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We're alone and besieged / by badness.
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134222
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Why do you lie? the old woman repeats when her mouth is not busy filling the waste bin. We sit as far away from her wheedle and wretch as the small waiting room allows. A young woman glares at us through the mental health clinic's safety glass…
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134275
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134231
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i ask you what i taste like and you say "not much."
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134211
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Our revolutionaries
Have evolved into gamekeepers
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134233
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in case something went wrong
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134232
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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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134243
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The one-legged crow was back in the yard again. It was there yesterday and maybe before, but yesterday was the first time I noticed it. I've been using my binoculars lately. It is interesting to me...to bring things closer. And it's not just birds, but other things like the…
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134253
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you knew the lightbent it in your favorleapt confidentlyacross heartscheeks and shouldersrouged chromaticincandescent pretendingperhaps the dark had no claimover your lonely clumsy soul© 2013 - Rene
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134275
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it acquires a fine translucence
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134210
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Seems hot for a Thursday, doesn’t it?
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134221
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Dawn is a grey mass, what is left of the night's chill slips between my t-shirt and belly skin. Somewhere else you once wrote that being loved when you don't love in return equals rape.
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134200
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134242
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Standing there as you walked away from me that late March afternoon, in the park off Meridian Street, the spring tableau seemed
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134254
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What the hell is going on out here!? Yelled the man with the shotgun
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134240
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Green hands
wave
in freezing water.
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134100
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“A lot of kids–granted, kids who aren’t too bright–will choose a school because of its mascot, and that’s what Chipper is all about,” he says.
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134153
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you look like
the insides of my cheeks
chewed.
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134100
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“You've got to be kidding me. A robot?”, said Marge as she rotated in the chair at her desk. She removed the leaf of paper from the typewriter and set in down on the desk. She looked up at Parkins who was leaning against the wall nursing a cold cup of…
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134100
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At the annual Earth Day celebration, Frieda looked up in the sky and saw a lone goose. It had caught her attention with its call, echoing off the buildings and trees.
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134132
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The retina was burning, the liquid had dried up, and the veins bursting. My eyes bled. But I kept them open. The sound was like nails on glass, screeching endlessly. Coming close to me louder, harder, faster.
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134121
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“The minute I stopped wondering about
the meaning of life is when I
finally started enjoying life.”
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134143
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destroy the day
rip up the track
jump in the water
eat nothing but bugs
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134111
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Joseph and his little brother, Kevin, were there again. Kevin was too small to understand what had happened yet. He would usually just go off, running around the statues and playing with the wreaths; the last time they'd visited he climbed a tree and broke one of the…
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134100
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" ... that’s a seriously good result for an opening night."
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134123
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I even listen to the Ugly Kid Joe version. I fall asleep perplexed and disheartened.
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134166
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Two girls, twelve years old, run down San Pedro Avenue past the market, the middle school, seven driveways, their small chests heaving. The smooth soles of their Mary Janes keep slipping on the gravel driveways. Two men in a rust-orange van bear…
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134100
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“Now, “Pour Some Sugar on Me” is a hit of the eighties.”
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134131
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With spring rain
And greening buds
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134164
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You have at least
an intermittent belief.
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