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We were fleeing hurricane Katrina. We stopped somewhere in Texas at a roadside diner, but found a sign that said it was closed. We were so hungry. All of a sudden as we sat there in our car, the shop's owner knocked on the window and asked what he could g
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on the far shore, in the vineyards
timed charges explode like the sun catching on fire
it scares crows away from the grapes
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the vigilance that informs a parent's every hour had momentarily lapsed
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“I want you to know that you are being watched,” Ernie said. “I have trained a camera on your work station.”
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When nothing's coming in All I have are fragments Cloudy memories Uncompleted projects Disappointments loom large and threaten to define me I am only as good as what I produce And now I feel empty So how do I shine How do I find the spark that…
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The tubing unwound in her hands, unreeling like a garden hose... it wasn't always that easy...
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... she’d stolen her boyfriend away from her, leaving her with a goldfish and a cat. Oh, and a pillow and some lights, she added. And I can’t really see you, because I’m blind.
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I suggested a threesome for her birthday. In jest, I thought. But here we are; me in my checkered Oxford, Katie in her red silk blouse, as planned. We're at this sushi place at the corner of 9th and Bentham. “Zuma.” I hate this restaurant, to tell you the…
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In the beginning the revolution was all motion and energy. When the President for Life resigned motion and energy disappeared with the sounds of clapping hands.
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The suspended heart became an oracle of sorts. Hung from a string, immersed in the kind of glass container in which tulips grow, it was located between Bath and Body Works and Kleinfelter's Jewelers at the north entrance of the mall. Someone had lost it,
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As soon as I got the suspenders adjusted I felt different. I felt like Wilfred Brimley.
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A woman confronts her suspicions about her husband's fidelity.
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I go down to pick up R and get a cartridge of black ink for the printer. It's an extremely pleasant summer day — early afternoon — and the air is exemplary: clear and sweet. So far so good. But as soon as I park and go to a nearby cash machine the fun begins.…
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And I watched,
from her warm bed,
the curtains dancing
in the window
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there is a vault in the mountains / that in itself contains infinite vaults
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Last night the thesaurus exploded. Don’t ask how. It just did. Exploded. Burst. Blew up. Flew into pieces. Discharged.
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At my college there were film societies for foreign films, contemporary films, documentary films—you name it. The people who ran these clubs tended to dress in black turtlenecks and wear berets—indoors!
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Elvis awoke in a cold, dank sweat, hungover from bourbon and bad dreams.
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The house stood quietly in its surrounds. Unnerved by the beauty that enveloped it. Green forest trees loomed round the house protecting it from the outside world and in front of it lay a sweeping lake that disappeared into the trees on…
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He ignored his scalded scrotum and listened intently. The music was beautiful beyond all physical pleasure or pain. The end of the piece gave him a deeper understanding of the expression 'la petite mort'.
While he was still recovering, the next track b
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I nearly burst out laughing when I heard myself telling him in my accented English that she’d confided in me that she was preparing to sacrifice herself as part of an elaborate snuff film produced by a band of psychotic artists hell-bent on making up for
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I send pronouns on walkabouts to where there are only planes and light
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It is said that lovers find lips in the dark through secret brain circuitry.
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In Nebraska, I looked up from the flatness, to her face, then down to the page and saw this: Real people have joy.
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didn't know how to do it
just tried to squeeze on the teats
didn't know I had to grab up on the udder and pull
Unca Ole laughed
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Since the divorce had gone final, the matter settled once and for all, he’d taken to a masochistic bingo of sorts.
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So, the sweet beast of idle speculation may be calling my name by memory, because I am capable of feeling, or suffering. I may be a conduit to such, because the rational soul provides the bridge. Some wild ass summoning your name, clean, uncovered, disc
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Troy approached the podium and cleared his throat.
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you are in Faulkner’s dream -a lost pilgrim in cheap shoes
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But tonight the circus is dark. She is free to go to her lover, to embrace, to float in the night sky.
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