1003 0 0
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Petroleum products leaked from her shattered hull, still stinking of a battle its leaders not only lost, but forfeited.
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1003 1 1
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Who's that? I don't know. …
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This girl had burn scars on her body which hurt a little, to be touched, so we had to be real careful, gentle. I turned her over slowly so as not to shatter her. She wanted to be fucked, badly. But only one time. It was enough to be handled again like bef
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Questions unanswered proliferate/
across the April sky, blue//
with wisps of cirrus white.
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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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A petition submitted to the Planning Department of Palm Beach Florida requests a zoning variance applied to Mar — a — Lago. Studies, backed by research, have defined Mar-a- Lago, an ideal location for shelter and protection for immigrants, fleeing from…
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1002 4 4
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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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Chin beards, flannel shirts, Levis
no boots anymore, just loose sandals
their chicks with double triple multiple chins
falling asleep on their own palms
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1002 0 0
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“Isril, I won't lose dis child tuh hunger,” Mina said as she rocked her young son to sleep. Noah sat on her lap, head on her chest, and exhaled a plaintive moan that grew softer and softer with…
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1002 2 1
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“You’re just like me,” she said, as dawn was breaking. “You like sex.”
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1002 2 2
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Eager to please the guards, doctors and preachers
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1002 1 0
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I invented a game called Church & State
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1001 2 1
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As the patter of our passing feet fades.
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1001 3 0
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Valerie had purchased a new cell phone in late 2007, and, say a few months afterwards, in the beginning of 2008 a demon briefly took up residence in it. She had just returned home from running a few errands, and set her phone down on her desk. She had been focusing on…
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1001 0 0
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Dave Sharpe silently pulled his desk chair out of its nook that was conveniently placed underneath his desk. He took a deep breath as he slowly took his place in the seat and nudged it into a perfect…
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1001 4 0
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laying with you, thinking with you, breathing with you
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1001 0 0
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A sweltering heat sits on the field like a fog failing to move. From the diamond, you were able to see the Chicago skyline poking above the apartment buildings like antennas, sending signals all throughout the world.
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1001 1 1
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As soon as he neared his neighborhood newsstand, handed over the exact change and had The New York Times in his hand, Irving switched from feeling he had no choices, to feeling he had a future.
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1001 5 3
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A thrum of imminent sentience-
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1001 2 1
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Life is a beach, not an enormous ashtry.
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1001 12 5
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That some adults believed the drill would save/
us from the blast of fusioned hydrogen//
amused us as we quietly curled along
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Slowly
slowly
the veil is lifted
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The men stir around so aimlessly
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1000 2 0
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Connecting the dots the past two weeks, I’ve concluded you’re pregnant again.
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1000 3 0
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there are nights when you're all alonein the darkwhere the only lightis the glow of the computer screenand words can't seem the scratchthe surface of your skulland bit by bitthe sentences, phrases, and lettersattached to your synapsesdrownin your subconscious
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The paper
in his typewriter
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My real parents lived about 200 miles in the other direction from where we came. But long ago I determined they were too real.
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They were overweight, diabetic, and trapped in a cellphone dead zone.
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