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A vanishing of something we never got to see. All we've been left with are impressions, imaginings
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His house incubates memories. As he sleeps, they hatch.His house is neither here nor there. It occupies a space between watchfulness and insomnia. Grey birds nest on its roof.His house is a refuge from everything except himself. The floor, walls, roof are fat with him.…
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An eternity in a crashing moment.
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we’ll never win/
the ongoing battle with dirt.
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Our revolutionaries
Have evolved into gamekeepers
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destroy the day
rip up the track
jump in the water
eat nothing but bugs
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bullets in flight make sharp, snapping noises.
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"Do you kiss all of your models?"
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You have more names
Than a Spanish grandee. Your lives
I’m too envious to count.
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Night LifeThen things started getting weird. I could give you a time frame but it was back when times didn't matter really, one hour as good as the next and the minutes used to be minutes not the digital counting that makes this crazy world now spin. Here was…
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i waited for the moon last night for hoursfell asleep with the record player on and dreamedof rain running downgutters of sea glass housesthe sun nudged me awakeand she served me toasthe's not serious,she saidhe's half baked,full of…
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Ben was stuck between sweet essences and rancid Talmudic funk. It was going to be a long trip.
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My first time alone with the women in Saudi Arabia...
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From words to meaning― how complicated it is.
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The second time I watched him, I helped him carry her to the woods. [100 words].
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I love the notion of uncertainty-/
which seems inherent/
at the level of particles-
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That is a six-word story. Notice that the meaning does not change with the word count. Syllabic count: pentameter (ten). Keep these commas.
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Now that you can go to a body shop and get nearly any mod you can imagine printed and attached in about an hour, every cracker-ass redneck is sporting a twelve-point rack...
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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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at the front of the bus/ sways a white-veiled woman:/ gnarled hands upon/ a bag of palms,
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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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far beyond the far beyond
sparkles the stars like sparkles
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“Help me,” the man said in his mind. He lay beside the folding camp stool alone in the middle of the woods, in the clearing where he and the dog always rested.
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He stood with the bride of quietness / on the precipice of questions
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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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Frank met Angelique Brody on the street in front of his building.
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Oryn led Ragnorak to a window. It was darkened in the corners with only a red light over the Nocturne.
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What does God find abhorrent?
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