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The north street was always a mean part of Port Neches. Too far up for oil company patrols ...
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110346
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Some things stay with you. I got off the bus, petted my dog, Nick and walked in our house and saw Mother at the kitchen table, crying and clearly angry. I asked her if she was sick. She works. She said that she didn't go to work today and might not go tomorrow…
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I would have given your son to you. I would have had him in a heartbeat. And I would have showed him your inner beauty, even though you were absent. I would have hidden nothing from his nature. I would have given him everything and anything he needed, s
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110221
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As the patter of our passing feet fades.
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110266
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Here it comes at long last. We just can't do it like that again. We don't have the same time. But something's wanting something more to be more than this. Here it comes again. But you bailed on me the last time around. Went silent as a…
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(...) I know my eyes are shut and I’m on the kitchen floor but I see her and I’m not confused. (...)
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“Can I get apple juice and milk?” “Yes.” “And a chocolate shake?” “Will you finish all that and your food?” “Probably not.” “Still yes. Get whatever you want.” The waitress took the order. Along…
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A pair of snakes contemplates gulping a pair of frogs.
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110200
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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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110232
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“Your family, that family is crazy, everyone of them hush hush, tweet tweet, a little screw loose – or a bird, what kind of bird they got there?”
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110100
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Hello, I am Enè Ioh, I have come to to tell you a story that takes place within the place. I start at the place; I go to the place. Here we are, at the place. I am now at the place. I know what I say is of no consequence and I will be killed for it. It means so…
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110165
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It was the early 80's My students carried / guns.
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110100
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Weeds, schist, an Artesian well: élan in a heavenly forge. Sniffling goats, a mossy cairn. A portal divides the void. There is a human hand here below the crumbling parapet. The crotch of time A bridge between…
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Pieces that said shrug a shrug and then another and one to right with the eyes that squint and one to left with rhythm that never left. And piece after piece, after piece they stich themselves, née weave a tapestry that is the dance your very walk swayed
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1101108
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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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110197
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He remembers his father’s concrete slab hands. Balled into fists they resembled kettlebells.
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110100
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The windows aren't open because they are closed for winter, but Cha doesn't care. She stares through them while I stare at her.
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110100
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It was just after lunch when they found the box.
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110197
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No one believed me when I told them this: I took all of my novels and tossed them into the fire.
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110165
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That was the year I got my Daisy bee-bee gun for Christmas....
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110100
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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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110020
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The longer this goes on the worse it gets.
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110031
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I am in a war against the literal. I have sewn these words together to make a stand of birch. I wander the earth gathering moon shadows and swords. Kerosene dots punctuate the Dakota night. An apparition of words hops through a calculus problem and falls into a…
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110054
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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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110030
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I prowl. You prowl. We all prowl.
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110098
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What will become/
of the resource-sucking poor
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110000
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For every Ruben Studdard, there are ten Mick Jaggers and, considered merely in terms of avoirdupois, the two sides of that scale would probably balance.
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