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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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[T]he Thwaites Glacier . . . still exists as of August 2021, though probably with at least five hundred and twenty fewer gigatons of ice mass than in August 2011.
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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.
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—Pretty tulips, said the woman.
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I am not a gun, but I think I may have pulled a plastic movie trigger in some kind of real world action before, accelerated, pivotal scene, one way or another before, this new frame came into its paranoid view .You see? I am not a plastic water bottle,but I…
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I’ve previously tried the old-fashioned route to get my books reviewed, calling up editors, asking friends who work at newspapers and magazines to put in a good word for me, stalking . . . I mean, contacting freelancers.
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Did they do it in pairs or all at the same time?
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These are the three facts of my life.
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“I was looking for the review of the Alvin Ailey dance company when I noticed something in the sports pages,” says the 300-pound center. “All of a sudden it hit me–I should have been playing football."
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That's demeaning enough, but not as hard to take as the customers. They're all jaded hipsters, thumb diddling smartphone freaks, pretending their online interactions actually count as relationships and that “tweets” are real conversations. It's sad, reall
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[...] in the living room above the fire, someone had gouged a letter A on the wall.
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Brazilian girls yammer
with their book bags
up against my leg.
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Fritz Lang. Even before I ever met the miserable son of a bitch, with his monocle and superior airs, I hated him. In person, he was an insufferable asshole.
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We’ve clicked/
and tapped ‘til dawn/
and our exhaustion meet,
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Polylinguists lash me
with tongues I cannot conjugate
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It’s been stored away in the cedar chest since my mother put it there in the early 60’s, well, 1962 to be exact. She was a careful woman, but over these many years the bow has flattened, and the wind-up parts have corroded some from non-use. Oh, the
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