1322 5 1
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Samson was also somewhat in hopes that his son Jason would become engaged in this minor capitalist enterprise and 'turned around' in his life.
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132232
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When we were leaving to go to the ice rink, Lynda surprised all of us by saying she wanted to come along. She slid all the way over in the front seat to be next to me, while one of my buddies, Miller, who had his eye on her himself, slid into the passen
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132211
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132200
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Do you know what it is to crave something? Of course you do. But this was different. This was beyond craving.
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132287
|
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132201
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Ben gagged after shot-gunning the scotch. He hiccupped and it came back up through his nose. He grabbed a napkin and caught most of a shot and a half of Whyte & MacKay as it poured out his nose.
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132222
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Is this a tenure track position?
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132240
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We light cigarettes, take turns putting them out on each other's arms, legs, anywhere hard without a mark. It's living, he says, it's better to know you're alive than feel nothing at all. My brother is two years older than you, I was thinking on Tuesday,…
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132231
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The damaged sky is not more black than your hair,
Ashen tonight and floating over the land in blackened
Smoke, where the furrows run with milk light
Or snow, blue and white, and the world-ash floats.
Your patient body sleeps and the white pain
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132200
|
After all, if she could get through World War II with no more than a couple of letters and numbers on her arm, she could, sure as hell, get through this.
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132232
|
a thinking man's bird
high above
coated with scent
of life
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132240
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We all wish to partake in great events.
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132222
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1322129
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The gulls/
have somehow mastered the art//
of avoiding the nooses of six-pack/
plastic rings
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132122
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There it was
One abandoned high heel shoe on the sidewalk
Could have been
Some kind of robbery
Though
Maybe it was just
The beginning of the
Walk of shame
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132100
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"Did you see any action?" I ask, hoping for a story. He points to a scar ripping through the chevron on his left arm but says nothing.
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132130
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It began with the waffles, well first there were the potholders, but really the problem was the waffles. I don't even think she knew she was making waffles; much less that she had lost her potholders in the trash can the day before. But nonetheless the real issue here was…
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132100
|
The glamour of living in the Rebuilt Engine Capital of the World is meaningless to the young boys who roam its crowded streets after school, desperately looking for something to take their minds off their homework.
|
132111
|
There is a false dawn,
when night still holds sway, but tempered with promise; anticipation.
|
132163
|
Sorrow fences with fear and questions
|
132110
|
Her questions apparently had their desired effect.
|
132175
|
One day, Dasha confessed to Igor that she had an incurable illness: Purple emptiness.
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132053
|
POETRY IS DEGENERACY / IS A DISGUSTING HABIT
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132020
|
A minute later, a shadow appeared across the left-hand page of the book.
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132074
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—A little blood puts some life into the work, said the old artisan smiling.
|
132020
|
That’s not just a
trinket on her finger,
that’s a rock, a fortress,
a castle. No one
can scale those walls
except Joe Sixpack,
slumped beside her
at the airport.
They’re not a match.
I give it
5 years, max.
Not even.
Joe
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132032
|
If someone were to place a rabbit in her lap right now, there would be nothing she could do to hold onto it. It would leap. Drop. Hie its powerful body elsewhere. At the end of her life she would have nothing to show but a collection of rabbit-shaped empt
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132052
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Fingers scrabble idly at pocket seams, forage between teeth, grasp for tepid cups, patter a drumbeat on knees.
|
132011
|
I am tripping on poetry.
Purple ink drips from my eyes like ergot of rye.
|
132023
|
Now, as we sat on lawn chairs /
on the balcony to watch the meteor shower
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