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I would ask for your name/if your tongue wasn’t in my mouth.
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It felt like I was somewhere I wasn’t supposed to be, like I’d walked into a house that looked like mine, but belonged to someone else.
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History is replete with brutally imaginative techniques of torture and execution, but I am the only death machine that doubles as a musical instrument.
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I sprinkle seaweed over the water and all twelve rise to feed. Two of them went down the hole but knew to come up. A toilet has mouths and caverns, not a bad place at all for fish.
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Rob thought he might even make it. He'd stopped off south of Seattle, in Kent, and filled up the tank and went back in the can and topped off again. He got back on the road, to all appearances blase, blase. The montages were muted, at least for…
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Jesus Freaks will go tat head... crowns of thorns for their noggins and so on. Christ had one too...
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by the time he's moves onto knives, she has appeared in next door's window: sliver of nut-pale belly, fingers wet with suds, nails painted bright as glitterballs.
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It came up heads so he is going first. He puts on a condom and gets in
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She was a forward-motion girl. She never bothered to learn to walk as a baby. Instead, she stood up and ran.
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No flinch, no stretch, no letting the cook get all golden about the chopping block.
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When I was thirteen and still lived in the desert I saw a ghost woman at the top of a dry waterfall in the foothills.
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She picked the perfect white wine that she poured in the carafe early to give it ample time to breathe before the guests arrived. She thought of everything. The first course would be Asian Carrot-Ginger soup with black sesame seeds and diced green onion
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When he woke he carried the body of a cat instead of a man. Next to him his cat dreamed it had a human body.
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“Jesus fall the second time. You want a map? Ten shekels.”
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If This Were Baltimore East A spray of change in the lilies and loose rubber, she pulled close to the wall. She smiled at the trucks, her handful of loot. Hallelujah, he said, converting. West Like 4 miles of cakes, they counted…
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I hear the car door slam. Steve, about to duck daddy-duty: Just gonna take a run to the Quickway. "Rudy," I say, "go get in the car. Tell Papo I said Wait."
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One day my wife got so mad at me she raked her fingernails down my face.
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in time there is nothing more important for meto write than this line. It isn't defined in the way you'd like perhaps, but it doesn't matter because it will be true, and you will be true, and I will be the message you get. Some signal has…
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“I don’t want to scare you,” the stewardess says, “but there are ten police officers waiting for you outside the plane.”
I reach into the diaper bag and grab an Elmo raspberry/pear cereal bar, rip it open, take a bite, sip some apple juice fr
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Elizabeth stood outside my door one afternoon. I greeted her from across the studio, put on some water to boil and walked to the door. I took her hand, held it to my cheek, and led her to my dining room table.
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I'm trying to read a Poetry in Motion poem on there wall of a crowded electric train
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I hoped I did not look as panicked as I tried not to feel.
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In the spring, my father would dress for class in a bear costume and chase students around campus.
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Every day hurts, just a little, but not enough
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All wolves, my child, want to be eaten.
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They all looked for Vic's leg after the accident.
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The three of us traveled seven hours that day and Al traveled as far in the service of finding the right tool for his writing.
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I envisioned bound feet of ancient Asian women who wore embroidered slippers that hid grotesque disfigurements.
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