1360 5 4
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hangs inverted and
begins a swirling motion,
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136000
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We both looked toward the house. We could just make out a light that was barely visible coming from the side where their bedroom window was. Slowly an evil grin appeared on Darrell's face. He looked at the knife in his hand. "This will do it!" he sa
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136043
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Reams of saggy bunting intersect the streets.
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136043
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It starts on the Fallopian Speedway:
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136021
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The girl lifts my head, and I sit up straight once again. She hands me a pair of old work gloves, helps put them on my swollen hands. She wipes my face with a wet, warm towel. Her thin arms tremble. She cries. I cry.
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136000
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My heart was a puzzle completely incomplete,
until I learned of love in your embrace.
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136087
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In the quiet dark, fathers reappear.
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136011
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I survived as a brave thought,
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135900
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Breasts were developed after World War II, the result of improved nutrition and the additional muscle mass that “Rosie the Riveter”-types acquired through manual labor in jobs that males abandoned to join the war effort.
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135942
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Does he pack you a lunch when you're running late for work? Even when you're not running late? Does he insist on regular medical check-ups, for which he'll pay because you don't have insurance? Will he disapprove of your objectionable behavior, and not turn the…
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135952
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He remembers, he touches,
he lifts and kisses the mouth.
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135922
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The boy buckled in and told his mom, “No mommy, I can do it myself”
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135933
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Tokarsky and I got chased off an El train by a couple of mean-looking black dudes who looked like they were going to crush us. I let go a spritz of tear gas that I had on me in the train and we ran as it came to a stop at the Morris Street stop. They chas
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135900
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Tombstone is a tongue of stone in the mouth of the desert. The desert is a living entity. It speaks. It speaks with a tongue of stone. It says: Tombstone.
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135977
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this elegant silver wrench/
which from the opposite side/
becomes a golden Phillips-head
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135900
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By the time I was born, my parents were already sickened, blackened, blighted people.
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135921
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“What the fuck!” Duke muttered, amazed at what he was seeing in the darkened store. A thin curtain of smoke was rising from under the baseboard like an inverted waterfall. It stretched the entire length of the left wall. Holy shit, the joint's on fire! I…
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135900
|
Whenever Lady Gaga took the stage,
We peons on the benches cheered for her:
She dripped of jewels and paint, and blessed sage,
Wore meat as the antithesis to fur.
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135987
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The rat had been informed, assured, cajoled in order to gain his assent—duly lied to, in other words, by the researchers with not one tear of remorse, with no smudge or smear of conscience . . .
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135922
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In frustration, he picked up a hammer and slammed it straight into the center of the mask.
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135930
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We were careful not to wake the kids & goodbye with a handshake & my skeleton is trapped with your universe inside.
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135932
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she sees that no one has considered her needsshe feels left out, and so she strikes outon the offensive, nostrils flaringpoints her finger and makes her caseshe has been wronged, justified in her angershe will not back downthe accused one is hurtstrikes back with her own…
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135886
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Once a friend asked me to write about rape in an email, so I wrote that it is a weapon of war that would not work here because partners do not give in to it; in fact, they would say it is infidelity in relationships.
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135800
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—They turned him into a time bomb. Listen close, and you can hear the tick-tick-tick.
—All I hear is snoring. How do you know he was brainwashed?
—Because he can’t remember a thing about the experiment.
—I can say this: If he can’t remember anyth
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135810
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I heard them calling my name. “Will passenger Karen Anderson please come to flight desk Six Fourteen? Flight 912 is ready for takeoff. This is your last call.”
“Mario, did you hear that?” I asked. “We’re on the wrong plane!”
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135887
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arrogant, sullen,/
supple and ambiguous,//
English seems the ideal tongue
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135830
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He's got a rager for Casablanca, the old Bogart and Bergman classic. I can't snap him out of it.
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135898
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After you lost sight in your left eye, mom made me go on the road with you that last summer to help you see.
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135853
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It's not a funeral. Nobody to mourn over.
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135821
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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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