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this elegant silver wrench/
which from the opposite side/
becomes a golden Phillips-head
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144300
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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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144310
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The morning news.
The birthday present you bought me.
This poem.
My hair when I wake up in the morning, at any given point in the day.
Pigeon pose.
My singing voice.
How much I love myself.
Coffee.
Sex.
Not having sex.
Having movie star sex.
Ha
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All the time I'm eating I can't help but think of the many different tuna melts I have ordered in diners and coffee shops and how each of them disappointed me...
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144311
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"...a head dizzy from my abuse."
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144343
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Skulk like a lovespun spider in a record store corner
on the orange formica subway car
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144311
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I survived as a brave thought,
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144343
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I got the news that you had died as I was
eating American chop suey, watching the Celtics.
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1443147
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A brief colorful season/
and then the fall as winds/
break the hold the leaves have
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144211
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“Forever you will be mine” she said to me, and of course I did not believe her. She was a romantic and so was I, and such words habitually dripped out of her lovely mouth like honey from the comb, in a never-ending flow of flattery which I am ashamed to s
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144211
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I laughed hysterically at Austin Powers.
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144230
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And I am reminded of river eyes:
The summer we slumbered,
Like mummies in the sand
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144241
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He gave her everything she hoped for, with the exception of two things.
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144222
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II. ByCoalport Your hair streams minarets across a bridge, The…
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144242
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Frank was about to take the first bite of a chicken salad sandwich.
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144221
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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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144211
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Salted sea of summer fingers- sand and salted skinmelt in me; vanilla ice cream lick- your lips; salty kiss saliva- sweet salt of semen run down my chin languid-salty sweat of you.
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1442159
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far beyond the far beyond
sparkles the stars like sparkles
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144253
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“I can't go to sleep,” Jonathan said, laying on the doctor's couch. He counted on his fingers to keep his mind active. “I'll certainly die if I do.”
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144240
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Jillian speeds across the stone wall, the hem of her dress flaps violently behind her. Sometimes she stands with her back fully erect letting perpetual motion guide her down a bend with her sun blonde locks brightening the dreary sky, or she lurches her
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144211
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Stanley had a crush on Sarah. They were in Ms. Goldman's freshman chemistry class together fifth period. That day they were working on homework at Sarah's house while her parents were gone. Stanley was in heaven.“Break time!” Sarah woke Stanley from daydreaming,…
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144221
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Between the commercials, the local news is rampant with fusillade of bullets going raving mad, driven by some Machiavellian brainfuck, or bombshells smiling down with angels in black; emoticons of solid metal and pride. But you would put your faith in…
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144232
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Tuesday morning while Frank was in Dr. Jawarski’s office, Michiko was sitting in the waiting room of a gynecologist’s office.
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144297
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Some of the elderly men and women are coming forward....
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144233
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"Let somebody else deal with for a while, man, I'm tired."
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144232
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...when they spotted each other through the glass, with he inside and she outside, she quickly began licking her fork obscenely, attempting to exhibit her sexual prowess with regard to the dexterity of her tongue and mouth...
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144200
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It was so dark below, there was only flashlights weaving about and headlights pointing in one direction.
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144232
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while you peed on that little old lady's begonias
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144241
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In the morning I listen through an ear-trumpet
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destinies bring me to a damned desert
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