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a question that (never) left
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222083
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Was I a dreamer? Was I asking for too much?
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22202111
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" trout hovered in a sun-dappled pool"
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22201915
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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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222064
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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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221920
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I was afraid of needles and ponds of water and I was transfixed by both.
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221800
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“Stay there Alysia!” Brie said from behind as she ran toward them. The Sentinel used Alysia’s back as a step and launched herself into the air with Legacy over her head.
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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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Fred, who by that point had already wanted to call Jimmy "Jim," talked a river. Jimmy, who had already called her Freddy, took a mojo bag from his back pants pocket and asked her to write something that he could put inside.
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It was a subtle change. Jeffrey's grandmother was never graceful. Her figure was like a garbage bag filled with rounded masses of leaves and the unexpected angle of the odd stick, the entire shambling affair draped in soiled and yellowed hand-knit clothing…
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. . . and the last thing you’ll smell will be new-cut pine.
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“I take him to see all those sexy movies,” she said, “because it puts the passion back in him. I love what he does to me when we get back home after those movies.”
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"You know, there really is a death of the heart."
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He had what was commonly referred to in junior high as the ‘bullshit mustache’.
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We walk in silence. We water our plants. We don’t eat as well as we should. We try to love. We try to forget.
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221611
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Let's be honest. Ugly people have an uphill battle in this culture. From the time they slide out of their ugly mothers they stand at the plate with two strikes.
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His body echoed in the mirror/
cracked into distant images
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Flexeril and Hydrocodon... For my back
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221543
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The abandoned body got up and left the room. It was just in time to greet his wife and daughter, who were just coming in the front door.
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“They’re Rocky Mountain Oysters,” the blond said. “Fresh. You’ll absolutely love them Jim.”
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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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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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221585
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You may gather from me
the spring of my youth
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2215219
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to say that he was
doing fine
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2215175
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I turn my head. Time starts running.
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221467
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The doorbell rang while Ron was masturbating.He closed his eyes tight. Tried to hold the image of Lori bent over the arm of the couch. No use. It was gone. Ron sighed, then levered the recliner down. Tied on the terry-cloth robe Lori had given him. He kicked aside an empty…
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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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when unicorns took to flight / the poles shifted / the world flooded / and Pangaea busted open like calloused palm
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It is pain taking a form, Plato’s dream, born from your hands father that rejected me, giving me the color of abandonment, eyes dulled by isolation, a body deceased without life-giving touch.
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