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got the space heater going in the desert
got a lot of space out there somewhere
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113011
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I'm wonderin how'd your momma and pop get you to give up a whole summer to spend in this dusty old polio museum we call a house?
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My mother’s serene and patient voice flew up the staircase once again “Megan, are you done feeling sorry for yourself?”
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113000
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He ordered a palace built, and the builders came to blows, which is why the father’s eyes have swollen shut, and the oldest son’s knuckles are bright plums.
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The bad optical, crossed or dead or lazy or stray
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Bipolar. Schizophrenic. Alcoholic.
Addicted. Abused. A reader?
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113011
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Carla woke up from her hospital bed screaming.
"Somebody please help me. Please save me. I am begging you."
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113010
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kindergarteners
sent to class with
Uzis
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112922
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The mannequin’s blind eyes, open, green, serene,
Look away from the cross, her hand
Against our crotch, against
Our suffering, our agony of being
Alive and beating warm.
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"‘Man-hater’ is such a harsh term,” she says. “I really like it.”
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112900
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a white rabbit with a dirty monocle and a straw hat regarded marsha from the grass at the edge of the mud.
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112911
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A Halloween drabble. Happy Halloween to all!
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11291911
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served as it is/
among these friends.
The frayed filaments/
tickle my chin and irritate my nostrils,
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112910
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The English phrase "Nice to see you" translates into "My gall bladder is really warm today" in Berik, a language of New Guinea.
What Language Is, John McWhorter
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112933
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Fragment’s of ignorance strewn by a haphazard hand
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112921
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Wild bore the wind down on me, coming out of the heavens that turned around the stars of the evening. The longing and the appetite at work in the body, all tickling to open a girl’s mane, gaping, health-giving crossroads to the body. Hail and farewell t
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She pulled the book off its shelf. It meant something else now. He'd quote her in the mirror, at the backs of buses that kept her moving, something she'd said without saying. He would remember for them. She'd forget, without him, the way she wanted. Garland and lights were…
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the
unutterable
things of
this
world
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112911
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The waves assisted in pushing him forward, until he reached the dry sand. He saw a small resort town ahead. The lights were out in the businesses and homes.
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112997
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I’m on Discord but I don’t know how to do anything.
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I love the notion of uncertainty-/
which seems inherent/
at the level of particles-
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112821
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Sit down at night and stare into the fire. Consider if Cupid is just another liar.
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1128108
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When you need a vacation...from everything.
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112853
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It was on the Fake News today, Oh boy
They built a bridge from Alaska to Siberia
Called the Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Instead of a wall
And Putin came riding bareback on a pink unicorn
Into the White House and renamed it
The White Horse,
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112800
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To politicians who think things will stop,
When they finally let slip and drop -
this government of ours we call
The ultimate power of them all.
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112811
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In my dreams, I feel my dreams fade away.
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112844
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The man next door came over with a pitchfork.
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112821
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I go with the wind, like the smoke of this Marlboro red as it dances among the palm trees.
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112800
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Swat at those screeching children with tufts of harp-grass. Flail, mad eyed and sad sighed with all gleaming hope gone out of the daylight. Swat and screech swat and screech. We continue until their thick bark-like hides are smooth and polished. We sand them with…
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