1611 9 11
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I answered with my usual economy of words. If someone wants more, they must ask, and he did.
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16113914
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Where seldom is heard
an encouraging word
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16111311
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Know what you’ll become? You’ll become one of those guys who masturbates in any single occupancy restroom that locks.
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161156
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Being a grandparent is most joyous when deliberately subversive.
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1611105
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In my choppings, I come across a tiny carrot amidst the baby carrots. The runt if you will.
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161086
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When the boy held the rifle’s sights on a living creature, his breath stilled and his heartbeat swimming in his ears, his father seemed close.
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161095
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So, I rough her up with sand paper, and hit her with chains, making dents. She examines her surfaces, tidily and efficiently, indicating the spots most in need of filling in with scratches and scrapes.
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161021
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Mary ran her cake business in a way she could never have run her marriage. It was by appointment only, full deposit, partial refund (and this purely at her own discretion). Business was terrific and she had to turn down job after job. She only made…
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161066
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The book mind, just like its namesake the book, is capable of movement only after its assembly: otherwise, it boasts no moving parts.
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1610128
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On the usefulness of hands.
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160973
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Maybe she thinks in Czech, dreams in German, pretends in English. Babylon is a beautiful place after all.
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160998
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I'm afraid to find out what my spirit animal is
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160964
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We lived in a white and mint green trailer in the woods. I was 23. The hanging of the clothes on the line made me feel kind of famous in the eyes of nature
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16092215
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The river’s not/
a river but/
a FEMA map/
of flooding probabilities.
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160943
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The following was written under disagreeable circumstances, in that I was present for them.
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16093012
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What scares her about libraries are unshelved books, the ones you thumb through while you are waiting for the elevator, because you realize that there are too many books in the world and you are holding that particular book only because it is lost.
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160921
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At the TV station across the street two sports team mascots are dancing and miming for the cameras. There are some young men wearing baseball caps at the viewing window simulating sex acts for the cameras.
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160942
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I had the hair of a metal god, cracking it against the air whenever the stereo belched fists.
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160912
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Crea grew up above a pet store and now she dreams of cats. There are too many of them to name, a slinking mess of calico, tabby, tortoise-shell, black and white. There are more each night. They whisper to her, words made of hissing mewls. During the…
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1608106
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I'm rushing from the office, wanting to catch the 6.05, skittering down grey, commuter-laden streets, and I turn into the plaza and see the stupid fucking dancing couple. They are usually only there Fridays and weekends, catching the tourists on their way into Covent…
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16081511
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Here they come, those witnesses.
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1608126
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“Jesus fall the second time. You want a map? Ten shekels.”
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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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1608148
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To stop the world from explodingLike Krypton. It has to be.Like purple flowers we're there on Burnt battlefields. It raises its flag, Too, and continues the march towardThe dreaming sun in spite ofAll the smoke and ash thisWorld has to offer. Our…
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16071112
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Papa says an adding machine tape has gotten tangled up around his legs. He pulls it off his leg, but it's really his catheter tube, so he wets the bed. I tell him he's not in a tree, and I clean it up. He tells me all about it for an hour, and I to bed.…
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160744
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Blueberries are like testicles: you have to hold them gently, from underneath.
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160700
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Vito sat alone on a bench, hunched over, staring at his running shoes. He wasn't having fun. The club wasn't nearly as crowded as usual. There were no outlandishly-dressed or made-up people present. Most in attendance were huddled directly before the band
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160733
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In the spring, my father would dress for class in a bear costume and chase students around campus.
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There's a man sitting in my room holding a jar of my ashes. That's what he claims.
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