1606 7 7
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Tsunamis are quiet at first:
not one big wave but many
small injustices, so chaotic
all the pressing all the weight
of the noise, like a stone
holding you under.
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160698
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I'm afraid to find out what my spirit animal is
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16061512
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Leonard didn't know that cute girl well, hardly at all, but he really wanted to. She was his first real crush in Junior High. He got his chance and talked to her some one day while they were walking down the hall between classes. She actually spoke to him first. The bell…
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1606247
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I watched as the light fled
from your eyes,
No slowly dimming lamp,
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160695
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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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16063012
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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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160573
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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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1605106
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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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16052215
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The river’s not/
a river but/
a FEMA map/
of flooding probabilities.
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16051311
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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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1605125
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I wanted to watch, for as long as I could, until my innocence, like balloons, disappeared from view.
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1605103
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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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1605128
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On the usefulness of hands.
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1605105
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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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160494
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Where I grew up, you did not venture casually into ocean waters.
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160464
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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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160462
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He sits on a folded-over cardboard box, slightly off-balance and without any visible sign of support other than the granite wall of the bank behind him and the few coins in the paper cup he shakes at each passerby.
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160400
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Staring at her horribly disfigured face, I envied her.
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160442
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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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1603129
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in which creative destruction holds the heads of entire populations beneath the surface of the water in bathtubs until the bubbles stop
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160386
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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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160343
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The following was written under disagreeable circumstances, in that I was present for them.
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16031812
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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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1603127
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160321
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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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160395
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I guess it’s extremely difficult to be a decent human being in all aspects of your life.
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1603126
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“Jesus fall the second time. You want a map? Ten shekels.”
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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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The taste of / what is denied us is always sweet
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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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