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a distinct hardness that translates into solidity, and a lightness that translates into beauty, and I thought I’d find you there,
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111823
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Robot telephones me today...
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111800
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The last time I was with Terry, she surprised me by crossing herself just before we had sex. She too had been going out with this Mario pimp, with his ski boat out on Fox River. The guy who was going around sniffing after most (if not all) of my old gir
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111810
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I am seven and it is in one of those spring stretches where temperatures proceed enough to make walking acceptable if not amicable. Pop cans and chip bags once boasting glossy surfaces and daring hues now faded to match asphalt fields. Other bits of things…
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111875
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All the lights of Rekyjavik...
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111800
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Besotted by an overload of scotch, Ben’s brain barely alerted him to loud knocking at his door.
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11181011
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"What's it like?"
Like everything else. We all do it, so how bad could it be?
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“I come from a long line of Toad Kings,” Huckleberry said, “and we never back down from a bet.”Phyllis, a great white heron, lowered her long white neck so she could get a better look into her friend's golden eyes.“I just think you…
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111800
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I was reading The Transmission of Doubt by Adi Da, and since it was just shy of five hundred pages, I had become tired and needed air. It was funny because Eglington Square Mall had only one floor and was more like a mini mall than anything, with a beer store on…
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111844
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Now your dreams are
headed for the Rhyme or Reason
Convention
where they try to convince you
you can do this
Trying to make sense of
everything
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111853
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I needed a job. They needed a writer without humanistic moral qualms to create slogans for the Human Annihilation Project
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111800
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Her through the phone line, a pause, a hold in her voice. Mom. The things we miss as adults, the turns of phrase, the little pauses. The in between of conversations are opportunities are avenues, five lane highways where we can be…
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111822
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First they
Dust off the bottom of the sky
But then the clock gets stuck
At 3 seconds till uncertainty
Then they
Dye the sunset clouds
To make them more
Transparent
So as not to confuse
The human mind
With the stuff of uncommon
Nostalgia
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111832
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I stabbed a man at the Blue-Buick Bar and Grill. This may not be shocking news, all things considered. The man I stabbed didn't think it was all that shocking, even while it was happening. I'd had a lot of those energy drinks -- six or seven -- even before I'd puked…
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111853
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I've always been a sucker for a pretty face. It's unreasonable sometimes. Yesterday, in the middle of nowhere was a house that might have seen better days in the dustbowl of depression era Oklahoma. Two Australian Shepherds launched from the rickety porch. It was clear…
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111844
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peripheral dreams fall out from the head / the body squirms then burrows abed: /
“have you had a good life? you now have less! / —led a hard life instead? you soon will be gone!”
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111820
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And then, like all those nights before, she just fell asleep seducing me.
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111786
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The cicadas struck their soundsTheir ribs made a clicking drumThe sound was formed over buckling ribsvibrations sounds like a maracas bangle beatingShe sat up in a lounge chair trying to sleepThe tiny ants she found tickling her armThey crawled from some hole…
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111711
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A hymn for her
when his head
cocks shameless.
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111742
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the echo of the hull's first contact with the water will pull the past through the present and the present into the past.
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111775
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111785
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The next/
may be the lucky one,/
undiscovered all these years.
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111786
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One final herculean strain, if it didn’t kill him might get him at least to his knees.
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111662
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Somewhere in the tenth dimension
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When I got out I didn't buya new suit of clothes, stepinto a bar, or bargainfor an hour with a whore.I walked from McGee Streetover to Russell and wonderedif Bus 16 still went out of its wayto loop around the traffic knotat the shopping mall. It'd drop you thereif you had…
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111620
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Connecting the dots the past two weeks, I’ve concluded you’re pregnant again.
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There’s Julie-she’s the cineaste–
Au courant woman with a past.
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made of meat and born to breed
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