1228 5 5
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Every six weeks or so, he and I would argue. I would argue. He would listen. He raised me twenty-five cents each time. I suppose that is a bad habit for me to have gotten into—to get pissed about rates and to fight to get a raise.
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122850
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The banality of his own state of boredom, a luxury to be satiated with violence, to hack with an axe the exposed neck of his friend.
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122832
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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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122800
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“Eat up, little brother” Jack called out from his end of the table. “The food will make your blood dance. It will be eager to mix with Helen’s.”
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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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122832
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Lips touch briefly at first
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122810
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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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122842
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122832
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122800
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I am brave, I am sexy, I am strong
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122885
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Small stones/
skipped across/
still water ripple
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122700
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...I made the mistake, thinking the point of a maze was to go in one side and out the other.
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122733
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Here comes the bus. It’s going to Tuscany and is full of pronouns: he, she, me, you, it, them, us, we, and you again.
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1227102
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...cinched the handcuffs.
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122720
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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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1227126
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The brown grackle chirps/
as she chomps a plump cricket-/
melodious meal.
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122700
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Rains came again and wore away at their flesh, revealing bone as white and sharp as sharks’ teeth.
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122721
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Ben’s tactic for diverting Monique’s thoughts from the encounter with Zoë and the horrific episode in his dressing room was to dance, dance, dance.
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122797
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Antibiotic ointment didn't help. Maybe Granny medicine would.
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122723
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hot,
full
focused,
hypnotic
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122744
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in moving cars i am small;
in moving cars i am invisible.
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122700
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they'd turned into humans overnight
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122722
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In the black not dead of night, she gathers them; slowly,diligently placing the cansand bottles into two large plasticbags strung across a long piece of wood; this is her money work. She is small, but her bodyhas the choreography down:sift, search, lift,…
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122711
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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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1226114
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When were you flash frozen?
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1226158
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I haven't felt my soul leave my body
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122622
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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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122633
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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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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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122621
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We all heard the audible skill you had, speaking smoothly of our lives, saying audibly what has driven us, who are huge with night, rising with its origin inside, and clear water running past, beyond, behind, and after us.
To honor, to fear utteranc
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