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				    We light cigarettes, take turns putting them out on each other's arms, legs, anywhere hard without a mark. It's living, he says, it's better to know you're alive than feel nothing at all. My brother is two years older than you, I was thinking on Tuesday,… 
					
				 
				
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				These are not the caffeinated men of barbaric lore. 
					
				 
				
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				My only celebrity anecdote involves seeing Barbara Bush in the back of the Presidential limo ... 
					
				 
				
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				blackberry pie and huckleberry wine and litte Maria with her summerset bangs 
					
				 
				
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				    The last time my old lady threw me out, I  decided to go and stay with my brother. I thought, "That's the last place  I'll be welcome," and I knew that was true. The drive was calming, which  was good, because Steven wouldn't have even let me in if I… 
					
				 
				
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				Shannon refused to jump from the castle drawbridge to the gigantic truck tire sunk halfway down in the playground quicksand. He just stood there-arms folded across his chest, bony knees sticking out from beneath ratty cutoffs-in silence, looking to Rollie 
					
				 
				
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				Rose, silence her desire when she, in this moment of desire, has passed into the grey and dawdles in the margins of such a hurtful unconventionality. Bend her astray from such a becoming. It would be a horror show: intimate, endless, and bloody, just the  
					
				 
				
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				- Of or relating to dreams 
					
				 
				
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				I wore a padded bra.  Proud of my tits.  D. ordered a Bloody May, I had a vodka tonic.  After the second drink I slipped out into the fog,  and smoked a little weed.  I could see Long Island College Hospital across the street. To my right, the BQE rose up 
					
				 
				
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				It has been more than three decades since I returned to work from a noon union meeting to find myself, along with about twenty others, locked out of the printing plant where we worked. 
					
				 
				
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				There aren’t requirements, only expectations.  I’m writing this, because, at the time it happened it seemed strange to me.  People might think I’m writing because now, it makes sense, right?  It doesn’t, I’ll tell you that much.  I’ll also tell you what i 
					
				 
				
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				They say ehmand for almond in the San Joaquin Valley. 
					
				 
				
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				As you can see, egotism forms at a young age for people who end up in this industry. 
					
				 
				
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				to pay dues to the calendar year / when a day breaks in quartertime / the stars account for halftone 
					
				 
				
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				The crackling inferno sweeps across the ground
Devouring all in its scorching path 
					
				 
				
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				She's waiting there, for you, in bed
but the analgesic cigarette
calms your mind more than her heat.
She's there waiting, in your bed,
eyes closed, fluttering, somewhere
between the dream and practical world.
 
					
				 
				
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				My sadistic doctor was the only one laughing .  Yes sir, I was officially, cordially, confirmed to meet that Irish/ Russian fellow…Colon Oscopy. 
					
				 
				
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				He had a handsome dial tone, we called him every name but his.  
					
				 
				
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				he flies away
past the green explosion,
into the azure sky 
					
				 
				
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				She would occasionally grant a surgical intern sexual congress. 
					
				 
				
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				She’ll get a dog 
a Weimaraner 
I know 
She’ll call him Alfie 
after her first 
two dogs 
He’ll try to get up 
on the bed 
She’ll say, Alfie, no, no 
But in the night 
she will let him 
so as not to be lonely 
 
					
				 
				
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				A needle passed through my lungs. My breathing made the needle pierce deeper. I felt anger rise up within me but I determined not to cry. – I had cried enough. No more tears. Arossi looked at me, probably expecting me to cry. I didn’t
 
					
				 
				
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				The women of Bixby, Texas, united in their frustration and general thirst for arson, cheered as Flossie’s Bordello and Bar-B-Q Shack burned to the ground. 
					
				 
				
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				A shadowless torpedo shaped form plummeted from the grey, overcast skies upon the many unsuspecting. No remote pilot thousands of miles away guided this particular descent.  
					
				 
				
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