1913 4 1
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I would ask for your name/if your tongue wasn’t in my mouth.
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1913 3 4
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I’m going to stop there, before the darkness sets in.
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1913 6 3
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For some, a vertical pattern will evoke prison bars, for others, product bar codes.
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1913 9 6
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All of those lovelies, pitched on the ground, ignored and ready to rot.
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1912 3 1
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“Can't you tell when I get lonely?”, she asks. “No”, I say. It gets awkward because she wants me to know when she gets lonely. I don't give her the attention she wants without realizing it. She moves away and stares at me for…
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1912 9 2
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You never thought you were capable of rape.
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1912 24 7
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I watched as the light fled
from your eyes,
No slowly dimming lamp,
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1912 4 3
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I wriggled in the bed and felt the sheets soaked with perspiration. My arms were lined with tape and tubing, needles pressed in veins. I reached for the cloth again and again, and every time they stopped me. The hands that came were cold and hard, urgent
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1912 21 8
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I am standing in my neighbor’s back yard in my underwear, and my trash can is clean.
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1912 2 2
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And by God he made it to heaven! St. Peter waved him on in...
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1912 1 0
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Morpheus dreams… […fairground atmosphere burlesque hand-operated steam organs calliopes cut and spliced reversed harmonium kaleidoscopic grotesque waltzing carousel…] PABLO FANQUE'S CIRCUS ROYAL Grandest Night of the Season! and positively the LAST NIGHT BUT THREE! being…
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1911 8 6
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On top of the refrigerator is a small wooden box
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1911 2 1
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A killer enters the room. No one notices, and the show goes on.
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1911 17 11
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She drew her hands out of the chest cavity and looked at the clock.
‘Time of death,’ she said.
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1911 15 6
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with images overflowing with delicate thought scenes with nightmarish wet dreams
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1911 2 1
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...I told Uncle Lou I thought it (trans-gendering) looked like a thoughtful way of occupying the world. It was a personal triumph, for some individuals, over the destructive affects of denial. Besides, it hurt no one, and it didn’t destroy property. I alw
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1910 2 1
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Six weeks, four thousand dollars, and twelve hundred miles later, I figured I was done with the cleansing process.
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1910 9 3
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Mesmerizing, the night’s queer colors, the darkness given depth by the earth’s crystalline sheen, by a sky choked with a million fleeting prisms. In the woods surrounding the house another branch snapped, a gunshot loud crack. The echo lingered, cap
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1910 1 1
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Jonas Griffin stared out the bay window as he drank his morning cup, his eyes gleaming with something between wistfulness and disdain at Reynold who sat patiently in the adjacent yard, leaning against the majestic oak tree that towered in its hundred year
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1910 13 15
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We wonder if this is how we tangled in our mother's womb: hands to feet to heart.
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1910 14 14
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That was before Cohen died. Castro died. Castro Died should be a title by Samuel Beckett. Once I nearly went out to buy a bass clarinet just for the purpose of playing along with Leonard Cohen.
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1910 26 18
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Rothko explored horizons,/
blurring figure and ground/
by omitting the figure.
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1910 9 7
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the observation, at the end, more/
important than the being there—
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1909 1 0
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It's dawn. It's quiet on the pond in the Public Garden. The light is calm, the pollution is mild, and everything is still,except for the occasional cruising taxi. It's the beginning of spring-- tulips out, leaves…
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1909 2 1
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One sunny day after Christmas Eldon went ice fishing with Grandma and Grandpa at Haymarsh. He was not fishing for Ice Fish but for regular fish who swam under the ice. Craig was there too. Craig was wearing more pairs of socks than anyone. He was wearing 3…
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1909 0 1
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meanings figure into traffic streams reds fade, trickle down the long ‘V' another passing human ear; tall, tall buildings paper poised on horizon. situations gape in and out of seconds corners turn to disappearance, witness follows fingers…
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1909 7 6
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His toenails were so long they curled under and into the black leathery pads of his feet. They lightly clacked on our linoleum, tap shoes made of thick petrified roots. He didn't seem to mind.
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1909 11 6
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1909 18 5
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1909 14 12
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“I want to show you something pretty.”
She looked at me, chin on her chest, watery brown eyes looking up. Skin tags on her eyelids made it difficult for her to look as coquettish as she wanted. She tried to flutter what was left of her eyelashes, but syr
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