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Alysia saw her reflection in Suzaku’s eyes. There was an empty face looking back.
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Did I knowingly choose to enter Gloria’s garden and the warm, dark, hollow spaces she offers? Or is it something else that draws me?
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The sun was bright, warm and blew through my hair like the wind.
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"covered in a sheen of sweat, flowers of salt bloom on my T-shirt"
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It’ll all make sense when you're sitting on an éclair chaise longue by the morning pool of coffee.
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If I came home and she had peed, even after I walked her in the morning before I left, I would tighten up my whole face and shoulders, so I wouldn't hit her, and I would grab her by the tags collar, and I would hiss at her what she needed to know, what sh
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1A voice scratches her ear: Come here, petal.Later: …
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When the phone rings that late at night, it’s not good.
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She smoothed her hair with a hand that should have been the turning pages of a cheap dime-store novel. I watched her from under my eyebrows but kept my head fixed downward, pretending to pay attention to the 6 ½ narrow stiletto heeled black alligator pumps. Not easy to do,…
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Looking back now, examining from a distance the sequence of events I failed to connect as anything beyond queer happenstance...
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The nude woman sits straight back, with her hand indented in the flesh at her hip, bracing herself as the comb is pulled through her long hair, with her breasts thrust forward into the light.
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The summer we were fourteen we snuck out of our houses...
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You can ask so many questions
Of what’s it all about
You can empty out the closets
And roll the mothballs out
But no one has the answers
It’s all a mystery
There’s a bigger picture
But it’s really hard to see
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Nostalgia is
when memories
turn into Gods
of knowing who you were.
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Because of her I got there early, and like I figured, the train was late.
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On the way back from New Jersey this afternoon, my dad kept pressing “seek” on the radio dial so he could find WBLS, which we listened to last night, also on our way back from New Jersey. I was driving last night because I wanted to and because I think my dad…
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I came back down in skinny jeans with holes in them and the tights still on. Little purple kneecaps.
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Don’t shout. Be nice
Cheer up. Sit up
Straight. Don’t play
With your food. Elbows
Off the table. Watch
Your language. Use
Your napkin. Eat the
Crust
Stop fidgeting
Stop scratching
Close your mouth
When you chew
Remember to
Clea
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i try/to get/up but you prove/your strength.
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What I’ve got is
priceless,
but no one
wants it.
Hmmm.
I wonder if
I can
give it away,
or have to
haul it to the
dump?
What I have is priceless.
Priceless.
What I have
is priceless,
but no one wants it.
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He found a small place on a side street, Bar Oiseaux Ésotérique. There was a sign on the door that read: Jazz Ce Soir: Giovanni Lezardino: Jazz grillé et sautés. Ben had met Lezardino at the Newport Jazz Festival last year.
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are you afraid sometimes, in the night, in the wind as it beats down your maelstrom thoughts?
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It's eight fifteen in the morning, my favorite time to call, and a guy named Ernie DeCampo answers the door in his work pants and a t-shirt. “Good morning, Mr.De Campo,” I say. “Do you have any fireworks in your home?” …
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I like to keep my mind uncluttered for truly fresh information, like the fact that T.S. Eliot taught Virginia Woolf the Chicken Strut. That's news you can use.
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This is not an indie movie about love and happiness and Al Green songs redone by actresses pretending to be songwriters.
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Ok, ok, so I concede
some answers are enough to make you cry or laugh yourself to death.
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I love her now, but I used hate her because she’d leave hairs on my bar of soap.
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I dreamed I might one day become the numero uno tango singer in Boston.
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