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It is not rough like most grappa, but smooth like good whisky. It removes all edges, freezes the tongue and erases the memory.
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131911
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All I ask is that the guy has teeth and an income. More important are the teeth because he can always get a job, but he can’t un-rot the teeth he’s lost to meth.
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131931
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i ask you what i taste like and you say "not much."
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131952
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Someone desperately dials a number.
Iris, draped tight.
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131975
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From this fundamental simplicity,/
houses, cities, regions./
A nebula stretches across the grid.
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131923
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I even listen to the Ugly Kid Joe version. I fall asleep perplexed and disheartened.
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131900
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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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131932
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—Michiko, are you allergic to cats?
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131922
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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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131944
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Poems reflect their poets. /
Mine: ugly but loved. /
It is just as well.
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131931
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My first time alone with the women in Saudi Arabia...
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131994
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My dad / always had a fondness for Raleigh’s kind of loss
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131900
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131942
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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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131932
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The young monk rose early to jog,
his appetites trailing like
cats in heat.
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1319127
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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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131852
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[...] A crimson post-it note/ illustrates the squiggle of a resting pulse wavering/
near the broken pencil leads and whorls of/soft wood which may be classed as evidence.
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131822
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All the baby monsters are being born on stage.
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131820
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By the time she reached home, dinner would be there in thirty minutes, on the table. Not a lively table, just politeness, and calm. There were no issues of the day that needed discussing, no problems to be solved.
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131800
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Creatures of the dark don’t follow daylight savings
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131810
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I do not jerk up to sirens birds doorbell shouts hello hello through the letterbox hello
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131810
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Then there she is, and she makes me love-sad; it's a vehement, absolute, hard love-sad no one else needs to understand, though they can see; it's an emotion so concrete it's felt from the chest, not from a tenuous concept called heart.
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131842
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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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131855
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The boy stared out his window, noting the suns slow and eventual passing behind the distant mountains. He saw his face reflected in the window pane and turned away. His shadow loomed…
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131833
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my pilgrim tongue
on the map of
your body
seeks sanctuary
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131854
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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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131877
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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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131800
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No one would have picked me out of a crowd as the morbid one, but it was true that thoughts of easy exits floated through my consciousness regularly.
I did my research—the easy methods, painless, guaranteed methods—and felt prepared to do, well, w
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131855
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I heard that Hollywood is remaking “Thelma and Louise” with Christina Ricci and that dark haired girl who worked on a show that plays on the television. I heard it either from the internet or from a dream. I thought about looking it up, but I don't…
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131760
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The arid paramour,
your breath is hot, dry, cedar.
I sweat you corpus fluids and salt
and the unnamably impure.
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