Word: wet
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...poem of “Self-Portrait,” Ashbery addresses 16th century painter Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola: “Whose curved hand controls, / Francesco, the turning seasons and the thoughts / That peel off and fly away at breathless speeds / Like the last stubborn leaves ripped / From wet branches?” The lines are typical Ashbery—both contemplative and frenzied, an ecstasy of stillness...
...should have listened to your parents when they told you not to go to Cancun for spring break. No, not because of the warring drug lords. Or because of your penchant for tequila shots and wet t-shirt contests. In fact, the reason you shouldn't have gone to Mexico involved neither alcohol nor sex! It was… THE SWINE...
...fills the air - it's the first Cirque de Porno. There's also a cast member in a yellow shaggy-dog suit who trots to the front of the stage, lifts his leg and pees into the front row. Note to those with the $135 tickets: you may get wet...
...Mikucki refers to the subglacial pond as "a unique sort of time capsule from a period in Earth's history," but it also has lessons for scientists studying Mars, an entire planet that is in many ways a time capsule too. Mars, like Antarctica, was once warm and wet, but the slow loss of its atmosphere also meant the loss of much of its moisture and surface heat. Still, the place was warm and wet long enough for life to have taken hold - life that would have then had to retreat into underground water deposits and make the same kind...
...thought for a second I might have my period—that’s how wet I was. But I didn’t even check because she was so still, and it was just like I’d imagined it. Time frozen and a girl lying down and waiting for me. I pulled the tight straps of her leotard down by her elbows, then peeled the whole thing away from her skin and left it dangling at her knees. Her breasts were medium, I’d say, bigger than mine, but so high and round they...