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but let's stop and take another look at things
could it be through our closed eyes
that we didn't really know what we were talking about
that there never was a surprise
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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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And by God he made it to heaven! St. Peter waved him on in...
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flash read. have fun *cheers*
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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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the observation, at the end, more/
important than the being there—
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Night fell and the photographer slept, one hand between Prue's legs.
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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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pluck me from the charred grate
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A killer enters the room. No one notices, and the show goes on.
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Words are not like bricks. The neighborhood flowers from within the rituals that enframe the drinking of a macchiato in a café. Now it hovers over the page.
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It's eerie. There are no birds. My friend and I take our morning walk in a bubble of silence.
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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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But do come close enough for me to hear.
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It’s late July, and I’ve just been given the assignment to cover Paganfoil’s ‘Warbird’ tour. To tell you the truth, I really loathe this assignment. I never, ever, EVER cared for hard rock or heavy metal or whatever they’re calling it this dec
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The trainers looked at her and smiled and they were still one creature with four legs and two heads. The old man’s left eye moved in sync with the younger one’s right eye.
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Erwin came into the kitchen through the back door and went straight to the sink to clean up. Black mud and dried blood crusted his fingertips and caked the callused whorls of his knuckles. He used the round of strong-smelling soap he kept for…
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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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I would ask for your name/if your tongue wasn’t in my mouth.
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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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For some, a vertical pattern will evoke prison bars, for others, product bar codes.
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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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My wife stood in the doorway and talked to the back of my head. “You really should talk to somebody about this,” she said.
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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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“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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I ordered biscuits and gravy
at the Sunset Grill,
Just before the Amber Alert
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Rothko explored horizons,/
blurring figure and ground/
by omitting the figure.
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