moments of tenderness—just enough warmth to keep her second-guessing the bitter frost. Now the ring promised a lifetime of biting back her pain.
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you happen to me like motorcycle tricks
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state a shambles, mountains and rivers endure./meanwhile, the city hides amidst spring's thick growth . . .
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The guy – it’s Billy Krazik - turns and aims at Jamie Stockwell, sitting there calmly as if he’s in the play or something and he takes two to the head.
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I wonder if she is my real mother, if I could get one of those paternity tests and find out if she’s my real mother and if the guy she told me was my father was really my father. I can’t remember him very well, just a lot of him screaming and hollering an
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The woman leapt from the top of the burning building. The flames reddened the faces of the watching crowd. The heat pushed them back. The woman hit the ground. The crowd oooooed. If only I'd been a firewoman, I thought, with a ladder as tall as a building and a…
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You sleep. The time is soft and slow.
Your dreams are covered with the snow.
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128433
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Life's a beach? A bitch? Same thing.
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There were ten thousand photographs buried in the bottom of the jar
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Her name was Carrie. And yes, it was love at first sight. Yes, she was a client, and you were supposed to keep your hands off the clients. Everyone in real estate knew that. She came into my office and took a seat in the reception area. I had a listing on Cedar…
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Maybe it takes as much fortitude
To forget
As it does
To remember.
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"Shouldn’t I be able to easily get my arms around nothing?”
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As she slunk to her topless Mercedes
sparkling curbside, wax job hand rubbed
in Hamburg, testosterone heads turned
wishing similar treatment.
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The outside world will intrude . . .
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We exist to facilitate/
successful conclusions of hopeless lives.
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JOSEPH YOUNG Joseph Young You might start with the top of the head, where the heat goes. This is first, first from the womb, the first word. Joseph Young There might have been a faith that placed it in the mouth, not the…
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It's important to sound
human, I know
To get fragile
near your
mother
I myself
get glimpses
now and then
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So you printed your resume on this coffee cup - that’s something
- I wanted you guys to think about me every morning - while you were getting your coffee
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Well, now it has fallen away some
but I felt better about it when it was raging
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128441
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Tree full of dimes and dollars
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She positioned the mouse cursor over the word Bikini and double clicked. The hard drive of the ageing work PC chugged into life as an Excel document dragged itself onto the screen.
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Mari thinks that's all fine and fucking dandy.
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She locked herself in the bathroom on our wedding night. That was my first clue that I had made a mistake.
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This is the record of a drowning.
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each act of creation is a jolt of expectation
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“still watersrun deep” is not my portionborn to make waves Formed from the ocean
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Seeing her in black /
with his arm around her /
from the other side /
of a glass door. /
He gave her a beer. /
She might’ve been thirsty, /
uncomfortable.
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Touch these words with your mind. They will create an elephant with an unidentifiable itch.
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The one at
dusk is not the one you met this morning.
That one's gone like a head in the window.
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