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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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135410
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I do not jerk up to sirens birds doorbell shouts hello hello through the letterbox hello
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135401
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135411
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Our revolutionaries
Have evolved into gamekeepers
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135432
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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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135421
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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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135443
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destroy the day
rip up the track
jump in the water
eat nothing but bugs
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135443
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My accordion's name is Sophia and she is from Italy. She was born in fairytale fashion, the way my life in Madrid can sometimes be. A great and nurturing friend gathered money from many friends in our village, to buy me an accordion for my birthday. It was…
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135411
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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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135400
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" ... that’s a seriously good result for an opening night."
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135410
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Seems hot for a Thursday, doesn’t it?
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135444
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Poems reflect their poets. /
Mine: ugly but loved. /
It is just as well.
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135300
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You sleep in equative lip biting slumber
hugging a pillow you think is someone else.
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135341
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His only sibling had passed a few years back and his mother was the only one left of a gaggle of 7 brothers and sisters and their spouses. The turning of the generations, from birth to grave, was always a bit like the tilling of the ancestral soil. A new
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Can we meet in the desert,
I will stand with a cactus flower clenched
between my teeth and balance en pointe.
I will tame snakes and find your serpent
tongue with my eyes closed.
I will usher in the clouds, when it grows hot,
and, should you becom
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135322
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"Which way ought we to go from here," he asked.
She smiled again, "that all depends on where we want to get to." He nodded but didn't laugh so she sighed and strolled around the room, tuning and looking and considering her options.
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135364
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You have at least
an intermittent belief.
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135322
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This really bothered me, and I questioned my penis about it.
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135243
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Nature is perfect... We can never learn that much
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135253
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you look like
the insides of my cheeks
chewed.
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135211
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I have a fascination with Dickens and London and this was inspired by my next novel.
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135241
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In praise of the colorful flock with crowns
of teased cotton candy rising high above
Modular walls, stalled operating systems
staling coffee and pale corner offices
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135264
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My supper consisted of no cheese
My marriage consisted of no violin
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135200
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His cheeks were extremely pink but the pink was not the shade usually associated with good health, it was the pink of Death.
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135223
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A little boy sits at the table. He hears a knock at the door.“Mo-om!” the boy calls out. “Door!”His mother comes from the kitchen, wiping her hands on her clothing.“Jesus!” she says. “Would it kill you to answer the…
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135261
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Later, you've hit that four shot espresso limit; you've snarfed down that too rich mushroom korma… gone before you tasted it.
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135211
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As clever as clean bed sheets
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135200
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Who remains after the aching night has departed into dawn
and left us to week-old sleep
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