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I. Happy Ending? Why Not! My wife and I got divorced and my little dog died and I decided I'd had enough of Seattle, so I hopped a boat to Belize, and soaked up the sun and gained back some weight and, by God, I got happy again. And I met this cool…
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Now that I no longer sleep to see you,
propelled by this motion that is not magic
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You drive that '67 Ford PU down highway 73 like it's gonna take you where you want to go. Pig truck makes you want to roll up your window, but it's just too damned hot. You stop on the shoulder next to a sign that tells you not to, and you look in your glove box for a…
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Contention over market share/
is bred in them and we are cousins
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That Dagwood is not a real person but a story told in dots. That Blondie is a male fantasy and will one day find her Nora Helmer.
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The bird sat there some time. Several minutes. My wife and I grabbed out i-Pads and took pictures.
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Dreams / of being a millionaire are replaced by dreams / of being a billionaire
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She first asked him to marry her when she was five, when 'marry me' meant 'I like you more than anybody else' and she loved everybody around her who was nice to her. And he was so very nice to her. …
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I bit her ear and /
it was burnt toast
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My student assistant was a comely young woman. A freckle faced blonde. She was from Ohio.
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Hurried, hassling suit in front of me is being awful to the barista. So she refuses to serve him, turning away.
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After his chemotherapy failed, he went water skiing.
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Over our short, yet enduring relationship, I found that he was desperately trying to reconcile his ambitions with his situation. I left and he continued to be unhappy, trying to "fix" what he now realized had been broken all along. In the end, a span of a
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Your tunamelt cadence / Sank me to ocean floors
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I caught sight of him standing near the nails.
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I'm rushing from the office, wanting to catch the 6.05, skittering down grey, commuter-laden streets, and I turn into the plaza and see the stupid fucking dancing couple. They are usually only there Fridays and weekends, catching the tourists on their way into Covent…
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"She has a lot of time to think these days. What else is a woman to do with the rest of her life?"
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Now, these explosions announced, political bribes and propaganda weren't going to be enough to push things through. There would need to be survival from blunt force trauma and fear tactics, a relentless forward march
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I am studying the way/
dust bunnies emerge, grow/
and apparently reproduce.
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For every person who dies alone that way, another twenty try.
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We are what we are, and that is zombies.
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A new constellation in the sweet hereafter.
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Once you descend, the third rail/
hums its invitation
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Bottom's up, mon cherie. On land, I'll grab mine with two hands. But in water, boy, I'm weightless and turning, a regular fish -- afloat, flopping, deboned.
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“still watersrun deep” is not my portionborn to make waves Formed from the ocean
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After becoming single at age 62, I joined an online dating site. After a year of perusing profiles and meeting men for coffee, staying single is starting to look better and better to me. But I've stayed on the site, in part for the pure enjoyment of…
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