966 7 5
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The woman abruptly closed her legs.
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98972
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When the black cloth falls on you all food tastes like airline food. Every song sounds like Barry Manilow. Every poem sounds like Rod McKuen. It’s all just noise to you now.
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94566
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Not today. Even when the Isar rolls so cool and deep and I could wade and wade 'til sleep. Not today. When I have the tablets in a drawer in a box winking chalkily at me. Not today. When the church tower soars and it's bells toll out a seductive beat …
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104344
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A rope is cleaner,
he explains with a straight face.
He's calmed by the visual.
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5300
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99133
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“I don’t want you to, not even for one minute,” she continued, tone empowered, “Blame yourself. If anything, you’re the only one who has ever given a damn…” she thought more, then added, “…besides Jeremy.”
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when he seeks to check, in the dark, maddeningly
precise, erudite, and won’t fold until he writes another Pulitzer Prize winner
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87963
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She became a murderer
in all the stages of her life
she could not seem to succeed
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100
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I may be the shadow that I am, but I only ever loved you.
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94966
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I may be the shadow that I am, but I only ever loved you.
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30322
|
Where am I? The void between life and death. The light at the end is flickering, not as bright nor as strong as I’d hope it would be.
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66011
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children love to push the gas up and down my limbs
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64486
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Yet tenderness resided here
among the canvases,
the tubes of paint, brushes, and candle wax;
the splatters of discarded ideas.
We made love the way people said prayers
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