1006 3 2
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About four in the afternoon
a pigeon began admiring itself
in the shiny panel of a car door
until another pigeon came along
and it quit acting foolish.
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100600
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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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100632
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Questions unanswered proliferate/
across the April sky, blue//
with wisps of cirrus white.
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100565
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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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10051211
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100521
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We were fleeing Hurricane Katrina
We stopped somewhere in Texas at a roadside diner
But found a sign that said it was closed
All of a sudden as we sat there in our car
The shop’s owner knocked on the window
And asked what he could get for us
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100500
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100551
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It had all been for the children, hadn´t it?
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100554
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Fat, religious, full of himself,
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100500
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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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100575
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No CNN to sing obliteration,/
only Pliny the Younger/
to scratch what fell
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100550
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It's the kind of neighborhood where the bar above the hot dog stand functions as a drug warehouse. Lowest prices, biggest selection, friendliest — highest — associates. I live here, a block over in the midst of sushi joints and frat boys, but I live…
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100533
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Father, trouble me memory;laconic, idle, some glint on the dark. Recall us to me: what did we have, or what did we lose? Like some late affection, open me again, laugh it out of us. It is not loss I'm looking toput back together, papered over…
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100433
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I come here, to this very spot for a reason. Imagine — the illusion of knowing what is and is not. The contentment drops taste — one could suppose — like that.
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100430
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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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100400
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“Hello. How are you?” “Me? I'm fine actually. Just sitting here in this little coffee shop. Sipping my coffee. I like it black, did you know that?” “Like your men?” ‘Excuse me?” “It's a joke… from…
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100440
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laying with you, thinking with you, breathing with you
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100432
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100421
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Life is a beach, not an enormous ashtry.
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1004125
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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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100300
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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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100310
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She left the bathroom and slammed the bedroom door. He heard the lock close.
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100394
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I'm hoping, I'm reaching,
I'm scratching the sky...
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100320
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Connecting the dots the past two weeks, I’ve concluded you’re pregnant again.
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10031714
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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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100321
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“You’re just like me,” she said, as dawn was breaking. “You like sex.”
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100353
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A thrum of imminent sentience-
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100311
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Who's that? I don't know. …
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100322
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Eager to please the guards, doctors and preachers
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100300
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Ben did not respond, but sat staring lizard-eyed at the shattered remains of his glorious musical instrument.
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