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she lays there
wrapped in his baseball sheets
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131943
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I come up and out of the hole onto a village street in the middle of a parade celebrating the arachnid god.
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131832
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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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131821
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He kept one scarf. It was the scarf that she would tie around his eyes to play with him, long, until he was in his teens. A silly game that made her happy and he squirmed with delight until he got too old. She did not want him to see her, only to know if
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131844
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when I take the time/now to remember/
you have become/a thousand page/memory book
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131800
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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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131887
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131830
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Most people don't understand what it's like being a pop idol. I am not most people. I am Tincture Shunt, and here I present you with my trajectory to stardom, in case you want to copy it for your own personal use. Unfortunately (for…
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131810
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Something is clearly wrong with them and we're supposed to socialize them.
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131841
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131811
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Next morning the thought crosses my mind of snapping Mom’s neck, making sure she’s dead, and then running down to the sea to drown myself.
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131800
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Watching the surroundings, the school proceeded on with no threat in sight. The Circle of Four entered inside Azure’s classroom where she sat next to a window.
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131863
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Sorrow fences with fear and questions
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131897
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I COULD always sleep. Go "home" now and sleep. My body and my fetus—who complain of this torture—would appreciate sleep. I have something to do that is not sleep. I have something to do that is not sleep. I have to try to wake.
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131821
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The woman was dancing, holding her bottle in the air as she slowly turned around, blocking the way to the exit. “I asked Miss Pansy Blossom if she would wing a reel,” she sang.
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13171310
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I'll see her this fall, a redhead in camo
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131774
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—A little blood puts some life into the work, said the old artisan smiling.
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131723
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The weather, mid-sixties now,
will take its toll on
this singular voice.
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131700
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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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131732
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His thoughts drifted to when he was a kid, to the monthly trip to the barber.
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131711
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I am tripping on poetry.
Purple ink drips from my eyes like ergot of rye.
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131700
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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.
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131722
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The son stood on the porch with his grip packed. "I'm off to mine me a fortune a gold, Daddy." "Boy, there's a fortune in gold right here," said the father, indicating the ripe wheat, glowing in early morning sun. The kid slumped. "Pop, you turn over a rock there,…
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131722
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Is this a tenure track position?
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1317157
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...he had that same grin, better than a racy French picture.
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131700
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The music is too loud in here and it's hurting my ears. I know some of the words to the songs because my older sister listens to the same stuff when she's in her bedroom and is playing her iPod and my dad yells at her to turn that crap down. I like my dad. He calls me…
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131700
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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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131732
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a thinking man's bird
high above
coated with scent
of life
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131754
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I suspect I’ll make the right decision.
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131710
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Her questions apparently had their desired effect.
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