1428 13 6
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...galaxies burst into an infinite slide-show of the absolute... god?
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88 18 8
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...with all those stab wounds no way I'm betting on her odds...
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162 35 17
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...I am so out of this numbfuck place, this tired valley...
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1606 24 13
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You hear the thrum of blowflies first...
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1452 6 3
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She breezes through the door, cellphone to ear, with the confidence of the affluent. Can you look at my left rear tire, the dashboard indicator says it's low. Back to her phone, Oh, Marsha, hi, how are you, you gorgeous WOMAN, you!? Hey, I'm on my way to…
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1700 26 10
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I avert my gaze to the crab grass pushing through broken concrete, the spent condoms, the empty vodka nips rolling at her stockinged feet...
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1252 5 1
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4th of July weekend, Woodland canyon, summer heat like the Garden of Eden, lush, green, secluded. She lay by the creek in a lounge chair under dappled shade from the sycamore trees, listening to the frogs jump and the birds sing, admiring the orange tiger lilies that…
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1756 35 15
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No jobs except drinking...
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357 42 22
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He picks the Chevy so I naturally get a Ford. He loves Italian and I develop an allergic reaction to tomatoes.
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2197 26 17
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...she lifts one shell, sips a little, then swallows the creature whole.
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1353 23 11
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Mist falls from the opaque sky and splatters crystals in your hair...
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19 0 0
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I feel watched by an unknowable jailer.
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101 5 2
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The wind whispers to the Tigris River. I talk to the water because I am shy to God. Birds gather seed. Tigers devour prey. Hyenas lick up the scraps of God. I sit in the dark and worry. I watch death rise like heated…
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But I do not dig graves, only cradles...
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195 39 20
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Never water down the bottle...
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