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I want that one, unnoticed taste.
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4. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
> > (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
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so for penance, the priest gave me the full twelve Stations of the Cross
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I was good-looking, marketable and ambitious. And that never hurt anyone cracking it big ...
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[marbles] [blither-blather] [blarg]
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She loved me once. When we were young and the world revolved slowly in our hands. She never said as much, but she did. I knew by the way she moved, the looks, the whispers in the dead of night that carried only to my ears. We spent weeks on that beach in…
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He leans in close then, close enough that when he speaks, his words tiptoe out and tuck me in.
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MIDNIGHT all day. Bleak December. A chiaroscuro, snowing blackbirds.
(Pas de cinq mille, in B minor.)
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We are in search of free hor d’oeuvres, me and Jane – Jane from H.R., Jane who is exactly as plain as her name implies, Jane, who, for now anyway, for this company retreat, is my kindred spirit in broke-ass hangover land.
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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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The parallels have become too numerous, and too striking, to ignore.
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They wink at me as if to share/
a cosmic joke whose punch line’s still/
a couple dozen light years out
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Little rambling soul,/kind guest, friend: leave me laughing,/pallid stiff, and bare.
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I was Orson Welles skulking in the shadows and you Alida Valli;
our time measured like footsteps advancing on Gethsemane.
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Whatever you have,/
we can monetize it
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so much of what we know with certainty is amazingly uncertain
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"It was John-Darren who once told me that he felt sorry for women."
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She sometimes ate her dinner standing up, in front of her living room window.
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In my life when I am pursued /
by some wildly delicate thing
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It's been twenty years since you left. I should call it a day.Even the Obeah woman said as much. But I don't listen. Instead I sit with old and proper ethnic widows in black, waiting for your return. One of them translates my story for the…
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Everyday the buildings seem to be getting taller and taller.
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Quite out of nowhere, my grandfather appeared to me, smoking his pipe and sipping his gentian liqueur. With myself drawing an edelweiss, sitting beside him, my hands and my heart warming themselves at the stove, my feet in large lamb fur-lined boots. Born in the mountain,…
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Oh it's another one of those strange thrill rides slowly building from a buzz saw whisperinto cool morning's consciousness, coming on and crawling through the moon's mattress like a silver stream and under the dented pillow where…
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The world has long since been bootlegged by madmen. The new invisible con men are the same as the old visible con men, hiding and lying behind their walls of lingering death. There's a weapon wielding demon hell bent on an insane vengeance crawling around…
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If you want to be a writer, just write stuff.
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The man went into his backpack and pulled out his book of crossword puzzles. The deluxe edition with fifty percent more puzzles for free. It had been an impulse buy from the bookstore, cost him four…
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