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At night, on these New England roads, there is no light, no pink sodium-vapor glow, no guideposts.
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It’ll die in there and the stairwell’ll stink for weeks, Greg says in the car. We’re quiet, considering that.
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I had felt suddenly lighter and next thing I knew I was watching Leonard Tucker and Sister William from somewhere near the ceiling. I saw myself, too, at my desk, holding my songbook out in front of me like everyone else.
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“They picked me up in their spaceship about noon,” Austin Grantham says to me while pulling up an apple crate to use as a stool.
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Did we get Jihadi John?/
And the highway to Mosul?//
What’s the score?
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When I squint at her from across the table I can see the waveforms created by her carrier signal.
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Okay, no freaking out. I mean, this isn't a suicide note. This is suicide fiction.
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I know now, how she moves without verbs
after you crushed her into the river.
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Everyone runs to the plane but me. I get the last seat (middle of 5), crush men’s bags on my way. I’m white & female. They glare.
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once wedding cake
under pillows.
now fluffy frosting
on squashed defeat
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Years After she can go home.
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Borges must be so proud somewhere
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It was only when blood began to drip onto the page that he realized he'd been hit.
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Often we sit in silence and age. We are observers of dust, fashioning ourselves into antiques.
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over tea & saltineshe read melike an obituary
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He was the kind of man that I would rather have declawed than date, and then leave him on a gurney, helpless and anaesthetized. Cliff Eames had made me feel that way since we were teenagers. He would never be helpless. …
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True love may last forever, but the most I've ever gotten out of a lab assistant is two years, five months, three weeks, twelve days, and fifteen hours. And he was the exception.
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Mama hung them everywhere. It started with just a few, in our apartment and outside on the brick. She made walls into windows.
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She was a beautiful woman. I don't argue with that. I welcome it.
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I hope you'll have the time to read this before your attention wanders.
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I talk wands and magic and how women aren't supposed to care,
but I do, and she talks length and girth.
Her fiancé has neither,
she makes an illustration with her pinky
and says that if they don't marry within the year,
she's dumping his ass
and we
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All of those lovelies, pitched on the ground, ignored and ready to rot.
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pluck me from the charred grate
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I found my black dot nucleus. School got me in the 10th year with the numbers spilling outta my head, but now I got the cell on my mind. Everybody's floating around this joint all pink and green college clean, yellow face Japanese, or the jet-headed Greeks with their…
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On the table the image is by Chardin but the puzzle is by someone else and that is what he has dumped out of the box.
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For some, a vertical pattern will evoke prison bars, for others, product bar codes.
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He wasn’t there for the beginning or the end. In the beginning, he was still a wild thing. Nothing more than a voice in the chorus of the Dark Continent, back when it was a thing of terrible beauty and attracted people like the old man; people who breathe
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He kind of enjoyed living by himself. It was nice and peaceful.
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Richard bounds up the stairs to his apartment. He can’t wait to get home to his new kitty. He found the poor cat right outside of his building just a few days ago, and already they’ve become fast friends.
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I need a different storage solution
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