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I gently honked my horn and gave her the kind of friendly neighbor wave that only friendly neighbors can give. She didn’t wave back. What the hell is her problem?
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Ymir used to be a big nothing;Now he's everything.His hair is the grass, the trees, the reedsHis scalp is the desertHis skull is the empty vault of spaceHis brain is telecommunicationsHis skin is a reality made of matter and miragesHis forehead is the Ten CommandmentsHis…
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126600
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It was a bright day in April, the cruelest month, and the gears and pumps of the train beat on into the still air.
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That was some root beer float. It cost us a grand total of $275.
She pulls up in front of Fenton’s Ice Cream Parlor and leaves the motor running while I jump out and run into the parlor.
It was early evening. We HAD to have a root beer float. You
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126651
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a man sees salamander bands / a-cracklin on the scree
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126652
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He remembers, he touches,
he lifts and kisses the mouth.
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126621
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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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126611
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The priest went into the place in those parts, the priest an old pear or grape gotten ripe and then moreso, but never actually expiring . He was hunched and it looked like he was broken at some integral part, but nobody could tell for sure where. One time, a bat…
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a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single
ticket
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126684
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In the moment
I crinkle the aluminum foil,
The sandwich now a deeper
Part of me
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126600
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It’s just another
Day where I feel tired, but I
Don’t know why it’s so.
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126620
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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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On the ridge in front of them, appeared a creature, neither man had ever seen before, standing taller than their horses, the strange beast walked on two powerful legs...
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126600
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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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126613
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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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126644
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We'll all face the raging river, some sooner than others.
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126642
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you happen to me like motorcycle tricks
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126611
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Lester walked back into the house. He was hungry but didn’t know what he wanted to eat. Really, he couldn’t remember how to fix anything he wanted. He walked over to turn on the television, but couldn’t find the on/off button. Surely the damn thing had an
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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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126675
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Everything conspires to kill you:
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126581
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Buck, naked, has no words. The best he can manage is a dopey strangulated cough. His wife, who is clothed, stands before him, next to the waterbed that took Buck half a day to force into the trailer.
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Can we ever truly know reality? I don’t think so. But fly in comfort my friend. Lean back and enjoy the thrust of those engines.
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If you were glassI'd fog you up With my breathI'd leave messagesPictographsIn fingerprints I'd press in closeSo would youAnd so we'd danceBut you are glassAn inch of depthTo catch my breath
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126521
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They put me in charge of developing a drug that stifles fear.
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126524
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What
I learned/one summer/in the North East/Thessaloniki heat was. . . .
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126573
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Lullaby for a dragon baby who breaks the bough with bottled fists escapes the armored cradle stealing swords from terra cotta men to slash the Ming canopy and loose the butterflies that will free
Ho Chi Minh from the fire.
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126594
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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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They might think that loneliness has made me gullible, more than willing to open for them all kinds of drawers.
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126521
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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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She’d reached me after running through the directory, alphabetically. Apparently no one in the a’s or b’s or c’s before me would talk to her.
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