| 1150  4  5   
 | Is there anything more emphatic than an ovary?  | 
		
		
			| 1762  6  2   
 | Kitchen Knife (n.)1. A standard kitchen tool consisting of a sharp blade attached to a handle intended for cutting, peeling, chopping, slicing, and dicing.2. Used primarily for food preparation (see also BUTCHERING; BACKSTABBING; JACK THE RIPPER; DEATH BY A THOUSAND… | 
		
		
			| 1330  6  4   
 | Too often, Calvin's willful head finds its way into his hands. | 
		
		
			| 1057  5  4   
 | Love comes and goes as it pleases. Plant lives matter you know. Isn't it so obvious? I'm sure you've noticed or felt like you've been here before. Maybe forever. Just ask any hand-held camera or open book. Well. How many times can we… | 
		
		
			| 1206  5  5   
 | Some nights I want to take my father’s glock / and build my skull a sunroof. | 
		
		
			| 1045  6  4   
 | We made a plan to see each other to chat more and so we did. I went to his little house in the neighboring town and walked in to a kind of time warp. It was a large living room, made so by it's emptiness. It was stark in the vastness it seemed, but dark.  | 
		
		
			| 1057  5  5   
 |      are speaking clear enough, through their open and     bleeding wounds, for you to at least try and understand. Waving their     massive arms like living lighthouses, bobbing in and     out of the floundering waves, they are splashing          out an… | 
		
		
			| 1185  8  4   
 | His legs were pedaling hard and his  heart was beating fast,    He's got his scars; He can't outrun his past,  Down the hill he goes, wind whipped his hair, a new style with each draft.  He broke his brakes long ago; He cut the cable and ripped off the pads.      He cried… | 
		
		
			| 1593  6  4   
 | When I was 17, they said in an e-mail that you would get too  drunk to function and that you would abuse them, verbally, and do way more than  embarrass them in public. They said you'd yell at them and hit their mom for  any reason. They put a restraining order on you.… | 
		
		
			| 1642  9  4   
 | I didn’t have toothpicks. You looked at me as if it summed up everything about me. | 
		
		
			| 1999  12  3   
 | The City Council supports this policy and, by necessity, ranks human slavery very low on the list of the city’s woes. | 
		
		
			| 1706  10  3   
 | A crash, a loud tear screams through the house. A coffee table continues its dutiful life as a bitch. | 
		
		
			| 1569  5  5   
 | Is it you with that fucking gold and platinum yacht?!? | 
		
		
			| 1713  7  4   
 | Before he knew what happened, Shelia ran out of his life forever with their baby in her belly. | 
		
		
			| 1392  6  4   
 | We became The World Famous Shadow Puppet Theater because we thought that the best way to become world famous was to act as though we already were.  | 
		
		
			| 1590  12  4   
 | "Cooperation and sharing could eliminate poverty."
 | 
		
		
			| 1316  5  5   
 | and pressed an area
on my forehead
between my eyes
 | 
		
		
			| 1979  9  3   
 | I laugh too loud cause the world looks good that way and for a minute we both make funny sounds just to exercise our vocal cords and see how close we can come to the line without crossing. | 
		
		
			| 1421  6  3   
 | It was only a dream. No one died, nor were they even harmed. So horrifying! | 
		
		
			| 1427  8  4   
 | It’s just that—well, I don’t know how to put this—
With a Dadaist poet a non-affair is the height of erotic bliss.
 | 
		
		
			| 1297  8  4   
 | Suddenly something clicked. | 
		
		
			| 1641  7  4   
 | Then daylight's lovely lantern/
Dressed in yellow white/
cleanness/ 
Danced a ballet towards/ 
Her majesty’s park bench/
She did!  She sat on you!
 | 
		
		
			| 1027  6  4   
 | Unhappiness is a necessary boon  | 
		
		
			| 1152  7  4   
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			| 1054  5  4   
 | After all our morals 
And ethics of distrust 
Have been ripped out 
And discussed 
There’s still the Meat Lady 
At the end of the day 
Standing around 
in the midst of the crowd 
Handing out her meat 
In little morsels 
on a toothpick 
Af | 
		
		
			| 1850  7  4   
 | Why can't you mimic your mythical counterpart?  Anna Karenina?  Have you never considered the tall dark stranger?  The boot to the face, the fangs on the neck?   Vronsky is Russian Gentry, a veritable prince and he swept that Anna  off her feet in two sec | 
		
		
			| 2204  7  5   
 | Sleeping Beauty was left sleeping on a plane 
They tried to wake her but couldn’t 
so they locked her in for the night 
When she got up in the middle of the night 
she was completely disoriented 
and staggered up the aisle to the bathroom 
t | 
		
		
			| 1712  6  4   
 | I wanted my sister to not be in that box.  I wanted my parents to laugh again. I wanted my friends to actually be my friends and not call me hurtful names behind my back.  I wanted my awful cousin to have never come into my room in the middle of the night.  I… | 
		
		
			| 1423  9  4   
 | In this lab, where I work 40 hours a week,
live the ghosts of questions asked. | 
		
		
			| 1638  5  4   
 | It was Brad, for short; or so  he would say. But really his name  was Bradford, and he was a writer. He had almost always lived in New York.  He was only half-white. His mother had run away with a black man in the  sixties. Her father had told her to never come back to… |