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We danced the pee dance after too much Seven Up and tasted odd Jello dishes.
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115401
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But all I see, the only irresolute shape in my mind that forms and becomes real, is you.
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115400
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It was mostly accidental.
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115444
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The graffiti has grown so large
It has covered everything we know and love
It has covered the windows, shutting out the light
And it’s all about leaving your mark
The ones who are living outside your walls
Have grown worried about leaving th
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115421
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Floozy Walks Into a Bar
Toting a handbag the size of a small suitcase
Because you never know
Floozy Walks Into a Bar
Dragging her reputation behind her
And everyone looks behind her too
Floozy Walks Into a Bar
To test the temperature of
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115482
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115421
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By the time he says “I am tired of the smell of pig shit and death” you’ve already lost interest
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115431
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I killed it.
Didn't even relocate it back to its outdoor home, as I had work to do.
This is being human.
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115350
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They were all celebrating something, but she couldn’t see what it was.
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115310
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“You got a cigarette, man?” “Hey, mister, you got a cigarette?” “You got a cigarette, mister?” “Hey, mister, you listening to me? You got any spare change?” The voice was coming from the…
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115330
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I've brought a stack of old photo albums to the home with me. It'll be nice to go through them with Mum, I'm thinking.When I arrive she's doing her usual routine, where she sits silent for a time then bursts unprompted into laughter, lungs rattling, shouting at some…
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115332
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Billy fell into a bottle, and we couldn't get him out.
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115310
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“He’s a tough nut,” says CIA officer Marlon McGrath. “He says he’ll die a martyr rather than crack before we get to the Booster Club award for outstanding female athlete.”
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115365
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The superhero is out there in the fields, discovering herself.
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115322
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the visual field is an in-rushing city of refractions bouncing across the water.
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115300
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It seems like that is all I really knowThe narrow confines of my existenceThe sun rises and falls somewhere,And all living things, move, work struggle and fightCarrying a bucket of water, while the sunBangs the day's rhythm on my armsThere's a war going on, all the…
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115310
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i’ve started writing these things down
on blue-lined notebook paper
or really anything i can get
my tendonitis-ridden hands on.
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115311
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I looked through the window of my shop here in Laredo and saw him standing there with his six-shooters drawn as I sized him up from his head to his toes. A ten-gallon, weathered black hat sat atop his head and a worn pock-marked and sun-bleached, denim shirt criss-crossed…
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115343
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11521710
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I hate turnstiles and revolving doors
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115296
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115200
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Jim twisted the skinny trunk of his body in a fast, violent jerk just as the cop grabbed the buckle of his left Harley Davidson boot. When the boot flopped off, Jim found himself sitting upright, ready to jump up and run. But then he felt the baton lock down on his…
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115210
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It was the absence of small sounds he felt most. The clink of a spoon against china, a floorboard’s distant creak, the swish of that old, broken-toothed comb through her hair. A thousand tiny sounds that had proved he wasn’t alone.
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115255
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with binoculars
neighbor reads
screen text:
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115230
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Hole #1 – Loop-de-Loop
A piece of metal curved into a loop like a curlicue off-ramp. Jake and I step up to the Golf-O-Rama mat like accidental twins. My ball is half blue and half orange, like a gas station freebie. The old man at the desk said I
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115200
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I thought drowning you was the answer. I had barely opened my eyes as I leaned over the sink to brush my teeth, and you were poised near the drain, a furry brown spider, and the largest one I had ever seen up close. I was afraid to smash you, so I flooded you with…
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115200
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This is hell amongst the bloom and grow.
Spring's warmth is cruel,
a feast of unrestraint...
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115200
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it always takes too long to figure it out
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115220
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I will watch your teeth measure the highway all the way home.
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115111
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City cars packed with eyes
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