1905 2 0
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She spilled her neurons across the dissecting board of the violin, breathed deep and forced herself outward with every exhalation. Her molecules mixed with wax and horsehair, and her heart valves arched in unison.
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1905 11 4
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Everything is illuminated. If anyone is watching, we look happy.
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1905 11 7
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He was her summer fling, the first cock to crow when the sun rose over her tequila smile.
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1905 8 8
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The moon begins to rise over L.A.
while the roaches try to crawl up
the sides of the mountains surrounding the L.A. Basin.
While fires rage in the forests of the night,
here comes the moon over the horizon,
big and haunted, pock-marked and coo
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1904 9 9
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I'm not interested in her that way.
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1904 5 4
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The tall, standing woman with bright red lipstick, elegant at one time, you could tell, responding, “She has dementia,” pointing at her brain. “She was a Holocaust survivor.”
And the one they’re talking about turns as she’s pushing her wal
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1904 9 9
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I don't think dogs like to die with the pack.
The smell of them rotting brings trouble in the wild,
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1904 13 14
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I don't know if we'll meet again in the sea of light. Circumstances aren't only up to human beings. After all maybe it's all drunk circumstance, but that doesn't answer the blinding question, it only poses some more. This is…
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1903 12 3
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I read the ending to her and it was clear to her--clear as it could only be to a woman, to a woman you're in love with--that I had been describing her.
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1903 9 11
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The understanding we made was neatly wrapped up in its own blue tissue cocoon like a neatly rolled joint and dumped unceremoniously into the forgotten past like a plate of leftover digitized lies. The lid was slammed shut. Time passes too tightly. And you …
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[testing ... one, two, three ... testing ... is this thing on? ... ok, here goes:]
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Birds FlySeven Poemsby Darryl Pricefor Charlotte and Mel, as always"We should insist on joy in spite of everything."--Tom Robbins“I don't need your love. I don't need you to understand. I just need you to listen.”—Perfume Genius1. I Want to Sing to…
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SO ABOUT TEN minutes later Heidi arrived at the house with her boyfriend in tow, looking as if she had stepped out of an MTV music video, her black leather jacket loaded with sequins and silver studs, her blonde hair now colored green, all frizzy and unke
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1903 2 1
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flash read. have fun *cheers*
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1903 6 6
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Everyday the buildings seem to be getting taller and taller.
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1903 17 14
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When you move to the music of a woman
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1903 4 4
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If Single Stroke Seven were a cocktail, it would be a Bloody Mary made of one part Worcestershire sauce, the other part gas station vodka, and ketchup and hot sauce packets swiped from fast food joints. Chill with ice crystals chiseled off freezer walls,
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1902 10 5
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"She has a lot of time to think these days. What else is a woman to do with the rest of her life?"
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1902 8 4
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It calmed the guilt in my heart while kids reveled, laughed, and "made time" with the neighborhood girls on that final night of freedom.
No one would talk to those girls again.
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1901 8 0
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What can I say about my brother, Stroman. We are twins and we hate each other. He is an honest, brave man with scruples. He is full of bullshit. He thinks I am morally twisted. He probably has a point there, but I don’t see what that has got to do with
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This is not a story you expect to end at Cape Horn.
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1901 6 1
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At dinner in Marrakech, Namid danced on the table, waving a white napkin, propelled by jetlag and poor judgment.
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1901 9 6
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All of those lovelies, pitched on the ground, ignored and ready to rot.
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1901 4 0
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Let whoever may read this know: I am an evil man, and I have done evil things.
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1901 0 0
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He said he'd searched in vain for his wife, Mary, before abandoning hope and the ship in one of the last row boats. He was allowed in because of his experience fishing.
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1900 24 7
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I watched as the light fled
from your eyes,
No slowly dimming lamp,
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1900 5 2
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John Lipkin took a drag off his cigarette and rummaged through his desk drawer looking for pot. There wasn't any. He remembered looking last night, but he looked again now. There wasn't a damn thing, just some stems…
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1900 7 2
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A lowing cow cracked open the darkened room like the yawn of a gravid alien.
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see this:/ ink-stained paper/ littering miles
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