1101 4 2
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Vicki's scream echoed in Michiko's ear, an unwelcome earworm.
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it's all a bit like the quiet steam
drifting to nowhere off my microwaved
hot coffee in the sunflower mug
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Sometimes I think our gathering is a ritual centered on collective visualization. Other times I feel like I have been physically transported. I am not sure there is a difference.
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This is the place you need a third hand
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Last night I met a man from the same littleshithole townthat you are fromand I kissed him in the mouth to find out if he tasted like coallike you do.While he slept, I tried to pinpoint on a map I drew on his back exactly how far apart you might have been:how many years…
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Writers, in general, enjoy the solitude that their profession allows, or more precisely, requires. I consider myself a member of that generalized group, along with a more exclusive club of writers who also tolerate an occasional…
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the dark brown cloaked warden stands on his lofty perch
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1100 1 1
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I was told, take him round the back and deal with him.
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I like burning lavender on glowing charcoal and dancing hard, thinking about long futures and deep moments. I want to cry and then scream and I don't feel like cleaning up. If I can keep a rhythm going long enough,I think I can build…
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The Sunday sunset slowly simmers the sea.
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Tell me how beautiful I am and I'll dance for you Tell me how much you love my smile and I'll kiss you softly Paint a picture of me and I will lie still Let me see your smile and watch me exhale Rock me back and forth and my eyes close I see rocky shores and…
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1100 5 1
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Every time I look at you there are two dumb mouths that slip between stretch marks.
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I saw a big dog
By the side of the road
I saw a small deer
By the side of the road
A little maroon water in a glass
As I was driving home
Under darkness
With the wind that was under a rose
New blood will fill the earth
And we must lo
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1100 1 1
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Periodically I try to vacuum up their eight-legged asses but they hide in the cable drop.
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They ride horses through the living room ....
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You
sawed off my wings then
Asked
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The white moon is dangling
by a thread tonight.
I close my eyes
and listen to it undress.
Your halo fell around your ankles
and you became see-through,
but there’s a vast gulf between being pretty,
and pretty dangerous.
Still, I’ve s
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His will is whole, inviolate,
and wholly full of possibility.
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One time in Laguna Beach I remember sleeping with a girl I met at this café, the Jolly Roger, when we went back to my apartment and had unprotected sex. She said she was on the pill, but you never know. It was just that one time, and she did seem desperat
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Luke and Diane sat at a round white table looking around the room. There were clusters of people forming an archipelago of cordial exchange and small talk. All but a few were strangers, friends and family of his sister-in-law Mary, now a widow, though the word sounded…
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Italian authorities seized $1.9 billion in "green" investments made by La Cosa Nostra to launder money. Reuters
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He’d eaten every kind of pizza from the most sublime to the foulest.
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... if he planned to install them in their bedroom she would find them more than a little distracting.
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I'm looking for the perfect/passage, a safe, sound/jettison to now.
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Upstairs, in a room where some years later, the occupant would be murdered by his lover, I sat in my skivvies in an armchair and wondered if I should call my wife.
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Unhappiness is a necessary boon
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I had coffee with one of my characters today. It did not go well. I thought we were friends, but I guess I was wrong.
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I give you three words
dripping wet with whatever and you
take them, harbor them...
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