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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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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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. . . and the last thing you’ll smell will be new-cut pine.
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the mighty mountains sighed, and the wide seas heaved
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"Isn't it time to remove the nails, and put Jesus to rest once and for all," Mary asks.
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One of the pieces, I noticed, had the real shape of a miniature chicken, its mohawk, pin legs, and small definition of wing. “Look at that,” I said to my friend. And just then, the wing twitched.
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A supermodel, carrying a large Valentine’s box, fell on the ice.
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I was afraid of needles and ponds of water and I was transfixed by both.
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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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His body echoed in the mirror/
cracked into distant images
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He kissed her tits and thought of art
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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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At some point, we will have to shoot them/
through the eyes and skull and heart
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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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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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She...learned the ways of men, especially foreign men, who eyed her mother even as they passed around pictures of their children, wallet-bound photographs that included their reluctantly smiling wives.
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I turn my head. Time starts running.
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All week my crew and I waited for the snuff party. An obscure fete where someone gets killed strictly for the entertainment and viewing pleasure of others. Before you judge us know this, people die every day for no reason at all.
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That sound. Bone against bone. Skin across skin. Blood fraying into the unknown dark. He loved that sound.
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Tuesdays she worked afternoons at the bookstore, and he’d secretly go, buy a large order, sit in a corner with a newspaper. Fries covered in vinegar, veins of ketchup.
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And here I am again.
I chew my nails. I tap my foot. I chew my nails. I sweat. I bleed. My nose bleeds. It drips. I drip. I'm dripping through my chair.
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The knife that precedes the bigger knife that precedes the spoon that precedes the flat fork, with stuff like that I'm all butterfingers, & even though he's never been to Italy except once to shoot a gun when the world was a great big jumble, he remembers all…
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You are fishing in a coffee cup. (Your fishing pole is a record player.)
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This part of her digital garden is not impressive, slightly sloppy, even haphazard. However, her avatar is an attractive woman with good make-up.
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You may gather from me
the spring of my youth
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In Nebraska, we found a dead man lying between the furrows of a field. He’d been there awhile in the heat and the sun, the only shade provided by a cloud of flies. The dead man lay on the ground, decaying, disappearing into the dirt:
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if we stare into the dark long
enough, we see ourselves at some end or
beginning –
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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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