694 6 5
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The belly dancer waved a gauzy strip of blue fabric in front of her face. She flung it towards their table, but it landed feebly a few feet away. Donny lunged forward and grabbed it, then slid back into his seat, glowing. Mary Ellen reached across the tab
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1370 20 14
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I become the accumulation/
of appetites
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1381 5 4
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She allowed him to wash her hair. Touching it in a wet state, running his hands through it in a soapy state, wringing the water out when he was finished—he was ecstatic.
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1539 9 8
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. . . catching her breath somewhere between ecstasy and surprise. . .
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1370 3 3
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I contemplate the words that did not make it; the lost ones. The words deprived of their moment in the sun. These words. These words that are not part of the story.
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1337 1 2
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and like the want
of weather, we walk away or come close
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1239 2 3
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my crotch-heavy press of 'Yes.'
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1562 3 3
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The Karaoke Girls are not appreciated. Not nearly enough and not often enough.
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174 15 11
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128 9 7
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how beautiful it could have been
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58 4 4
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. . . when distance loses memory in plain sight . . .
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83 9 4
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1567 15 13
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I almost kept him
on the shelf with all the trophies.
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