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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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215365
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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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215263
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I slide my hand under the sheets. It’s cool there. An impression. This is where she would be.
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21521512
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This is the best kind of crime scene.
Spattered like gore from gunshots,
I'm left covered in trace evidence.
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215297
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when unicorns took to flight / the poles shifted / the world flooded / and Pangaea busted open like calloused palm
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215221
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Harry Reed does not want to die in this room, in front of Giselle, who has been his wife for exactly six months, who has slept beside him for twelve months.
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215100
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Kyo held her hand gently and stared at the bracelet as Brie explained everything that happened. It was painful to hear.
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215110
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I sighed and looked deep into his eyes. “There is nothing more powerful than denial.”
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2151208
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A supermodel, carrying a large Valentine’s box, fell on the ice.
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215040
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He had what was commonly referred to in junior high as the ‘bullshit mustache’.
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215060
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Maybelline Jones is my sister, my friend, and I try to tell her the right way to be.
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215066
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He didn’t used to smell that way, like a rained-on boot, like the insides of a lived-on couch. ... He used to smell like he wore light, subcutaneous cologne.
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215064
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burning for You, caught in between, yearning to remain completely wrapped around Your finger, feeling panoramic, and this alive.
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214983
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Was I a dreamer? Was I asking for too much?
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214953
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For the woman with no arms, life is a constant dexterity demonstration
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2149910
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I get out of the pitstop at the reststop, wade through parking lot hiphop. Hummers with Jesus Luvs George W bumper stickers, and a subdued slow hurricane of dour obese women in powder blue and tepid brown walking about the place like zombies. And I see t
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2149108
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The girl put her elbows on the table and rested her chin in cupped hands and this was for comfort but she appeared symmetrical the way an etheric visitor might and the brightness was just then trying to find a way through an opening in morning dining room…
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21482117
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There is a tall and leafy tree in our backyard. Also a bride, a groom, and a chicken.
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21481915
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"You're publishing too much too / quickly. We think that's unhealthy. We want you / to slow down. You're becoming a fame whore."
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2147128
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The juice that stays on my neck when you tip me back, catching me in an alleyway, holding me upright as the oranges tumble and strike the backs of my knees. You cup your strong-smelling, sticky-soft fingers around my ear and say let's blow this city.
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214771
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It was a sloppy little factory town that could be beautiful, but never bothered trying. Sits on a big lake. More bars than churches, and too many of both. Racist. We hated anybody who didn’t believe in white Jesus
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2147175
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I turn my head. Time starts running.
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21461410
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. . . and the last thing you’ll smell will be new-cut pine.
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214694
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You have been my woman’s lover now for
seven years, ever since your two souls met
at La Isla Negra.
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21461310
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And here you are. Before your time. Behind the glass.
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214600
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Trunks of plane trees with parchment bark, their shaggy pillars bear a canopy of green like a great tent spread over the square of the park. Cool misting lawn sprinklers, their umbral spay--brick walks glisten in the mottled light. Fading blooms of rhodo
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21461613
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The Bond Trader begins his morning with coffee and a hit of LSD.
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2145118
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You’re the girl that would sneak out to poetry readings instead of parties, watching fierce semi-bearded men reading their poems from hand-stapled zines.
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214521
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Lee found a ship’s figurehead in a dumpster behind some shitty Indian restaurant last night.
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2145125
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We left Louisville two weeks after daddy died...
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