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she bit the towel and called on God and I saw her life stretch out . . ....

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To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.

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when it comes to my death let it be slow, let it be pantomime, this last peep show,...

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they were placed in a box and painted identically blue...

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Ms. Dog wouldn't give them her buttocks. She would moon at them....

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Now that you are laid out, useless as a blind dog, now that you no longer lurk, the song rings in my head.

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Then he told the news media the strange details of his death...

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They are girls. Green girls. Death and life is their daily work....

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Is it possible he marries a cripple out of admiration?

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I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies...

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Judas had a mother His mother had a dream. Because of this dream he was altogether managed by fate and thus he raped her.

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Say the woman is forty-four. Say she is five seven-and-a-half....

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Where and to whom you are married I can only guess in my piecemeal fashion. I grow old on my bitterness.

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Jonah made his living inside the belly. Mine comes from the exact same place.

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Why do you smile that liverish smile? Why do you double over in a spaz and a swoon,...

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It was a bad performance. That's because I'm the only actor...

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Maybe, although my heart is a kitten of butter, I am blowing it up like a zeppelin.

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Now they are together like strangers in a two-seater outhouse, eating and squatting together.

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Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.

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the heart, this child of myself that resides in the flesh,...

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