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Man in audience immolating himself, cutting his leg over and over
And moaning: Oh, God, oh God. Groaning, more like it
I could only think: This guy must absolutely hate my poems
I was reading from Puppet X, the first time in public
Of this long
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Paul and Mary Jo lived in an apartment at the top of a long, dark flight of stairs that were so high, I remember as if it were yesterday thinking, the night she pushed him down the stairs, he would surely be dead by the time he hit the landing at the
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I took her out to a drive-in movie and we had sex in the back seat of my car. Then went into the concession stand to get something sweet after so much sex, and everyone was in there doing the same thing, you could tell by the flushed look on their faces
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James Hubert III sat at the bar. It was late. His wife and kids were long in bed and he knew he should be, too. But with the Lovelandtown lift bridge stuck in mid-air, a drink beckoned him. He sat next to Vince DeSantos, a small, stout man, with a bowling
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A son packs his bag - bottled water, extra masks, and jerky. Mom paces behind him. “Don't go.”
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“No,” he says. A simple lie. “I -” He pushes the sleeping bag off of his legs. Their getaway reset was a mistake.
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None of this is real, he says, and the path slopes down to a house that is possibly haunted. One always looks in such windows, one cannot not look at the predictable detritus of another's failure, a queer satisfaction, a fairy's dust. But no, not real, none of it. And…
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Daryll said he wished he'd followed his tuba into the Raccoon River, plunged down below the ice, trapped, freezing, never again to surface... He reckoned freezing was the best way to go, gunshot the second.
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I took her out to a drive-in movie and we had sex in the back seat of my car. Then went into the concession stand to get something sweet after so much sex, and everyone was in there doing the same thing, you could tell by the flushed look on their faces
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Dear Credit Card Thief, I think of you—hunched, green cast, a zombie of the ephemeral, greedily parsing code, stealth hands like a lover's over my plastic doppelgänger, wafer of identity, your key to the internet of things, to me. Did you have a pleasant…
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The windows were open at the pink apartment building, upstairs and down. People enjoying the warm day and the remains of the sunlight, when this woman in one of the upstairs apartments began yelling about the Children of Israel. It was approaching dinnert
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After it is over, I go out into the world to the café. The flower sellers are setting up their booth outside the glass doors. Classical guitar over the speakers. A soft rain falling. Heads are bowed there, reading the news. Coffee, croissants, cappuccin
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Suddenly a big ruckus or commotion erupted in the restaurant
“Yeah, come and get it, if you want it so bad,” said the waiter
Pulling off his white apron and tossing it on an empty table
“I got your red snapper, right here.” He grabbed his crotch
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Granny says Jesus works quiet and curious but mama leaving with the UPS man weren’t no great mystery.
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Customers at a Costco in South Anchorage, Alaska, have been noticing that their shopping bags are a little lighter, and it all has to do with some cunning birds that hang out in the parking lot looking for their next meal.
The Anchorage Daily News rep
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