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never have i wanted/ to stay in one place long,/ flight inspired to escape/ existential ennui--
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124011
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You could hear her coming from a long way off
like she kept trying to catch her breath,
like she was getting the fun rattled out of her bones.
But it was laughter, always laughter that kept on
filling up her belly from the inside
and she was
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I have to look closely to be sure But they are there Bold stickers on three sides of the truck's cab Porcine cartoons Cutely admonishing No fat chicks! I am enraged Who does this guy think he is? This contractor's helper who makes …
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The machines of her perception/
tuned themselves to frequencies//
that peeled her skin and fatty tissue
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124044
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But in 1991 Carmen developed a heroin habit and was forced to sell her powder blue, convertible Mercedes 500SL...
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124000
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Ben panicked momentarily. Which passport?
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123920
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Angelo stood to the side and lit a cigarette.
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123910
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When I was a boy and just out of seminary school, I went to a Doors concert and heard Jim Morrison sing his song ‘Soft Parade’ – it changed my life.
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123931
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That's my memory, kept and clutched as with a sixth sense, that it was a prim Oriental afternoon, with the pink streaks in the sky going God-knows-where down across the park, but very far away. Ghostly, melancholy travellers. Birds met and crashed headlong somewhere up…
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123922
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Is this a tenure track position?
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123955
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The television was playing reruns of Mr. Ed, but it was hard to hear because of the flock of birds in the palm tree. I’d sometimes imagined the birds coming through the window, a swarming of pink cotton mouths, mawing everything in sight.
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123971
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The new poetry
comes in shining
metal boxes
covered in glass
so you can peer in.
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123975
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Lucy entered the open door next; she had been inside the cat litter house before: Brother Fran didn’t bother to cover turds he’d laid. He spoke of the outdoors: lizards he’d separated from their heads, world of work.
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123900
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With a deep breath she closed her eyes. Azure saw where she was at through night vision.
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123900
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Antique pens better allow an old soul to express what needs expressing.
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123900
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My writing career began with sitting around the tree eating Christmas presents.
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The Fat Man took a sip of whiskey, then replaced his glass on the table next to his fedora. …
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The world follows me everywhere. I can’t get rid of it. I’m being stalked by a planet.
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It must be some sort of Freudian twist, but as her cold fingertips draw rings on my navel, I think of my mother. Here, her body watches my tongue, asking my lips to curl into the letters of her name. I can't get erect. I remember my mother's face—her eyes almost…
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Concrete coffeecake
drumbeat gyrate
Andy Rooney ran a meter.
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123831
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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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123865
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"Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels."--William Carlos WilliamsThere is something beautiful I want to say to you that doesn't seem to make much more sense in a box of clever words like this one. It feels closer to…
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123899
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Here’s an obvious fact: I live in Germany, but don’t speak much German. Okay, I speak very little German. Truth be told, hardly any.
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123897
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the pressure from my lungs threatened to burst my eardrums.
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123811
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our cogs
winding
and whirring
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123821
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Over the last 30 days we have seen a radical decrease in our revenue stream. Our Q3 earnings fell dramatically short of what we had projected, and as a result the leadership team has had to look at some difficult cost-reducing measures.
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123821
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—Christ all mighty, said Ben to himself as he watched Isabella and Leona enter the bank. Those are some extraordinary examples of female flesh.
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123865
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We drank beer and played loose pool, attracted two fun girls, one Jamaican, the other dirty blonde, both of whom seemed interested in only one of the four of us.
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But the things I do know are the ways we've changed since we'd fallen into each other.
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