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there she was, this beautiful duck with her 4 beautiful babies, under my bush.
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I can’t take my eyes off a tall blonde with green eyes. I catch her eye.
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a midge smothered
in the light of disarray
crawls back into the sage
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“Wait, so you’re Burt Lancaster? You’re not tall enough to be Burt Lancaster.” I popped a hand over my mouth. Wine as truth serum would do me no favors.
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It seems a little solipsistic/
but may indeed be evidence of God//
given its mystery and caprice.
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I love the notion of uncertainty-/
which seems inherent/
at the level of particles-
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a chosen cantaloupe a child let loose . . .
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One could count fifty moons hanging in the sky, in rows and columns of smaller skies.
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Sometime that night I heard one; you get so you know when they’re coming in low down the valley or set up high over the coastals and I was sure about it.
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After shooing away the filthy pigeons and closely inspecting the bench, he squinted with his good eye at a second-page article on noise abatement headphones.
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It is the fragrance of decay/
as paint, polymers and dyes/
outgas molecules of themselves
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Through by the sands and the rocks we were going and the lake liquid had tumbled the stones by the thousands so that while the water was still we could see agates and yellow jaspers and other or even the odd and misspent piece of rounded glass green or white safe…
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Normally, Aidan looked like a guy. A highly feminine guy, but still a guy. He wore his hair in a buzz cut (a turn on of mine), wore tight clothes, worked out so he had a bit of muscle, but nothing over the top. And he was my guy.
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It was Christopher who got her thinking about the Jews again. He had left the same day they did, and so all were connected in her mind, as if together somehow. She read his letters half-wondering if he would mention them, wanting to know if the Jews were
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The laptop has ruined the sanctity of the library. And so I get up and go see Queen Jane.
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I underline the passages Momma does in her Bible and circle the same words she does, of the oil Samuel uses to anoint David...
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Our friend, M. Dieu-Juste partnered in a used car business with a Vietnamese mechanic, Mr. Tran. Cars however, were not their only venture.
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The murder of two teens late one humid night on a tiny rural Virginia island brings a dark, malignant mystery edging into the village known as Leicester Court House.
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When the dark shadows of his limp eyes told us life was slowly seeping away, stolen by his stroke, his wife signed the “DO NOT RESUSCITATE” order and, tearfully leaving the room, she turns, asking a final question, “Think a needy family could use his…
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The White House released only a short-form pedigree certificate, which “breeders” claim bears signs of alteration. “The ‘K’ in the middle of ‘AKC’ is longer than the other letters, like an El Greco on an acid trip.”
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Who owns the moon? What title search/
could ever make a claim?
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my loosening grip on time.
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If in one instant of follie I plea to you What am I? would you then not ask yourselfwhat are We?Would you think maybe We are oneand I would ask to you my loveCan One, then, be transformed into Two? What is left of one after the sum?Can two be touched or…
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"Find the part where you need closure." said She.
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God damn you women get me all /
twisted up thinking oohrahrah and lala
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He says, You think too much and he grins a grin that has all of the attic keys on a wrought iron ring, on a chain.
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I know it’s nobody’s fault, and that one thing had nothing to do with the other, because it was this way for me since I was born; they just didn’t figure it out for a while that with one of my ears I could hardly hear, and with the other, I couldn
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I hope you'll have the time to read this before your attention wanders.
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