2086 10 3
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I can feel everything getting closer, the past catching up. All the cunts and cocks and clits I've ever touched. I left them all on the other side of the world, and now they're creeping back to me.
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2086 20 9
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“Your mother has problems,” he told the kids.
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2085 3 2
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Homegirl wanted someone to love her so much they could suicide together.
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2085 25 13
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I was sitting on the therapist’s couch in someone else’s boxer shorts.
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2084 14 4
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He had the cannonball head of Hemingway, the stump neck, sloping shoulders and barrel chest.
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2084 8 5
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You may gather from me
the spring of my youth
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2084 6 4
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"...if Rosie O'Donnell were to attach a horn to her forehead, she'd move up the ranks as the deadliest creature in the world."
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2084 9 6
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I realized something must be terribly wrong.
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2084 15 7
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“Black is up, red is down,” I said, knowing he turned to pleasant memories of lawbreaking when he felt discouraged. I asked him to meet me for coffee. He said he hadn’t bought a coffee in a year.
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2083 11 4
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My name is Wanda McClure and I lived in the foothills of Eastern Kentucky. A small town miles off the interchange, and mostly in the middle of nowhere. I lived in a trailer. I was 52 years old.
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2082 14 12
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...but still, when she whispers that going out now might put her in the mood later he unties from his mooring and sets them both drifting toward the gin-splintered latitudes
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2082 1 1
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Pushing his jeans down around his ankles, he knelt, and pressed his moist dipstick against my hole. “Do you always do this on a first date?” he said
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2082 19 3
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"And you’ll forgive my sayin’, your Maggie’s in heat, and if ya want to keep her you’re gonna ‘ave to fight. To be sure after this they’ll leave ya alone.”
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2082 2 0
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Until millennia have passed and the world is dug up
For future historians to ponder
And through their meticulous disassembling of dirt
They will find my book.
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2081 9 6
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Schrödinger did not keep cats about just by accident, and were they keeping an eye on him!
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2081 14 10
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I can never tell if he’s drunk or using some sort of substance or if perhaps his brain just doesn’t fire at the pace that we have come to accept as normal.
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2081 8 3
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Was I a dreamer? Was I asking for too much?
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2081 28 12
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2080 6 5
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She believes that this started with a phone call when she walked out of the deli yesterday. She believes that it started when it was snowing this morning in Brooklyn, waiting for her car to arrive, but the truth is, this journey began a long time ago.
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2080 5 4
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“I don’t see how anybody could do it.”
“I could do it. I could do it because it ought to be done. When a thing needs doing, it’s best to go on and do it.”
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2080 7 5
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You worry that the mullahs suspect us, but that cannot be. We never touch in public. You weep and I shake when a neighbor knocks on the door.
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2080 0 0
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“Why have you not voted Mindeo”, Tidi squeaked. “Because there is a third way. If we stay only here, we will eventually be driven out. To attack the erect worms to extend our…
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2079 9 9
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Quite frankly you are ruining my life. / I know you don’t mean to, but you are.
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2079 7 1
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Jacob Obrecht, you are beautiful. Everything inside your head and everything you’ve ever made is beautiful and singing.
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2078 23 18
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a poem about an abduction in my NYC neighborhood
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2078 14 6
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No beeping of horns, just complete silence. No panic, just calmness. There’s this one word: serendipity.
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2078 12 5
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We left Louisville two weeks after daddy died...
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2077 6 5
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Because it seems never to be beginning, always picking up in the middle with it’s long resonant tones, which themselves begin as if they’ve always been. Maybe that’s why we love old, sacred music. And by we I, of course, mean my two-year-old Charlie and m
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2076 20 13
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A tiny story, 55 words, just enough to fit on a . . .
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2076 14 9
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(I woke once from a bad dream to throw them from the drawer, but my hands were so clammy, the coins stuck to my hand! I had to scrape them off my palm on the edge of the table.)
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