957 2 1
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The water quality
will give you a hint
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1178 2 2
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Her eyes blaze through the green burka as her veil drops, revealing skull where face should be. Her teeth form a death grin, words pour from within, hollow like a baby's rattle. She speaks Farsi
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1254 2 2
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“I’m pregnant,” he says...
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909 5 1
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Every time I look at you there are two dumb mouths that slip between stretch marks.
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1034 2 1
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1055 3 0
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...it was just my heart stnging through my eyes...
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970 3 1
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Crunching gravel beneath my feet, the sound of approaching death.
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1396 4 0
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I don’t know what to make of this new territory we have stumbled into neither by accident, it seems, or design. Is there a map to be found?
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1004 4 1
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I gently honked my horn and gave her the kind of friendly neighbor wave that only friendly neighbors can give. She didn’t wave back. What the hell is her problem?
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1208 4 2
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Dandelions wither as I approach and the grass dies under my feet.
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1415 3 1
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It’s me walking in on you shooting up in the diner’s cesspool of a
shitter, and you trying to conceal the evidence while you’re telling
me it’s straight up your first time.
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1089 3 1
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okay fine, on the count of three
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1014 1 2
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Old scars at night burn hot and bright
Deep in her heart in Texas
She rides around with the ragtop down
Driving her brand new Lexus
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1187 2 1
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In his tiny fist he held the world
In his other his mothers hand
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The mannequin’s blind eyes, open, green, serene,
Look away from the cross, her hand
Against our crotch, against
Our suffering, our agony of being
Alive and beating warm.
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“Cheng Ho didn’t go just Cape Horn; treasure ships visit Australia and America. His very advanced compass. Not just point north-south. Show east-west too.”
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802 2 2
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“Oh, where are you going to, O tow-haired rover?” Though my sight turns nowhere homeward, and my mouth's run numb, I can hear a leaflet sifting through the walls of clover; Though I stay, I ‘m going forth and o'er to Camelot, come- On a four…
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564 2 1
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The light on his face from a lamp
Felt hat with a black band
Scrunched down
The nose creating a strong shadow
With dark, straight eyebrows under the hat
Red and orange beard
Leaning forward at the café table, watching
A damp curl of ha
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980 3 1
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He fought off the U-boat packs in the Atlantic — one hand on the tiller, one on the torpedo launch button.
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1192 4 1
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Wicklow sat in the handicapped stall, pants down and straining, fed up to here with a world in which he couldn’t even take a decent crap.
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I slept and it was pleasant. Then there was the kiss, and it was hot. Later you turned away, and all was November chill. Now there are touches, caresses and shouts, Marvelous nights flavored with favors bestowed, and blackened days,…
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957 1 2
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The Sunday sunset slowly simmers the sea.
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1275 3 1
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"do you know what your problem is when it comes to girls?"
she must mean other than the fact that they're all
completely insane. or at least all the ones i've dated.
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953 2 1
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The first intimation that something was afoul was when his computer crashed.
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1203 3 1
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the future wrapped up in a dream
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1070 3 2
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789 4 1
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Bum on a Parisian stoop begging
with his big Jackson Pollack
bare head in the rain
The water running in streaks
all over his brain
Reminding him of a painting
He once thought of
Keep going, you’re coming back
again. Get out of the car wrec
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1395 6 1
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ANTHONY I decide after Jill and I have dinner at her flat and smoke an enormous joint that I need to call Tyler, a conversation I'm not particularly looking forward to. I leave and she's not happy, but I tell her I have homework and we kiss a little bit…
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1094 2 1
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You hold me now, and pay attention.
Everything is new.
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1081 2 2
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I am young. This is years before I start to hide my accent.
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