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				        “You're right by the mall, the cultural district, and just a few minutes from downtown,” the realtor smiled.        “And it's on a bus line?” the wife asked.        “Yes it… 
					
				 
				
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				Dreaming a word I woke:  Encomium? There was no one about and I looked. Maybe I was grateful for waking  from sleep again or just from sleep. A fool's freedom. Both. All. Time now  looked like a door. But behaved like a vacuum. Still the consequences were the … 
					
				 
				
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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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				Coupling—why did I say that? Who says that? I mean the clacking together of bones, the willful splitting of fine and tender skin.  
					
				 
				
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				every timeyou openyour mouthan angel fallsinto a vat of whiskyshut ityou're fucking up heaven2013 - Rene 
					
				 
				
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				i’m trying to remember
don’t all the best apples happen
in September? 
					
				 
				
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				purely fun,
humane, scientific, 
old time religious 
experimentation 
					
				 
				
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				I don't care for those shoulder pads, Jennifer. 
					
				 
				
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				She laughed as she stuck up the word flaccid,
it kept falling down 
					
				 
				
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				Good kid. Awesome job in big cities. Travels a lot. Enjoys Martinis and G&T. She's a romantic. Spends her time online trolling people into submission. Likes softcore porn.  Sets cats on fire. Collects stamps. 
					
				 
				
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				Since high school. It'd been that long. Donald had shared five classes with Julia—or was it six? If home-ec counted, then it was six. It was the same period, but they were never together because the classes were split with boys and girls—and were each voted Most… 
					
				 
				
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				I usually idle by Spades Check Cashing on 8th Ave. and catch folks that way. The Homestead cops, they moved stations from a little up Amity to down on 7th, which is closer to Spades, but they leave me alone. I've drove jitneys almost ten years. Only been cited twice,… 
					
				 
				
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				What I did I wouldn't call criminal, just stupid. Even my judge, after so many court appointments, didn't understand what had happened. And there's a reason I got out on illegal sentencing but, either way, I paid the better part of a year for it all. I don't want to tell… 
					
				 
				
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				I’m supposed to be writing poems but it’s Saturday morning and I’m watching cartoons. 
					
				 
				
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				I loved her when she first came calling in the sodden dawn of spring.   She was a strange and dangerous flower.  Together we drank up all the money.  The days staggered away like drunks lurching down a flophouse hall.  
					
				 
				
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