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It began not so innocently
with voyeuristic tendencies.
the sound of concrete
and confetti in the night.
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Over the last years of her life, my mornings began when Mom decided to play. Sitting on her black, ball-and-claw stool, she'd raise the key cover, stretch her neck and shoulders, and take slow, deliberate breaths. A deep, meditative state descended over the room and…
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I don’t even want to think about Aethra shtupping Posiden and Aegeus
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Jannsun started working for Matrix back when he gave up on writing the next great American Novel, which was about five years ago, right after the war. He was old for a Web Zone designer but who knew? Who cared? His work was all done via satellite and as l
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I like violence /
because they refused to pay at attention to me /
as a child.
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“My name is Violet,” I add. I am trying to stop lying. Going without cigarettes has been easier.
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It starts on the Fallopian Speedway:
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Gibson Park, underneath the grove of trees beside the soccer field. She's buried. But don't say anything yet. Her disappearance will make the news shortly, but it hasn't yet.
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Like when she said the word 'but', it came out ‘bet’.
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Been running so long
You've been running so long
I bet you can't remember
What you're running from
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Most women simply don’t want damaged goods. That’s a fact I’ve been brought face to face with throughout my life. It's something you can continue crushing your brains against, like an impossibly high hurdle. At first you take the damage without unde
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—Mr. Martinelli, can you explain how you developed your painting technique?
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Let me say these words now
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We love our other animals
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a book of 5 poem-like things I made out of silly string and shot your way when you weren't exactly looking "..kisses are a far better fate/than wisdom."--E.E.CummingsContents:1.The Day's Thin Blue Swim-Suit2. The One Who Needed Let In Most3. I…
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NO ONE CAN BE A BASTARD FOREVER
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He was rummaging through his giant pile of clothing on the floor, looking for something to wear to sleep. When he couldn't quite tell what was dirty and what was clean, he knew it was time for laundry. Just as he was going to…
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last night a girl came
to me in the shape
of my suicide.
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I once saw a TV commercial that showed a group of Anglo retirees laughing around a card table. The slogan 60 is the new 20 floated beneath their fat, fun-loving heads. My parents are bona fide Baby Boomers. Their lives are build on credit and catchy…
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The world is a mighty funny place. It spins wildly and we are held down by its strong ghostly gravity. We're still able to communicate with one another over morning coffee and delicious cake donuts dipped in chocolate. Some of us used to keep…
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I ask if anyone has a poem or a story they would like to read. Everybody's hand shoots up.
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you escape by finding the bubbles
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Inspired by the photographic work of Susan Lipper. Grapevine series, 1988-92.
http://susanlipper.com/gv_23.html
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He began to chop the powdery substance and separate it into segments.
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We had imagined making babies with ease, as if they were simply fruit- ripening on the trees around us- and all we had to do is stretch out our limbs and pluck. We never imagined that skill is involved, that heartbreak is required, and that the one simpl
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I underline the passages Momma does in her Bible and circle the same words she does, of the oil Samuel uses to anoint David...
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In my dreams, I feel my dreams fade away.
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Without light it is black.
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He was triply satisfied: he’d come twice and he was a damn good-looking man.
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A fat kid running;
the sounds of an ice-cream truck
—counterproductive.
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