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What do you Americans say, here is ze kicker?
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81093
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How many extinctions can we claim?/
Is someone keeping score?/
Somebody needs to keep the score
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80911
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Deep in Stationcity they began to drum.
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80900
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The dark staircase creaked as he crept down to the basement. The even whoosh-whoosh of the washing machine was comforting to him. He reached for the light as he entered the room. A dim bulb blinked on above him. There was a small table across the room f
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80944
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I was at the bend in the road
thinking of Robert Frost
but there was no fork,
there was no yellow wood,
there wasn’t even a horse
to ask me why or what if
There was no decision to be made
just a thousand tourists from Prague
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80984
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I now felt prepared to waltz under a K bullet that hits a stucco brick above the tropical hibiscus.
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80911
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A man stared out a window,
only to see a passing train.
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80920
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He sat on the floor and said, "I found this letter W in the jungle. It's b-b-beautiful,"
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80960
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I know I shouldn’t brag, but you bought me roses, a dozen. I felt I could balance anywhere, when I was with you. I could achieve poise on the head of a pin. There was no need to hide anything, and I heard night music wherever we went. I sat with lovers,
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80900
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Keiko covered her arm while holding the staff. She looked up and saw morning breaking through the sky, but something was unusual about it.
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80942
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First, he wrote it in a patch of new, wet cement one night at the intersection, for everyone to see, “Tad Loves Kimberley.” Maybe they were still in high school, or one of them worked at the café on the corner, and the other at the ice cream shop. Then
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80951
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80932
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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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80820
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Almonds of childhood – fending off needless tears and chocolate impulses, almonds of my teens, slivered and toasted industrially baked settling in on egg washed croissant…mashed into the kitchen sink of the catch-all bear claw, then the taste and shiv
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80811
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She burns
her wrists with menthols; she says
it's too much effort to cut
them. Besides, it's
more fun.
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80800
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The smell of your chest, and the taste of your lips
as they touch mine
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80822
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One night just as I dozed off I was awakened by a circular saw going right next to my head. The coke dealer was working on his deck. His hair was biblically long and he wore a pair of goggles as he worked on his patio utterly oblivious to my presence just
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80895
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The pen point sits motionless on the paper...
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80810
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Focusing on reflections of clear lines on scummed glass, reflexes not quite as fast as they used to be, seeing things but not clearly, straining, these muscles worn out servos, grunting, can't quite bring things together, but why do this to yourself. More pointless than…
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80800
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It was just after lunch when they found the box.
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80810
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The north street was always a mean part of Port Neches. Too far up for oil company patrols ...
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80820
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“I believe it is some form of primitive recreation with a board and wheels,” the one and a half eyed orange blob said with an Australian accent.
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80811
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Anastomose my veins to / yours so we may / share // a dream pooled between us
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80821
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martyred young women lie in hospital beds
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80832
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I would have given your son to you. I would have had him in a heartbeat. And I would have showed him your inner beauty, even though you were absent. I would have hidden nothing from his nature. I would have given him everything and anything he needed, s
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80754
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Those resting in clusters of bones, Cradled in ashes of what once were homes.
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80700
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The Party and the Body The party at my mother's ended Saturday night deep into Sunday's morning. I tried to remember the exact circumstances of the end but although they wouldn't come it didn't worry me. I knew I would remember at a certain point. It…
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80711
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Michael remembered when he would lay awake at night as a child and in his mind escape to the woods.
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80721
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The body does what a body must
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80700
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It is far into the future when humanity has all but squandered the sustenance of its home, Earth. Because of this, myself and three other candidates are selected to participate in a top-secret mission to retrieve fresh sources of solidified hydrogen from
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