2233 33 18
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Chelsea's breasts are more the size of tangerines, but he likes them. He likes that she smells like Fruit Loops and that her front teeth overlap slightly. Her mouth is glossed. He slips his tongue inside.
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... I know all about ax murderers because Elmo, my uncle by marriage to my sister who never had any sense was one. He done killed six women in a farm outside of Topeka in the space of they say three minutes, including my sister and her bingo friends . . .
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After not going out for weeks, I went to a bar and met an electrical engineer, a motorcycle racer who raced in the Black Hills, a Renaissance man, in a relationship with a young married woman, and I told him about the toad.
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2330 26 18
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I am complicit in the darkness
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3468 27 13
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Co-written with Bobbie Ann Mason
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2378 22 17
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I stare, out a dirty window, / into the sanitary blackness.
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3696 26 19
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For my father, my best buddy.
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3149 16 18
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Every year people came from as far away as Des Moines and Halifax for Elephant Day. They came to see the elephants.
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2668 20 19
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A portrait of my sweetheart drawn while she is asleep: a passed-out angel illuminated by the light of dawn coming in from the bathroom window, one of her shoes missing.
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3000 16 21
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“I found out the most amazing thing,” Mike said. “I used to be like everyone else. But I sent away for a DNA test where they trace your ancestry.”
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1225 14 7
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The fuckers tumble out of the bathroom like clowns from a tiny car. The girl has these huge tits and dark red hair. She rushes past me, smelling like chocolate. A guy's behind her, holding onto the back of her jeans. He's not good looking enough to…
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4774 14 12
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...the job was easy, just pour and deliver, pour and deliver.
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1148 29 18
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It was in the last expulsion/explosion (theories differ) that we became OneWith. Tsunami. Seism. Zud. All matter cast out outcast came back like a gangster on crack. What did it think it was? Who do we think we are? It thinks we think it thinks…
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2646 23 17
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I watch my mother
No longer beautiful or charming
Her left arm shaking
Her mind a gone thing no longer doing her wrong
Wandering away from me in the mall
To kiss the hands of strangers...
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368 27 18
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Sleep shall take you where plutonium
Stars the drinking pools with light.
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1784 27 19
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2106 27 19
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“There’s an ill energy that emanates
from your precise heart that I find attractive”
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2447 21 16
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A favorite place doesn't always offer comfort.
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1943 20 18
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7430 21 14
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Nostradamus died of gout on a Friday evening. He would be the first person in history to die of complications relating to gout. Spiked rods of crystallized uric acid pushed their way through his synovial fluid just as he composed a quatrain about the end
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2672 33 17
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Fabio has a soul of passion. A beautiful soul of passion. His passionate soul was so beautiful the ancient stars shone upon him and made him look like ghosts at night.
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1890 23 19
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Mack’s mind held a chandelier.
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1708 21 19
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The younger woman asked Scott if he loved Jesus.
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1903 27 18
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1. The ghost that photographs my wife and me has a peculiar sense of lighting. In this one, we are sitting at the kitchen table of our old apartment. The table is made of glass. There is nothing on the table except our elbows. She has lowered her head between her…
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565 21 17
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They sang and clapped and stomped shod feet on hardwood floor, the smell of man sweat and bomb-making thick as perfume.
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2572 34 14
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I loved my Dad. He was executed in 1967. He was guilty.
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3512 35 18
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the dream went by this way/
i woke and held a cigarette/
the hudson wore winter white
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259 25 16
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"What, you only like my funny stories?"
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1885 29 16
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a world of probability against plague
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2127 20 17
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My glasses fog up every time I go to collect her from the pool. I'll never get used to glasses. When my sight got suddenly worse the day she was born, I didn't tell anyone. As she turned from baby to child, my love for her grew, and my world got smaller,
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