1226 11 4
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When were you flash frozen?
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1226102
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...cinched the handcuffs.
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122632
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They call me Curiosity and I am curious. I am also a robot. Please. Don't judge me. Robots are not all stupidly obedient, bubble headed twits with whirring gears, lithium batteries, and nanocrystalline electrodes. I have a temperature. I have self-monitoring…
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122620
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It's going to be expensive, but it's booked and I am going to enjoy every single minute of it.
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1226149
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... and August's drought/
will yellow lawns, singe the shrubs,/
and amplify cicada song.
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122642
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blue plexiglass skateboard is holding the light of a turmeric sun. jacob turns it this way and that and lets it sit on its side atop parking curbs. denim legs canvas feet. looking down sign ridden streets and squinting. sometimes sun showers leak out. cotton…
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122611
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In his head the moment would have been different.
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122623
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hot,
full
focused,
hypnotic
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122600
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Marie Poupon-Kennedy wasn’t strangled by one set of hands; there were thirty sets around that long, pale neck.
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122652
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Like the Lady Miss Kier, I believe in the power of love. I believe.
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122600
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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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122654
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Devour my horror, embrace it as yours
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122600
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they'd turned into humans overnight
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122600
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“Gaudy talking, ordination, high finance and politicking won’t save you. Moshaka zumbrala!” screamed Pastor Cleon Wrunk.
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122600
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I am brave, I am sexy, I am strong
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122611
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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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1225158
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I haven't felt my soul leave my body
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122522
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Jack and Jane went up the hill.Give us a drink, said Jack. Here go, said Jane. They watched a bit of the city below, the city that was lit up by soft electrical lights. What say tonight Jane? Why so quiet? Many spirits are out Jack. They are all around. …
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122533
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He’s so stoned he’s in the zen zone,
Which is just beyond the end zone.
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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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122500
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A gurgle of sugar on bark-splotch or blips. A mess: blueprints, radar, or wrench. Lips swell neon blood. So much spit, the lunar tremors. Manipulated, blur flutter flicks. To lungs: choke on scraps of metal, lumber, nuclear. Stir the embers. She's a bone bath for…
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122520
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When I was nine years old, I fell through the rotting
boards that covered my grandmother's cesspool and nearly
drowned.
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122574
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One day, he decided instead to be-pet them,
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122532
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Lips touch briefly at first
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122510
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The harsh lights of the 7th Ave. Local revealed dark circles that had remained hidden during Vivian’s performance.
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122551
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It was the truth, you'd say. Then someone else would step in, someone who knew the situation. It wasn't long before the entire population of our sleepy little town became accustomed to your routine. It was even welcome in some circles. Those circles were made up…
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122597
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Antibiotic ointment didn't help. Maybe Granny medicine would.
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122533
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I thought
we ended things a long time ago
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in moving cars i am small;
in moving cars i am invisible.
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