416 2 2
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Let the knife remind your body what it used to be.
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19397
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The dogs are restless without your body to press against.
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8761
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You filled your bag with rolls of film about to expire. The planks of the boardwalk were dusted in sand, a cold wind blew off the ocean, the approaching fall. You said you preferred people in your photographs. The Mexican boys selling rosaries from a backpack. The old women…
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27462
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One of your roommates called to say your apartment was infested. You'd been staying with me in Brooklyn and hadn't gone home in weeks, but now you needed my help to remove furniture, move boxes of photo negatives, before the exterminator came to spray. I'd only ever been to…
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1872210
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After all this time, she still has painful things to say to him.
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10765
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A woman and a stranger wheel through an ancient stone maze. The arches are familiar. Feeling lost is familiar. The stranger knows his intravenous glance circuits the gears of her heart. Her pulse opens and shuts its indigo eyes. Now he is a message in the base of her…
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100
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Incoming leaflets beg us to surrender.
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Incoming leaflets beg us to surrender.
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96844
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From the rumple of pre-dawn Queens, sure South on 95, to almost Savannah by dark; still cold, but we’re full of what’s coming:
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62597
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It's raining starfish amputees. Dear Distraction, the closest weapon of convenience, please explain the vintage Zorro masks and acrylic hair attachments in unnatural colors.
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16602818
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After my father moved in with his girlfriend, my mother sold the split-level and rented a two-bedroom in an apartment complex rife with divorced mothers and the under-employed.
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200
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My uniformed father's smile resembles the Mona Lisa's, as inscrutable to me as ever...
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76810
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The abstracted man lacks an inside. He is a body. A shell. An exterior that encompasses nothing.The abstracted man yearns to fill himself with adjectives. He lumbers through streets. No adjectives fit. He finds adjectives where we discard them. He carries them in his…
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100
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the great and terrible sigh of silence
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the great and terrible sigh of silence
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