Cheltenham: CHS Facade edition with preface

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#418I remember thinking: boy do I feel Wild at Hearttonight. What a joke— this horrible Cheltenhambitch with a huge nose tries to generate an orgy inher basement. The pot was alright, at least. ButElkins Park gave us the creeps, and we agreedafterwards never to go back. The fucked up thingabout that night for me in particular was knowingwe would have fun talking about it forever. Andwe have, so I guess it’s not a complete dead loss.The girl I was with pretended I was fucking her, too.18
#420I.The Junior Prom deposited me (and fifteenothers) on the floor of her basement. I couldbarely see daylight at the time, and at three inthe morning I began to prowl. I was too scaredto turn on any lights. She emerged like a mermaidfrom seaweed. I needed comfort, she enjoyed myneed. We had gone out— she was bitter. The wholedialogue happened in shadows. No one was hookingup in the other room, either. You spiteful little princess.II.Whether off the bathroom counteror the back of your hand, darling,your unusual vehemence thatwinter night, cob-webbed byhalf-real figures, was animated by anunfair advantage, which stooges threwat you to keep you loopy as youdied piece-meal. All I hadwas incomprehensible fury and abroken heart— when I hit the floorat four, you were getting readyto play fire-starter, openedthe little snifter, curled your fingertwice in the right direction; darkness—19
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Page 5 and 6: #261Never one to cut corners about
Page 7 and 8: #414And out of this nexus, O sacred
Page 9 and 10: #671Even as a little girl, she got
Page 11 and 12: #415There’s something sweet and s
Page 13 and 14: #213You and your proud working-clas
Page 15 and 16: #216You can force your pen into a c
Page 17 and 18: #160Your skin hangs around you like
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Page 25 and 26: #524When he drives around Elkins Pa
Page 27 and 28: #215“The girl in the black dress
Page 29 and 30: #429It’s Friday night, and she’
Page 31 and 32: #1632The guy with the hedge-clipper
Page 33 and 34: #1672Poets are boringpeople, she sa
Page 35 and 36: #1163In the dream I lied, I saidI w
Page 37 and 38: #1566Your voice came through her (I
Page 39 and 40: #1059Bandaged head, nine staves, I
Page 41 and 42: #1113Her money, she repeats to hers
Page 43 and 44: #1503This I tell you—you can live
Page 45 and 46: #554Your game; every moved piece mo
Page 47 and 48: #563red dress, itsthat, that, pink,
Page 49 and 50: #544I’m learningthat the tasteof
Page 51 and 52: #1489campus: she’s in anelevator,
Page 53 and 54: #1131She goes to a lake, thinks of
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Page 57 and 58: #1200She asked me how I did it,I tu
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Page 65 and 66: #112It’s company of flesh and blo
Page 67 and 68: #271“Never forget: Cleopatra had
Page 69 and 70: #148Everyone knows she has about tw
Page 71 and 72: #151Last time they met, she keptspi
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#193Why, as I climb Old York Road,t
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