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He fought off the U-boat packs in the Atlantic — one hand on the tiller, one on the torpedo launch button.
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131722
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You are rounded just the way the mountain is, out the window. The sun sets on both of you now. Three of you, I should say: the mountain, and you, and little Frank, who is currently batting my ear because he doesn't want to be named Frank but it's for your dead father,…
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131702
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Looking down you wonder, when did I eat pineapple? and Am I really this awesome or am I a facsimile of something that really sucks, even if it's that 'it's so bad it's good' kind of thing? Nope, it's just bad.
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131721
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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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131731
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Flowing, Flown In the field stands a jealous man with fifteen eyes stored inside the cuffs of well-worn khaki pants. His pockets pull with clinking dimes…
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131733
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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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131786
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She wakes up lip-syncing the remnants of a dream: the throb of cherry blossoms, the whine of lotus flowers.
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131722
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131711
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She remembers the days when she could have purchased every card in the store and found the words to fill them all.
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131776
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One/
can’t always trust the eye and ear//
in such matters but what can one do?/
Mistakes will be made.
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131743
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Need not remember, the 6th of November.
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131700
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My heart was a puzzle completely incomplete,
until I learned of love in your embrace.
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131700
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There was a bird on the windowsill, a sparrow, its silhouette backlit by a view of Uptown. She remembered many sparrows during her forced trips to Mercy Hospital...That was all over now...
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131755
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Then I am in Washington DC impersonating an accountant.
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131751
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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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131684
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An infested, indifferent universe . . .
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131610
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He, an irregular chap,
Was known for his hat with a flap.
Had fleet feet and a very strong back.
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131600
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There was a motley assortment of customers in the restaurant. Mostly casually dressed young men and women who looked like freelancers of some persuasion.
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131620
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here’s the deal…
sorrow follows tears…
pain later for the happiness now…
is the joy something we only borrow…?
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131644
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The man next door came over with a pitchfork.
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1316159
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Squeeze the Word into Flesh
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131630
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After our first kiss,
a team of scientists
scrubbed away the cancer
of your lipstick.
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131685
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Mari thinks that's all fine and fucking dandy.
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131622
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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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131621
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You sleep. The time is soft and slow.
Your dreams are covered with the snow.
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131522
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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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131522
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The house where my brother lived up in the hills above Hollywood, looked like any other suburban house on any normal street Anywhere USA, except that once you got inside the house — spread out at your feet was a panoramic view over a canyon that was act
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131543
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It’s quite simple - don’t move.
No fake or feint - just stand your ground.
The fixed gaze, the thousand yard stare, hold your place.
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131533
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Why, these were the young hands
that I kissed only last night.
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