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When God created Adam and then Eve, he thought they were fucking awesome. It's true that Eve grew on him but even so: awesome.
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I squeeze the soft bag tighter between my legs.
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"In the camps we ate whatever garbage they gave us." This according to my mother. "We had no choice." But I had eaten pig with gusto at an anti-Semite's table. Somehow this had to be undone. Burial in soil was all I could imagine.
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You marched in step from 9 to 5, kept perfect pace, pledged allegiance to enforced mediocrity, until the day they let you go—the day you knew that you were never Buddy Holly on their plane; just another passenger, brilliant but doomed.
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We had them in our bunk beds in the trailer, before Becky fell and broke her neck.
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if you whisper your truths, they'll disappear
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You would hate it if you knew how many times I apply lipstick now that you're gone. I'm putting it on, like, every five minutes to get through the next fifteen, though I know they use fish scales to make it, and it's like killing fish to put on lipstick for…
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Her mind was full of fresh air and swung like a bee over clover.
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... must we turn again (and again)/
to an orchestra stripped of wind and drum?
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He looks in silence and he looks with longing.
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Assholes are assholes
who do asshole things.
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The forest is still there.
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I really detest dating that leads to sex=ownership or to the expectation of it. The men are so quietly demanding, authoritarian, pushy. Who are these nice fuckers? Strays a'hounding. I want to tell them: I have friends, real friends with art agendas.
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Dexter is a demon. He called me an over-accessorized hot spot yesterday evening and FYI: he didn’t even kiss me. I slammed the door and left my own apartment. I slept in my car.
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Somehow, random phrases and sentences from the stories, comments and profile pages were generated as “replies”.
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“Should I go over?” Ma asked, wishing she could freshen her lipstick while finger-combing her frosted hair.
“Sarah, fagodsake, let the man eat in peace. No one wants to have his picture made with food in their mouth,” said Pa.
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The happiness was a tablecloth for a picnic. The happiness was the carpet in the hallway. The happiness was the wall behind the painting. The happiness was the sky behind the cloud. The happiness was the seating in the Saab.
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i could make swamp boys believe / under dust-sheets stiffened by ice
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The next winter the house burned down.
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She was fast as the wind and lived on air, her clothes a size 0000.
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So, have your whiskey like a good son.
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During the liberation, a Jew in the Russian army, asked him who had been the cruelest. My father gave them the name of the farmer who had murdered his father, and was later told the farmer's son was sent to the front and killed.
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All carcinoma/
would be hors d’oeuvres/
for its dark appetite.
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I went with Dale Stack to drown a cat on a fading summer afternoon.
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