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Pity would have been appropriate. Yet, townsfolk whispered behind his back. Shouldn't he do something about it. So lazy. A gluttonous swine. Hadn't his mother kept him too long at tit, breastfeeding ‘til four? Look. Look at him now. A fat man. Our enormou
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One day, he decided instead to be-pet them,
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then all crawl out from the wreckage
to begin a dance lasts all night
so by morning we'll be tired
surprised we're still upright
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irretrievably we tell ourselves stories
irretrievably as beaded water slides off our skin
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and any stain or streak/
is as you will or wish it
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Too young to stay interested for long in the words I was reading. My father said the man was very intelligent and most of his writing was hard to understand.
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It is wonderful to talk to Mick Jagger in his hotel room. He is absolutely charming, and the women filling the room seem as natural as the sound of rain or the play of sunlight.
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decline the proffered hand
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I saw magic for the first time when I was eight, on the day Jeremy Chendo showed me that paper cranes can fly.
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they'd turned into humans overnight
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In its own defense
against what is too concrete
the mind allows a magical thought--
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it is said to make your manliness last forever
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B developed a thick emulsion that he paints onto the pieces of meat on which he prints photographs.
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[...] in the living room above the fire, someone had gouged a letter A on the wall.
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In certain sense most fractured in each part, the whole Resolves itself more central, but I sense no calm In the cyclone's eye, the forest of the soul, Where plants this eidolon of poisoned charm. This is the secret of the hurricanes, reaping Out from…
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I should've traced my steps.
I'm lost in a sea of hyperlinks.
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Held tight during the week, clouds now cast off their burden, flinging down a drag-net of sleet.
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There was nothing on the lake but a / faint sailboat and a shadowy gull.
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Son, could you please step out of the car?
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Rumiko stood quiet, staring out at Mayumi slowly approaching the shrine. Keiko cast a spell at the structure before them while Emi stood before her sister calling out to her and Mrs. Saito struggled to pull Mayumi away.
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125400
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...black birds fall from trees...
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It had been a long night, a hard night. The sky had been filled with blackened clouds, patters of wind snapping and whipping like a pirate's flag hung at full mast. Rain beat…
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In the sides of mountains the rivers rush through and who would stop them as they gain a hold on the world? For silences they keep just then, as if from a larger wisdom and different clock. Pink moons and funny coins with the heads of lions and lambs, and the quarter…
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accidental ground/
for index-fingered figures
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Dancing at the pavilion leads to sex. A nectar builds up around the heart (damp curl of hair at the neck.) The heart does not know what it cannot have. It is dumb and does not know. But I, for one, hope that it never learns and becomes numb.
There i
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125363
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I returned to Minnesota from Montreal a week ago to realize that my sweetheart in Manhattan had hired a Ukrainian escort.
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I remember some of the tight-fitting garments you wore, your looks seeping through them. The light blonde hairs at your neck and at your middle. Were we really expected to keep our hands off each other? It is foolish to think so. I know what I was think
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soap smells tangy, but/I wouldn’t eat it: scent and/nutrition diverge.
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Emma held her arm up to John’s eyes. He looked, nodded. “My burns are on the inside,” he told her. “I’ll never show you.”
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