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At the Rest Home for Silence
We are teenagers
At best
I have to admit
I fell asleep on the bus
On the way to the Rest Home
For Silence
And I woke up
To the noise
Coming from the
Overfilled silence
It's the overfilled silenc
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Jessica's face was so close to mine I had to focus on her left eyeball to keep my eyes from crossing.
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I don't think I minded so much watching the trucks hit him, one breaking his spine with a decisive snap, and the other finishing the job by splitting his skull. I don't think I minded watching as much as I did watching those two boys poking around at his
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Captain Nemo never died./
He cruises all the seven seas/
below the waves in Nautilus 2,
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I didn’t say to eat your keys and parrots.
It was peas and carrots. Idiot!
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A door in the hallway, with 30E in brass letters glinting dully on its polished surface, lying sideways on the floor like a beacon.
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“You're right by the mall, the cultural district, and just a few minutes from downtown,” the realtor smiled. “And it's on a bus line?” the wife asked. “Yes it…
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rinse
plate cup glass spoon
bowl soapy water
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Sometimes your Monday morning answer to the inevitable questions don't have to be so mundane and repetitive. And sometimes they do. No one gives a shit anyway.
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Musing on female beauty I came up with this: it makes my dick hard. And if that's a bit crude, well, hell, I'm dead. Want to sue me? Back when the clans were at one with the earth, circa goo-gobs of long years B.C., female beauty meant…
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Trenches coated with man-gruel laced the earth.
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The end, she thought, when did we end? She knew it had to end. Ten months in and it was no different from the day they met. Then again, the day they met it seemed as if they’d known each other ten years. That was the nature of their relationship she
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The silence grew louder as it grew longer.
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A stroll along the golf course rim reveals Polo-logoed litter. Could this be what they mean by white trash?
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"..sneezing repeatedly into an obviously saturated cocktail napkin,.."
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The diner on the corner is one of those Disneyfied modern cut-outs trying to mimic the actual thing but failing utterly. The street, a vein of hipness running through an Ivy League campus that is still trying to cling to a time when it all meant something
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We watched through the plate glass window, like kids watching a mother guppy eat her young. A woman approached the sweaters but stopped suddently, as if she sensed the dark force Darth Vader projects in Star Wars movies.
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She sees her first husband on the bathroom floor, ingrained in the wood.
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In the afternoon, there was a certain time when the sunlight spilled through the windows in the common room and made everything look all bright and fresh and optimistic. If you ignored the patients and doctors milling about and…
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All of the students’ eyes were fixed on him, and now Nelson was embarrassed. It’s not that he didn’t want to pay attention. He already knew the answer to this book. But he wouldn’t dare tell the rest of the class or Mrs. Edwards.
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"Here's the bad news: you have to wear a patch over your eye for the next six weeks."
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Ben watched Monique disappear into the first-class cabin. It didn’t seem likely that he would see her again after this flight.
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People could disappear in the Pine Barrens and never be seen again. Either by their own choice or when someone didn’t want the body found. John Dance knew that was just a part of life you had to accept and couldn’t change.
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Mom would dig through one of her music boxes to pick out Saturday morning's cleaning jams. Tattered, battered Payless shoeboxes with lids ripped to shit, filled to capacity with piles of cassettes; greatest hits albums, mostly, or Time Life compilations of mid-to-late…
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FedEx merges with UPS
becoming
FedUp
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...Yet today, I fear /
ordinary names for fantastic objects: Sex, Love, Mind.
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You fall with your eyes closed because otherwise you wouldn't dare.
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I had laid my hand down hard upon a long forgotten shard of an old coke bottle.
The cut is deep.
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