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. . . and the last thing you’ll smell will be new-cut pine.
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He didn’t know how to tell his story. It wasn’t an easy story to tell. There certainly was a clear beginning, but it didn’t make much sense to start at the beginning. There was no way to end the story either; the ending seemed to last forever.
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In all my marriage stories, I am both victim and hero.
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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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There is a tall and leafy tree in our backyard. Also a bride, a groom, and a chicken.
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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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You may gather from me
the spring of my youth
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2233 20 8
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A supermodel, carrying a large Valentine’s box, fell on the ice.
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2233 15 12
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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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2233 1 1
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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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to say that he was
doing fine
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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 turn my head. Time starts running.
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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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That sound. Bone against bone. Skin across skin. Blood fraying into the unknown dark. He loved that sound.
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the mighty mountains sighed, and the wide seas heaved
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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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2230 6 3
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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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2230 7 4
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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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2230 1 1
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2230 6 3
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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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2229 1 1
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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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2229 1 0
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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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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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2228 9 4
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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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He kissed her tits and thought of art
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And you know that notion just goes to show...
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All night the moon had watched him, and he’d been unable to return its stare. Finally there was sunlight, and Joško took up his rifle and rucksack. He had trouble keeping his balance at first, but gradually his legs steadied.
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Male genitals were usually portrayed diminutively in classical art. After forty minutes in a drafty room without cloths on, I was beginning to understand why.
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