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My Mother always said that a storm was death knocking.
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...swallowed like a radiant yolk by an epicurean barracuda.
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the injured color wheel of the world
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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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[VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.]
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“In other words you're going to lie through your teeth..."
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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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We love our other animals
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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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She was from Tennessee,
with advantages over me.
An upbringing surrounded by books
and sensitivity.
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Not the torn magazine page, not the smell of ink, not the sweat of palm nor the froth of irish spring
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That afternoon, after I'd swallowed that weight. Felt like a sinker, one of those weights that fishermen attach to their line to make sure the line goes down far enough. Go down far enough there, and I'll find it. That's what I was on about, that I had…
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It made him feel better to imagine she was someone else, someone he didn't know. This comfort bothered him
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thunder striking in a pancake cumulative, his building bouncing upon itself, life going Richtor Scale, a billion pounds of panic per square second
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Falling asleep remembering lies that had been built around lies
Lies to impress people
Lies to make life more convenient
Lies, I didn’t even know why I told them.
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There I was at the OPEN HOUSE. It was easy, three doors down. The sign on the lawn said, PRICE REDUCED. The real estate lady said, “Back again? Thinking of buying”? I laughed. There were several couples there. People have…
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Let me say these words now
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To conceive of them separated was unthinkable to every wet-eyed soul at the burial.
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She heads toward the end of the island and doesn't look back.
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I remember going out to a restaurant with some guy and a friend of mine who brought her little boy along. And suddenly her boy said, “I want to hear the man talk.” Well, that stopped us. Smart kid, I thought. He was fed up hearing her women friends talk
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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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Azure lowered her head, nearly burying it in the window, watching the helicopter land.
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It’s the middle-aged jazz musician who tends to get lost in the shuffle; no longer news, and not ready for the marble statue-treatment.
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I lost my job but the government found me a new one. Now the government pays me to pretend I’m a travelling businessman. I fly around the country to imaginary meetings. It’s part of a project to make it look like the economy is doing well.
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It’s the Tea, stupid. Drink up.
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whenever i see youit feels like birds are flyingin and out of my facemy head is ghost-like and birds flythrough iti want to hold the birds insidemy head and turn them intosex maniacs
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I try as much as I can to write but only in as much as you believe―am I successful.
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