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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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223841
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His body echoed in the mirror/
cracked into distant images
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22371512
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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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when unicorns took to flight / the poles shifted / the world flooded / and Pangaea busted open like calloused palm
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223711
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to say that he was
doing fine
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. . . and the last thing you’ll smell will be new-cut pine.
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The City Council supports this policy and, by necessity, ranks human slavery very low on the list of the city’s woes.
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223610
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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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223611
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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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22362117
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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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You may gather from me
the spring of my youth
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the mighty mountains sighed, and the wide seas heaved
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223511
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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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“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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“The price of everything's gone up,” I say. “But I don't have to buy you chocolate if it's costing too much.” She says nothing and bends her head again, gnarled hands slowly breaking a family-sized chocolate block into pieces.
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223512
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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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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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I slide my hand under the sheets. It’s cool there. An impression. This is where she would be.
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A supermodel, carrying a large Valentine’s box, fell on the ice.
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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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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 have been my woman’s lover now for
seven years, ever since your two souls met
at La Isla Negra.
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And you know that notion just goes to show...
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But I came back around, after Robert Kennedy got shot, with one hand up your skirt and the other on the gear shift...
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22321710
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He kissed her tits and thought of art
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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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I lock the last of the beer and wine doors and head back to the cash register. Our clocks are not on bar time so I only have a few minutes. I check the till. A stack of ones and three fives. Enough to break a twenty, but looking bare. The parking lot's empty. The air…
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