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Shit, I guess I'm gonna hafta
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115743
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The items were not selected. The people were not forced to choose, with tears and a suffocating feeling.
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115721
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I’m leaning into my freedom and will have you take your portable prison with you and you can set those four walls across town.
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115743
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On the way to
The Museum of Inner Light
Expect delays
Expect bumps in the road
Expect potholes and such
Expect a murder of crows
Rolling acorns over the rooftops
But what I want to know is who
Who eats a butterfly
On the way to
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115711
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In 1609 Ben Jonson was hired to write a work in celebration of the opening of a new shopping mall.
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115721
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She was asked: “What would it mean to be in a great earthquake to you?”
She said: “It would mean that I might never see him again.”
Then she panicked. She came to me and said: “Do you mind riding in the other car? I have to ride in the same car wi
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115711
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"We improvised to show our Spanish compadres that we meant them no disrespect, and the running of the cats was born."
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115700
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The canvas bag lay crumpled and moaning in the middle of the room as Mister and Miss Marital Bliss contemplated what to do to it next. Spots of deep crimson blossomed like spring flowers all over the white sack and a large pool had gathered underneath. Rivulets of blood…
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115641
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They had to dress normal, my other boyfriends, be beardless, hairless, everything torn away, plucked, shorn smooth, because it elicited moisture on the tongue (when I was with you.) But I grew bored as the day before I first saw you.
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115697
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He remembers his father’s concrete slab hands. Balled into fists they resembled kettlebells.
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115621
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115651
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the Coke made his butt leak blood
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115520
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I won't ever forget the image of my father, behind the wheel of the Cadillac he so loved. Even as a ten year old, and more as an adult, I could never figure out why he loved that car as much as he did. I must explain that he was really my step father,…
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115520
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After Loretta McKinley had sat for just such a time on a rock near the tribe, hallucinating and coming as close to death and God as she ever had, she walked into the camp and asked to speak with the elders.
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1155108
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"I’d rather move a word around a page
than raise a glass or pass a plate
or work a room immune to poetry."
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115553
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It was a summer full of rage and discontent. The air had a new taste to it, reminiscent of the tang of battery acid.
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115523
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In the beginning there was salt.
God licked the salt and said it was
Good. Then there was light.
And then chocolate.
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115531
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We bring words together and set them up on blind dates. Watch them build a history together, get married and fight together. Make offspring syllables cradled warm in cribs of punctuation. Phonemes squeezed into existence by two parenthesis. Words…
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We once saw giants in the clouds and in/
connected points of stars, and named/
them, gods. We placed them in their high-halled villas,/
on the mountaintop, to game and frolic
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115420
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Apparently we must endure them forever, the gods. My willingness to live among them, and love, with their high-pitched voices. To endure or be endured equally, each one of the Fates, each one of the high hearers stammering out the certainty of their lov
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115422
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One hand holds the string-like railing; the other holds a bright silver toaster.
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115461
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You gave me chills on my opposite hip whenever you touched me from behind, when we spooned under the rough woolen blanket in your basement. Whenever your essence touched my life like that. Just like when you said, “You came, that’s all.”
That’s all? T
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There was the small wooden structure near the base of the mountain. It had weathered many storms and its walls talked about the scars of this. In the hills to the west various cries came out from feral animals that seemed to go linger that autumn. But it had been a…
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“Hello, I’m Marlene, and this is April,” says the older of two women. Both Marlene and April wear ankle length dresses. The name Hester Prynne flashes through my mind.
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115482
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A pair of snakes contemplates gulping a pair of frogs.
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115462
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His beard is an eighteenth-century forest / in south central France
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They use people
then throw them away
They are after the image
There is a desperation in (it)
They behave as if they must have it
It must be a drug
to them
Are they that able?
. . .
They bring it over here and then all they want
is im
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artifacts gone obsolete / miscegenating in suspension
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The leaves/
that clung through February/
fall, dung brown,
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