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Toting a sawed-off shotgun at the altar
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She slouched on one hip, scribbled on the order pad. “How do you like your eggs?”
“I like them very much.”
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Some folks say your hands can tell the story of your life. Well, my hands cain't talk, but they've made so many pies, I bet they could do it themselves if you cut 'em off and gave 'em the right ingredients, I sure do.
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A motivational speaker I know intimately cannot abide any form of swearing.
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He’s hooked on the pinball / excitements of adolescence
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When I walked into the local police precinct to meet with a detective about the scope of my rights, I was thinking about Rocco, the adored dog of a long-ago life.
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Then the moon cried real white tears.
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In a rousing show of support for guns and the owners who love them, the Legislature passed and Governor Greg Abbott gleefully signed a law proclaiming April 15 as Take Your Gun to Work Day in Texas.
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They may have heard parts of it, the memoir in me. Then I took a trip—to New York, though they wouldn't have known where—and when I returned, I was entirely mum unless I had the phone with me.
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Night fell and the photographer slept, one hand between Prue's legs.
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"...they ran shirtless like pagans under southern stars."
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Moving is like moving upstream, like swimming underwater against a mighty current. You are salmon people: pink, vulnerable.
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Even solid seeming concrete creeps/
in time to form the faint smile of deflection./
A marble rolls along the catenary grin.
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My round belly is deflating. I disappear a little more by the day. It's been weeks. Soon, I may not even be here.
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Didn't Max Perkins die, like they said?
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What I wanted was long-in-the-sheets sex...
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...her touch held such wisdom that it put babies to sleep...
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Accept that your husband's heart always belonged to his first love. You should've noticed sooner because she works in your building and won't look you in the eye. She takes the stairs because you ride the elevator.
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The story of my life/
would put insomniacs to sleep.
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You say boxer briefs, I say pillbox hats
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Each death a sonnet, every grief / fourteen lines.
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TRAVELING NORTH Though you are dead now. Though I walk covered in dust through this strip mall in Iowa. I remember the collection of tendencies that led me here. The flat landscape. The blazing heat of cornfields. The landscape and body are one…
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On the eve of celebrating their patron saint at the public house, one of his particularly cabbaged mates was bold enough to ask him about his cranial deformity.
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With such demeaning precarity, I can’t read/
anything more than a thousand words
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I walk by the hotel where Esenin hanged himself.
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It was in the last expulsion/explosion (theories differ) that we became OneWith. Tsunami. Seism. Zud. All matter cast out outcast came back like a gangster on crack. What did it think it was? Who do we think we are? It thinks we think it thinks…
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