1225 12 8
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My name's Barbara and don't call me Barbie if you want to be my friend.
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1225149
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... and August's drought/
will yellow lawns, singe the shrubs,/
and amplify cicada song.
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122542
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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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122511
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In his head the moment would have been different.
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122597
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Antibiotic ointment didn't help. Maybe Granny medicine would.
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122523
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hot,
full
focused,
hypnotic
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122500
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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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122500
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It was an unseasonably warm day in early spring when I first saw the man in the treehouse. The boys had just climbed onto the school bus, the older with shoulders hunched, weighted down with the gross unfairness of his early adolescent life, the younger still scribbling…
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122563
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It was as if every wrong foisted upon his ancestors stirred up a war in him and he was charged with intending the canon at the living.
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122500
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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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122522
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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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122500
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I am brave, I am sexy, I am strong
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1224158
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I haven't felt my soul leave my body
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122422
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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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122440
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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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122400
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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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122433
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Cliffhanger Notes
Sexpot
Bunched Panties
Cereal Killer
Hello Kitty Litter
Canoodle
Named
Anonymous Clock
The Lizard of Oz
Luke Warm and the Cold Zippers
Megaschnauzer
Truffle-Snuffers
Pork-Pie Hats
Helium Chipmunks
Tender Is
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122410
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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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122452
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Like the Lady Miss Kier, I believe in the power of love. I believe.
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122433
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I thought
we ended things a long time ago
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122454
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Devour my horror, embrace it as yours
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122400
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they'd turned into humans overnight
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122400
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When New Guinea's president was a student at UCLA he received an A- in organic chemistry after watching a Joan Rivers Informercial. Each year he tries to re-create the magic of that moment.
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122485
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Small stones/
skipped across/
still water ripple
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122411
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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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122300
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Popular wisdom would have it that heroin addicts are some kind of cross between vampire menace and low-rent cartoon.
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122333
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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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122354
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The renegade states- Virginia, Georgia,/
Texas, and the rest- should have lost their names
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122320
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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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122300
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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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