996 2 0 
      
			 
			
			
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				She was wearing a robe, but her hip movement sent an ancient message. 
					
				 
				
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995 2 1 
      
			 
			
			
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				if you lost your list on your way here
i will help you get what you came for. 
					
				 
				
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995 3 4 
      
			 
			
			
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				You're all I've got to keep me company, but it's a very fine company. So familiar, and warm as any cold digital fireplace. I can tell you've got more in your story, but it doesn't make you happy. I really do not feel well today. Fun I wanted to… 
					
				 
				
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995 3 3 
      
			 
			
			
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				That son of a bitch meant every word. Every filthy mouthful of insults that hit me was intentional and focused. 
					
				 
				
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995 2 0 
      
			 
			
			
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				He cut a hole in the sack  
					
				 
				
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995 4 4 
      
			 
			
			
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				Wheels are spinning 
On the country roads tonight 
I’m driving all alone 
No one else in sight 
And the wind’s in my hair 
And I don’t care 
Yeah, the wind’s in my hair 
And I don’t care 
 
					
				 
				
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995 7 6 
      
			 
			
			
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				The leaves/
that clung through February/
fall, dung brown,  
					
				 
				
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995 14 12 
      
			 
			
			
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				We danced the pee dance after too much Seven Up and tasted odd Jello dishes. 
					
				 
				
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995 5 4 
      
			 
			
			
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				I watched her look at mewithout any eyes.She turned her head as wesat on the edge of the bed.Instead of eyesthere were hollow indentations of soft tissue,bulbs, and closed,tissue sown, pinched togetherwith pulls and zigzagslike crosshatching, where… 
					
				 
				
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994 0 0 
      
			 
			
			
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				Dust and blood and disgust 
					
				 
				
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994 0 1 
      
			 
			
			
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				His long black lashes stir, flutter a wink. His eyes catch yours through the dark reflection of your face, illuminated from beneath by wavering candlelight. Reflection obscures his features; they become yours. 
					
				 
				
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994 0 0 
      
			 
			
			
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				“Our legs are touching.  Our legs.  Touching.  The light from the  screen illuminates your eyes.  Off and on.  Even in night scenes.   Maybe it dances in the eyes of other people there too.  But I doubt  it.  Not like… 
					
				 
				
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994 0 0 
      
			 
			
			
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				exiled from hell where no torture    could            touch you to a        cloud                in heaven where no… 
					
				 
				
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994 5 1 
      
			 
			
			
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				The gecko instinctively knew that if he moved, he was dead. 
					
				 
				
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994 4 4 
      
			 
			
			
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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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994 2 1 
      
			 
			
			
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				...somehow that light has found me. 
					
				 
				
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994 0 0 
      
			 
			
			
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				The apple tree is pretty and hangs On it's limbsFull pictures Like the executioner songover the head of a bladeAt the end of a rainbow waiting for a cold cloud To blow away a daffodil And leave porcelain tea cups at the end of a dull dayLike doilies waiting to be ripped… 
					
				 
				
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994 5 3 
      
			 
			
			
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				Cockroaches may be falling through the holes 
in the floorboards of heaven, but we will not be disturbed. 
We are agents, free and clear, even if a little bit mean. 
I want to quit worrying about money, 
but the angels upstairs won’t let me. 
The 
					
				 
				
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993 4 4 
      
			 
			
			
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				It’s always daylight there 
My brother comes running down the sidewalk 
holding out his arms and calling my name 
He’s wearing suspenders. He’s gotten thinner 
in heaven 
He embraces me warmly 
wanting us to be friends 
I give up trying to resist 
 
					
				 
				
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993 4 3 
      
			 
			
			
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				We could act the anthropologist. 
					
				 
				
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993 1 1 
      
			 
			
			
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				We are / packed in a speck of dust / adrift across the universe, / revolving an ember.  
					
				 
				
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993 1 1 
      
			 
			
			
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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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993 2 0 
      
			 
			
			
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				There is an obstacle, as if truth has a place of its own. This is the phantom where my roommate turns off her headlights Upstate, while we’re singing: No more, No more, stay as you are. 
					
				 
				
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993 1 0 
      
			 
			
			
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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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993 4 4 
      
			 
			
			
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				It was a battered, creaky, rickety old thing, this  wheelbarrow. It had two wooden handles with cracks running through the wood, a  fat rubber wheel and a deep tray encrusted with the mud and plaster and grout  that it had transported through decades of heavy use. Based on… 
					
				 
				
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993 0 0 
      
			 
			
			
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				it is a wonder that we are speakingyou and iafter the fall season felt hopeful.Now the words mean nothingmy fairy has taken a vacationand women sleep with men in nice suits. 
					
				 
				
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993 5 4 
      
			 
			
			
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				I flipped a large cardboard coin 
On one side it said 
Abundance 
But on the other side it said 
Scarcity 
I went to the store 
And began packing everything I could get 
Into my shopping cart 
But the things that started spilling over 
Onto the 
					
				 
				
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992 2 0 
      
			 
			
			
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				You were never at all like Narcissus, trying to remember girls’ names with marble in their eyes. You never adored your own image, looking at yourself in the river, not like I did (looking in the mirror that brings sleep.) I remember you admiring the dre 
					
				 
				
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992 10 6 
      
			 
			
			
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				Mothers and sons and war, an old story... 
					
				 
				
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992 3 2 
      
			 
			
			
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				In the sad suburban subdivision
with its cul-de-sacs and broken curbs 
					
				 
				
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