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His eyes are wide then narrow and brown. Hers are gray then they look away, toward the back door where a delivery driver has walked in, carrying a tray. Nothing is going to happen today.
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We danced the pee dance after too much Seven Up and tasted odd Jello dishes.
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Only scotch and cheap champagne/
retain their reliable flavors.
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"Maybe so, but you have seen those photos in the National Geographic, right? Do you really want to risk it?" she demands and I sigh in defeat.
I wake up at midnight, hot from too many blankets and pull my bra off through the sleeves of my shirt. I th
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“Stop!” I shouted. “I want to get off!” The toothy horses showed me the whites of their crazy eyes. “No, no”! they chorused as they whirled around and around and around.
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The decision is made. I am going to a Zumba class. What better way to achieve behavior modification than to leave my TV and fuzzy bear slippers behind for some hot Latin aerobics in a strip-mall? I try to pull my hair into a ponytail that will make the two inches of…
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The bones are chilled now, past/
invigorations of the coming spring//
and its entanglements
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Frenchie hustled waffle irons.
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Brian takes off his size eleven shoe and shakes it out on the table.
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Eli the dog cocks his head like a pistol;
half cock, full cock.
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I bear the wrong gin. Your air conditioner runs cold. It is either frigid or off, the gauge broken. You are not too old to overlook these things. You can't be choosy, but you will never beg. Just an occasional choice as you settle into this…
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Borges must be so proud somewhere
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The first one was dark and angular, coiled-looking inside an expensive suit. Over her food at a small table in the hotel bar, Francesca had been unable to look at anything else but him. Out of the suit, unsprung on a king-sized hotel bed, his skin…
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The river waited for her patiently.
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There are hundreds of fireflies crackling along the tree line and the old stonewall.
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I shuddered. This is how we are chosen
by strange and silent hands.
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"Baby, he turned gray and dead before he hit the floor".
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We invent our beauties//
as we find them and engineer/
our horrors
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We have always been a trashy species./
We study ourselves by examining/
garbage-- a pile of mussel shells here,
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He'd hung above her head for months.
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I almost kept him
on the shelf with all the trophies.
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San Bruno avenue, six shops in eight blocks. Those Vietnamese ladies thrive on the pedicure trade.
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Go ahead, boy, pout like a fool.
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He stays a couple of yards behind me as we slog uphill. I try to diffuse the tension with a coy toss of head, slip on wet leaves. My ankle rolls and I splat noisily down. From my new angle his beard looks less stylish—bristles straggle all up his neck. He maintains…
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I am a purveyor of leeches. All my
friends are purveyors of leeches.
We meet weekly to compare our wares.
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No snippet to see, here. The piece is so short a snippet would be the whole thing.
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Hi, I'm Harmony Korine. I esteem douchebags.
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You died from a bad heart.
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We were in her boyfriend’s room in the middle of the night. I was seated on the bed, and she was on the carpet poking holes in his condoms. We were doing it in the dark, to prepare for any contingency. The room smelled like old laundry and body spray.
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