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I slept and it was pleasant. Then there was the kiss, and it was hot. Later you turned away, and all was November chill. Now there are touches, caresses and shouts, Marvelous nights flavored with favors bestowed, and blackened days,…
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this bleeding sun, clove studded & seedless
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Azure lowered her head, nearly burying it in the window, watching the helicopter land.
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" . . . the government works for the aliens now, taking over the world. That's why everything's so screwed up."
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She smiled at him. "You want to know the secret, that's why you want her to tell - not because you want her to be happy."
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I am young. This is years before I start to hide my accent.
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Contest rules are simple. Two teams of five hunters each are established by drawing from pools of interested volunteers and selected prison inmates confined for capital crimes and illegal immigration.
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I don't look like other poets. /
People hardly believe it when I say /
"I write poetry, sometimes. /
During lonely evenings."
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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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She is not centered, but she finds her way.
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As a boy, he had little hope of ever becoming anything.
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We wait for a server to bring our coconut cream pie. His favorite. I hate coconut.
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He was triply satisfied: he’d come twice and he was a damn good-looking man.
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Through the Walmart parking lot
they came...
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arrogant, sullen,/
supple and ambiguous,//
English seems the ideal tongue
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The Devil’s laugh was the screech of wind. Ignacio Carillo heard Him as he dug the grave that would hold the body of his beloved wife.
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He bounds like a lunar explorer into the Edinburgh Castle, the goofy porcelain busts glaring at him with contempt.
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Every day from my window I saw John Brigham's dog making its way across my field. The dog picked carefully through the shorn corn stubble taking the same route, I'm guessing, it took when the stalks made a shaded rustling forest. There is a narrow path…
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Lullaby for a dragon baby who breaks the bough with bottled fists escapes the armored cradle stealing swords from terra cotta men to slash the Ming canopy and loose the butterflies that will free
Ho Chi Minh from the fire.
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His legs were pedaling hard and his heart was beating fast, He's got his scars; He can't outrun his past, Down the hill he goes, wind whipped his hair, a new style with each draft. He broke his brakes long ago; He cut the cable and ripped off the pads. He cried…
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“It's a combination of ‘Survivor' and ‘College Bowl' says Sister Mary Agnesita, the show's host. “We take four very strict nuns and match them up with boys who were cut-ups in their grade school classes."
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You wouldn’t believe an organ the size of a heart could scream like a nine-year-old sissy girl but mine did.
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Skulk like a lovespun spider in a record store corner
on the orange formica subway car
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No, your clever costume won’t protect you.
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By the time the forked tongue of the flag extended flat like it was pressed between two of my thick volumes on weather forecasting, the man was still walking with his nose glued to the ground.
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Crouching like little children in a game of hide & seek, we entered the old house, slowly
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The BBC's “Sherlock” is among the most popular shows on TV, and there has been much speculation among die-hard fans like myself about what the upcoming fourth season will hold. Having consulted my own crystal ball, here's what I see happening: Irene…
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It was cold in the church. The Lutherans were freezing to death. The Catholics brought their winter coats.
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It seems that back in 1911, Kaiser Wilhelm came to this town
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