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Everybody knew it would happen. It didn’t happen exactly when or how they thought it would, but nonetheless it happened.
“I told you it would happen,” a bearded man told his wife.
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"Give it to me I said, you dip! Fork it over!"
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The lounge in our hotel —— the Oregon coast —— one guest, wheelchair bound, in residence for the full summer season, asks us in her Main Line Philadelphia accent, "Have you come far?" "No, not far. Flew from Salt Lake…
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To write a good poem, one needs nothing but the whole intent of goodness.
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The girl who was me stands in a sandbox with upraised arms, honey hair tied with olive yarn in two ponytails. She says nothing, but wants me to pick her up.
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He had an addiction to elevating himself to higher levels of potential: some would call this ambition.
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He’d eaten every kind of pizza from the most sublime to the foulest.
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If I was going to liberate myself from my marriage to Rosie, the first step ought to be to liberate myself from my wedding band. That wasn't going to be easy. Along with the more prominent rolls of fat I'd been accumulating, my ring finger now bulged over the upper…
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The ghosts run before/
attacking horsemen. A heart/
is ruptured by a spear.
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The story itself is not much longer than a snippet. What is a snippet anyway?
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Whenever talk dies, or darkness gathers too closely around the breakfast table, everyone knows the list of ritual activities we can brightly suggest to skip the day forward.
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Just beyond the corkscrew slide / the President of Egypt was bleeding to death
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The Assistant is lost again in a grid city. Again she feels disconnected from the world. Where she is the sound has been switched off.
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Chap. XI: A Place Beauteous of Which I Dare Not Speak And when I had released the spirit from his worldly prison, he did show to me a way that man does not travel, though travel it I did with him until we should chance to see such things as should never be polaroided (and…
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Phoebe-Lou Adams wrote this of them
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The first engine arrived and a fireman heavy with gear stumbled from the side railing.
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But then there were car windows
bashed out on both sides
Glass on the ground
like Kristallnacht
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My music teacher, Luigi Biagi, told me that he was done with me. He said it was time I moved on to more specialized teachers. Since my passion was composing and arranging, he recommended Al Fine.
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My heart hurts as I miss you here./This was your intention, I know./
And nor is my reaction unique.
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My father's heart stumbles like a punch drunk fighter. I don't notice until I'm bending over him to help him up. He's lying a little down the hill from his truck, his door open, the motor still running. The…
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he wound up hating the woman he betrayed in his heart for betraying him in her body
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A vanishing of something we never got to see. All we've been left with are impressions, imaginings
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Aura arrives with the incense and her mysteries. Her scent of wet earth, and crushed flowers, a touch of Jasmine and Frankincense. Her dark hands passing over my body, her warmth. A whisper. A prayer.
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We jam into the green tent as it begins to rain. His casket is covered with flowers and there is the picture you took of him, the day you climbed the fire tower from where you could see forever, past his smiling face the bars and a million changing leaves.His pregnant girl…
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I want to fly like a snail. Yes, snails fly in their minds, so does the brain of the ocean.
Does a man want to drown in the ersatz of desire?
You must understand me. You and I swam together. They call it escape velocity.
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Somebody needs to call Frank. The pediatrician who fixes cars on the side.
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Someone had scrawled her on the walls.
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