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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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whatever weaknesses you displayed//
as empathetic human fellow traveler,/
your command of English survives you,//
on into the last echoes of the human/
once we’re gone.
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you look like
the insides of my cheeks
chewed.
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She said it feels wrong. Too wet, she said. I snickered, she smacked.
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"‘Man-hater’ is such a harsh term,” she says. “I really like it.”
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i ask you what i taste like and you say "not much."
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Our revolutionaries
Have evolved into gamekeepers
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We laughed like lords and lunatics
Our schematics stretched before us
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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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I was sitting there drinking with Paul at the bar, and it was a Friday night and I was I was feelin good. I didn't have to go to work in the morning, and I had a few drinks and food in me, and I able to that on da cheap, which felt good. And Paul…
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"Do you kiss all of your models?"
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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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Between the commercials, the local news is rampant with fusillade of bullets going raving mad, driven by some Machiavellian brainfuck, or bombshells smiling down with angels in black; emoticons of solid metal and pride. But you would put your faith in…
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. . . the roar of fire speaks lasting heat . . . .
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If you find a lone, sad honeybee, buy a Habitrail cage and make it your new pet.
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From words to meaning― how complicated it is.
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lucy had simply taken a kitchen knife and removed the outer layer, the layer of things people notice
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-Someone could have boosted this easy as pie, Ben said to himself.
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The redwood trees were taller than dreams
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He cleaned off the pump with a steel brush. Then he took it out to the pressure washer. Out there was where a lady that looked like a witch used to move around and sit on the fences like a crow. The air was humid, and the men were dressed in heavy blue coveralls.…
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There’s a room
Full of white
And it smells
Like bleach and
Iron
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we’ll never win/
the ongoing battle with dirt.
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destroy the day
rip up the track
jump in the water
eat nothing but bugs
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The man was sitting at his makeshift kitchen table. He was forty-five years old. He wore his mortarboard with tassel whenever he left his home. Once inside either a reputable establishment or one generally considered less so, he was sure to take off his m
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. . . I wanted to put Tiffany out of her misery and mine and shove her in front of the next large vehicle hurtling down the drive-through lane . . . .
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Forgive the doctor/
his hypocrisy -
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and so I'm staying here where I am a little while (longer). Who knows where the time sleeps? I don't think I'll ever catch up with your heart again. That's the same lame novel approach I'm always stepping into to…
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From this fundamental simplicity,/
houses, cities, regions./
A nebula stretches across the grid.
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I even listen to the Ugly Kid Joe version. I fall asleep perplexed and disheartened.
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