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this orient tide come occident: this roll of wreck and reckoned eyes that fathomless are found or made to find her keep within the tight shut shell in soundings deeper than the plumblined soul these western waves gone east: these…
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I left Iowa in august when the air was thick and sticky. I had been there three years minus a few days when the boy I'd been sleeping with packed almost everything I owned into my car and waved goodbye. In Baltimore I had few friends and a job teaching English at a…
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28981
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The last time I saw you was the last time you'll ever see me. I've spent my entire life trying to force you to love me. You'll see my body and my charm but you'll wonder, what's different? It will frustrate you.
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10822
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All the baby monsters are being born on stage.
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6641
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“Namaste,” I say as I hand the guy his ticket. “The divinity within me salutes the divinity within you. Have a nice freaking day.”
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Everything I understand / is in danger.
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don't trust everything you read:in the middle of that nightI remembered I had forgotten them:the train depots, the photographs,the fiends, the raveling, the hivesthose boarded-up hives, bourbon-laced and slurring out their ambered sapone drunken hymn at a time.
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Welcome one and all of you,welcome scraggly long haired weeds,welcome no longer rolling stones,welcome,you beautiful little wonderfully engineered spiders,to the powdery old graveyard shift of yours…
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By the time she reached home, dinner would be there in thirty minutes, on the table. Not a lively table, just politeness, and calm. There were no issues of the day that needed discussing, no problems to be solved.
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I want to dig my fingers into the paint and spread yellow whiskers across my cheeks. I want to become a lion.
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It is a rubber soul in your hands.
You are five.
Viet Nam is in the news.
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He trembled as she splayed open his palm...
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There was a body in the backseat, and they drove through the highways at night to a late night radio show that played 80’s power ballads. He said: “I am really glad you’re here for me.”
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I watched daytime TV. Small claims court. Judge Wapner. There was trouble in all sectors of paradise. Dogs fled. The sign that said Free HBO lied. The Happy Meals always came with repeat toys. My toothbrush with the Incredible Hulk was back in the trailer
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I’m going to stop there, before the darkness sets in.
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Nearby a figure wearing a long coat has just walked into the water.
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He said, “It was only after I broke my neck and even like maybe a year later that I really started realizing that I had something to say.”
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Ben tossed the newspaper aside, muttering. Carol, curled up on the sofa, peered past the glasses at the tip of her nose and past the crossword puzzle.
"What?"
"The Brits wanted to fight rather than be taken hostage. They had an escort boat ridin
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gods aren’t going to help you son
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A cruel panther gets its prey.
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Fridays always said it was time for golf,which left me wide, wide like the space between your teeth,on the stoop til you'd let me share your palm with your nine iron.I was a utility. Your gap toothed divot tool or a headcover that had your smile.Sometimes you'd gawk back,…
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Darkness was fast approaching. I stuck out my tongue at Naya, and she reached out as if to grab…
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she covered me with down and kissed me good night, tucking in loose ends, whispering prayers... she cut me out of paper and blew me into life. she held the scissors near my neck in case i put up a fight. she covered me in clothes cut out of colored paper: polka dotted…
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Because if they’re wavering, it's about the coin, always about the coin.
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You enter through swiftly opening doors: headache-blue neon above, pool of glistening chemicals below. You follow antiseptic tracks to the tune of “Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head”, traversing a no man's land of frozen foods. See the…
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There were literally thousands of criteria that got people of every stripe and strata on the list, which had been maintained since before the very first human fingers scrawled crude images on blank surfaces.
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I held the steam and scrubbed it. How do you do that? asked Willy. How do you scrub steam? It is so, you know, diaphanous. I said to Willy, because Willy was a good man and listened with both ears, we adapt to the heart's convulsions. I send my grammar to a…
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His beard is an eighteenth-century forest / in south central France
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Is there a recipe for / lasting happiness?
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