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until the last wisps started their heartless descent admitted by default to this curious flock a sorority I never wanted to join the red poison drips relentless

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the only thing that impresses me now is the state of my inebriation

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stepped away from meafter leaning on melike I was a wallmy face felt stiffyour fingers stoppedyour body was coldthrough my clothesI touched your buttons

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So Green

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I Was in Hell, Carmella...

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A glance—I dissolved completely.

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The fruit goes bad if you don't eat it in time. It has its time to complement you with itself. When it does, when all's right, you become the fruit and the fruit becomes you. A real world reminder of how seeds work. When you are the fruit, you may…

The Sound of One Story Clapping

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And aren't we are so then so rarely The hero in another's story When we want to be. And why are we so always Rounding stories on the heroes Who don't want to be? And aren't we are so then are so rarely Heroes in each others' …

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Other therapists had their own names for it: death by mishap, inadvertent fatal impact, unintended loss of life. These were all very polite ways of describing what happens when one person, mistakenly and without malice, kills another.

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