1312 3 3
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Why, these were the young hands
that I kissed only last night.
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131211
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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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13121710
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I arrange my stones in circles
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131221
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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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1312129
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We perform our chosen duty— naming/
beauties and atrocities within
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131211
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Hands and fingers feeling down
Cross the boundaries I laid
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131285
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Mari thinks that's all fine and fucking dandy.
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131243
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Hail the yellow cab the yellow one will do just fine as second condiment to the sun
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131255
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Then I am in Washington DC impersonating an accountant.
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131121
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Where are you going, boy who never was?
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131121
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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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1311127
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contacts, false eyelashes, strappy open-toed sandals
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131151
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At 19 words, the whole piece is a snippet.
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131100
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Good kid. Awesome job in big cities. Travels a lot. Enjoys Martinis and G&T. She's a romantic. Spends her time online trolling people into submission. Likes softcore porn. Sets cats on fire. Collects stamps.
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131181
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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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131120
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Clatters and clatters ensued, and the splash destroyed all denial.
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131132
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In my mind the village of 300 souls is called Nedoweska, but I confess that that's just a dreamy nickname I had for it as a boy. For various geopolitical reasons it had since become noteworthy as a historical site, though our interest was purely personal.…
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131100
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Lips to graceful curve, / Found a well from which / This dancing lifeblood comes / (Again and again)...
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13111612
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you escape by finding the bubbles
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131111
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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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13111511
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My father taught me how to solder and that's when I first started to write. Now, when you hold the soldering iron in your hand and depress the trigger, the tip of the gun heats up. Novices uncoil the solder and place it on the hot tip, but that just results in it…
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131121
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I woke up when the smoke alarm insisted. Either the curtains were on fire or I hadn't changed the battery.
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131141
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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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131084
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An infested, indifferent universe . . .
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131043
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131032
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To conceive of them separated was unthinkable to every wet-eyed soul at the burial.
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131020
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He did not seek a place on a cabinet, nor to impress stockholders with placards of wealth and return; he did not enumerate the downtrodden and asocial with advertised miracle treatments, or write a best seller on the markings of success. All he did, all h
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131022
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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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131041
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She’s new, with the enthusiasm of a new person. And everyone wants the new girl.
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131044
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The man next door came over with a pitchfork.
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