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We perform our chosen duty— naming/
beauties and atrocities within
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136011
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“I love women. They’re like goddesses.”
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136000
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136065
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Anneliese inserted one of her crystal drops in Hymen's left ear and kept her left earring in. For a quarter, she bought a handful of cashews and plopped them on a red napkin.
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135922
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I had the idea while I was in the county jail. I would get jail glasses; I wouldn’t be me; I’d be some other person. I could pretend that it was someone else rotting away in that 8x12 cell.
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135976
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Whistler pounded a nuanced nail,
into our inferior foreheads.
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1359144
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. . . once you start reading and thinking about what he's saying, it's like looking at the reflection of your soul in a mirror . . .
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135941
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He gave her everything she hoped for, with the exception of two things.
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135900
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It’s that time of year. The combustible mixture of booze, poinsettia corsages and the soulful sounds of Eddie Venturi and the Fastidians will cause people to get up and dance at holiday office parties who have no business doing so.
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1359149
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and you imagine euthanizing them if what she says is true, that she is leaving them to you in her will.
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135975
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I dreamt, said the Donkey, of an apricot. An apricot the size of a heart. …
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135944
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The man next door came over with a pitchfork.
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1359108
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If you stop, you starve//
and they just offer what you do/
to others, starved already,/
and schooled, as you, in servitude.
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135921
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Wild bore the wind down on me, coming out of the heavens that turned around the stars of the evening. The longing and the appetite at work in the body, all tickling to open a girl’s mane, gaping, health-giving crossroads to the body. Hail and farewell t
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135900
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By the time I was born, my parents were already sickened, blackened, blighted people.
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135943
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135901
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Dina was a woman obsessed. She had endured a three hour layover in Chicago and another four in Heathrow for this. (The flight she had enjoyed with a few glasses of red and an HGTV show about plumbing that she could watch again and again.) She had staked out this corner of…
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135941
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We gave our cigarettes names.
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135951
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The roses ask for you when I smell them
They seem to remember your touch more than
others. They can’t bear it when you’re gone
and wonder when you’ll be returning
I am beginning to do the same
I no longer go outdoors to be with them
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135800
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The white Boeing 747, all three hundred and sixty eight seats of it, prepared to depart from Johannesburg Airport. Mild conditions on a clear flight path coupled with the soothing voice of the first officer didn't allay my unease. I offered a friendly nod to the…
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135853
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Her name was Christine
and she was nailed to the cross
of their lust
and their greed,
and their vengeance
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135884
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In the moment
I crinkle the aluminum foil,
The sandwich now a deeper
Part of me
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135820
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I’m starting to feel more interested in my savings account.
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1358127
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contacts, false eyelashes, strappy open-toed sandals
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135865
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You're sitting in a darkened theatre with Gothic ceilings and one exit watching the latest Alan Ladd film with William Bendix and Veronica Lake.
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135811
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Leaning toward Joshua, Stuart says softly, “Take it easy, okay? We’ll bury him. He shouldn’t be left here, in your kitchen.”
Joshua glares. “Don’t you fucking move him.”
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135822
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The Argument: A couple of young female lovers, one slightly older than the other one, decide to part ways. The elder has contracted a terminal illness, and they decide the best way to part ways would be by joining together through a suicide pact.…
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135896
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Wind was a sorry excuse for force
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135864
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My head is nailed to yesterday.
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135888
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now I cannot shake. I am only one person. Thereis a sadness I cannot understand. Fathom. Control. Manipulate. Detonate.I used to kiss her tenderly. Do you think this sadness is wise to us? Don't point that gun at me! There is a sadness. There is another war. Iam…
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