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pluck me from the charred grate
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He moved his rotten breath closer to my mouth, like he wanted to twirl his tongue around just to see how it felt.
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'This dude’s whole life must be in this book. It’s like, a man diary.' The thought makes her laugh.
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The sun browbeat me relentlessly, like a one-eyed judge with an unforgiving heart.
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She was a forward-motion girl. She never bothered to learn to walk as a baby. Instead, she stood up and ran.
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No snippet to see, here. The piece is so short a snippet would be the whole thing.
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Let’s talk about Chattanooga, the cloud / mountains, the monastery bench, drunk / at sunset
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I am one one millionth of a ratings point. A little flash of electronic blue against the wall of an otherwise unlit upstairs room at night. Walk by on the sidewalk feeling lonely, then see that harsh spark of indigo spring from the dark window above and
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Already, I can see that, whenever Harold moves, some of his soul escapes, like an accidental exhalation, like breath on powder.
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the Great Way itself is very smooth and straight,/but folks take to the challenge of rough, wild roads.
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I'm sure someone somewhere must havefelt something like it before. Imean I've never been able tohave this kind of deep longing asif you might want to forget everythingyou know. I always figured that funny stuff onlyhappened to folks in a foreignfilm. Not to some guy…
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At five o’clock in the afternoon, at five o’clock / in the afternoon
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He told me he could feel an army of tears building up behind his eyes.
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They say ehmand for almond in the San Joaquin Valley.
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I folded my problems into pretty paper animals to keep me company. I set them on the Formica dinette set. I jammed some into cracks so they’d stand up straight: organized warfare
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On a corkboard in the entryway of the Leetonia Shurfine Market a curling handwritten sign said Room for Rent. Kitchen Living Room Laundry Privlages. $65 Weekly.
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Julius winced, knowing there was no way out. Amy showed him every worm, every insect, every dead mouse she’d found when they were in the fields. She pulled him forward, making his bruised shoulder burn.
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Hold your breathThe smoke here is thick, I knowIce underfoot, let it burn, let it go, but don't ask me to take your handYou have never been so patient as to sit and waiteven for the sun to riseWatch, now, here it comescresting over the hill as one large eyeboiling the…
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I peeled off a hundred. For the screwdriver, I said. The kid shook his head, made a pushing-away gesture. You need it worse’n I do right now, he said.
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Days went by as I stood in the woods waiting for a tree to fall, and when none did, I determined the universe is cold and indifferent and that man’s only hope is to buy wood chippers.
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“Can I?” Lily asked.
I gave her a nod. She tore at the package with greedy fingers. As the paper fell away to reveal yet another self-help volume, Lily cocked her head in a gesture of confusion and curiosity. Following her gaze to the lipstick-red
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At some point, we will have to shoot them/
through the eyes and skull and heart
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My wife tells me I should marry Pam. “She would be good for you,” she says.
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“You wanna fight.”
And I say yes.
And he says –
“First, we gotta make out.”
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If This Were Baltimore East A spray of change in the lilies and loose rubber, she pulled close to the wall. She smiled at the trucks, her handful of loot. Hallelujah, he said, converting. West Like 4 miles of cakes, they counted…
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We left Louisville two weeks after daddy died...
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We sat in a row on the long couch and no one's legs could reach the floor. Granddaddy took the first one the kid who no one knew and said to us "the rest of you stay put."
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Enter Tipitina’s – the rotation hole
where electric, shoeless uncles
allocate their copper goulashes
to catch white dripwater.
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