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They shoot up through the soles of their feet
once the veins in their arms are all used up.
They shoot up in their necks
like the cows on the African Savannah
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118100
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"‘Man-hater’ is such a harsh term,” she says. “I really like it.”
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118130
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I guess you felt more comfortable holding your Moby Dick
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118164
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When I look at the picture on my refrigerator, I always think the same thing: "Hitler was a baby once too, look how well he turned out."
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118131
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I see you’re wearing your tablecloth top again
your tablecloth dress to impress me
and distress me with all your tablecloth positions
for your luncheons on the grass
with all your famous friends
who found you on your ass
Yes we can
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118100
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-That’s more like it. He released Ben and holstered his gun under his leather jacket.
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118132
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118100
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Ben woke in a black mood. His head was ready to explode and his throat was raw
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118132
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In this way a section of a marsh or weapons testing range, a forest or corporate landscape is transported into his living room.
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118163
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in that time people had gone away and i waited in the inside and looked out on balconies. the ending of the dusk was coming and the details of the railings and brick, the tree branches holding purple plums, the stacked railway ties and a thousand other details became…
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118151
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We went driving on Sundays.
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118032
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driving and standing in front of the same car
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118000
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destinies bring me to a damned desert
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118000
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I sold my ego to pay a parking ticket. And then I wrote 77 words about mental health.
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118011
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I am tripping on poetry.
Purple ink drips from my eyes like ergot of rye.
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118033
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I ate 3 pieces of a broken heart
I wonder who ate the rest?
They may have eaten the best
I don’t know and can’t even start
To wonder how it got in such a mess
3 pieces of a broken heart
You could tell it just fell apart
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118011
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In this 7-Eleven at 2AM I can write the saddest lines. /
Among these malcontents and degenerates I am Ovid
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118011
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There is a false dawn,
when night still holds sway, but tempered with promise; anticipation.
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118054
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I loved her when she first came calling in the sodden dawn of spring. She was a strange and dangerous flower. Together we drank up all the money. The days staggered away like drunks lurching down a flophouse hall.
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118041
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This time is different. The dream doesn’t continue with endless walking.
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118065
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I texted a wickety-split, tax-declaring New York-based international escort, a moonlighting, all-pro Kit, whose day job on Wall Street yields no bonus.
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118000
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Mustard stings the corner of his lips. He swipes it away with a finger, and looks closer at the hot dog. The piece of meat is ripped open like a sliced finger stuck in a doughy bandage
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1180102
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she lays there
wrapped in his baseball sheets
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1180103
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I am beginning to worry. There is something that they are not telling me. I am afraid that something bad is going to happen.
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118077
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Over dinner last evening she said things have to change because she can never be happy with our lives being so concentric and I knew she meant that while we share the common core of marriage, she felt she was a small circle and I was a larger one, enveloping her,…
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117941
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Whisper salutations to your irises
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117922
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Can you remember now? How we could each disappear completely, connected despite fault lines. . . .
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117900
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Henry recognized the shoes. “There’s a little vampire came in with those on, but I last saw her over by the juice bar.” He couldn’t be bothered with Arthur’s “sections.” The club wasn’t that big that it had to be defined by sections.
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117912
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Every soul has a shadow.Last night, I saw mine. I saw greed,with his sticky, gnarled fingers,seizing the tablecloth of a grand feast,indifferent(or conveniently oblivious)to his starving loved ones. I saw ingratitude,with her proud, scornful …
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117922
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But I surely did recognize Rayburn Moon; Rayburn and I dated for about five minutes back then
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