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Everyman: I quit, remember? I’m in a twelve step program now.
Alcohol: Oh sweetie, that’s too bad, we had some great times together.
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"Then why? Why?" she choked. "Why are you so... so mean to me?"
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when the sun goes down alone
vice is forgotten in the night wind
your lover's voice
on the phone
held fast in the balance
of gravity and momentum
overcoming inanimate objects
and the unknown
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In this lab, where I work 40 hours a week,
live the ghosts of questions asked.
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It chases other newborns down and eats them.
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‘Hmph! Dream indeed! “Past the wit of man to say what dream it was” - the man's a knotty-pated arse.' The old master-weaver spat into the fire, his rheumy eyes bright with contempt, then looked round furtively; Nathaniel was not yet returned,…
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, that smiley lush would shake rattle and quiver the day long no matter the temperature.
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“I want you to face the toys!”
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~our silly cosmology of visceral pleasure~
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"It all began with a painting," I said. "Mostly blue. Acrylic. Naturalistic in a modern sense. She was stylized but recognizable, and her breasts were exposed. Everyone could see her disordered skirt. The painter was a fan of Herrick.
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We gave our cigarettes names.
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“This is what we'll do. We'll bury him so his body will never be found. How? That's the question.” Bob made another short, narrow lap around the trailer's living room slash kitchenette while unwrapping his sixth stick of Big Red gum and jamming it into his mouth…
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Most everything is white because white means clean and hospitals are supposed to be clean. They wouldn’t let me leave.
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Michael shifted impatiently as his mom steadied the gyrocycle above the parking space. A rather blank, empty smile came over her face, and Michael understood. The Proctors were everywhere and where they weren’t, there was always a Neighbor who would be h
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"Sorry, I need to confirm the results." Sal turned to Paul. "Is it true that you got stood up?"
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I can’t move - I try to move my arms - I try to move my legs - If I can scream then that will wake me up - I scream
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in making your sad blown apart hearts rise up and squeeze out the kindness juices ever so sweetly anymore. Tried that. Didn't work out too well, not for me, wasn't a BIG time of waste, but did eat up some important wee…
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The windows aren't open because they are closed for winter, but Cha doesn't care. She stares through them while I stare at her.
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I really need to go to the bathroom.
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Saul Lies, 33 and uneager to lift his head off of the hair grease stained pillowcase that absorbed his mental anguish most nights, stayed in bed past noon
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The irony is that Smart's work of self-abnegation has surpassed that of her erotic master; George Barker is largely forgotten now, while the reputation of Smart's one work of genius seems secure.
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The months leading up to that night were unbearable. It was as if a debt loomed over us begging to be paid. We both knew I would find you dangling at the end of a rope, it was only a matter of when.
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While serving in government, she plotted to change it.
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The church pews were straining at the crowds who had come to see David get saved. There was no salvation in the water really, but the Baptists preached the gospel of immersion. There was a certain Baptist church in Kentucky that pressured a man who'd been sprinkled to get…
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When the phone rings that late at night, it’s not good.
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My dad was in a barber training school
where they cut off the tip of a bum's ear
and taped it back on with scotch tape
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He gets her voicemail.
Maureen calls back.
“Where are you, Tom? I hear cars.”
Where is he? Here he is. Cars, yes, and sidewalk, stores, faces topping bodies. Night again. A bad place. He sees a park – an empty set of swings and troughs of
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Believe me, I would run if I could, but there seems to be a low haze of molasses clinging to my ankles.
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