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I don't remember much before my brother moved out, but one thing that stands out in my mind was the bathroom we shared. He'd pull a stool up to…
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My first love was a woman of principle. Never deny your man was her motto.
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I like the cool and dark beneath my rock./
It protects me from the glare and scorch/
of noonday sun and the chilling shadows/
of midnight moon.
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Rasheed changes his mind about working for me. He can't bring himself to break with Uzma. The bond between them is too strong. I admire his loyalty, to her and to her parents. Don turns out to be my most reliable ally. Plus, he brings a ragtag security force with…
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I told her I didn't love her. She said love wasn't important; she wanted to marry a man she could respect.
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to us! Without it we are less than human and cannot guarantee your safe passage through our woods any more. Give us back the moon. It is the primary element in the makeup of our deepest breaths taken to invoke all cycles to continue. It contains…
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I remember, when I was selling real estate, how you could always tell when there'd been a divorce. One room was conspicuously left emptied of its contents, and these rooms were never swept or tidied. Instead they were left just as they were when the par
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The dictator, what'sisface, was crazy nuts.
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Things have changed since they strutted the gritty streets of the Lower East Side with Blondie and the gang.
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Who puts Vaseline
on the forefinger
of Lenin?
I want to know
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Rainy eyes fall fast somewhere
close to me
Riding the wind like lust
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I like it best when I wake up
And the wild rain of dreaming ends.
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What grabbed the mind when you heard about it was the way he did it.
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Her father stuffed years worth of stories into the phone, a sort of begging: how the new dog rode in the golf cart and retrieved lost Pinnacles; how the garage’s rent was too expensive; how the doctor gave him new pills and how he had lost weight and cu
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We used to smile when we saw the other smile.
We used to laugh just at the sound of our laughter.
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It wasn't the same as taking a course with Ginsberg. Everyone knew Ginsberg. Nick Cave, too, everyone knew him. Waiting lists were full months in advance for those classes, everyone sent in resumes and writing samples, praying, begging to be included. Lish was just an…
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I never killed a cop before.
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I am beginning to worry. There is something that they are not telling me. I am afraid that something bad is going to happen.
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Lapping salt beads from/
my crackling, ecstatic lips.
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Carthage, Rome subdued:/itself, Rome never long tamed./Memento mori.
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It was fun, until he started winning every time.
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Cinema Verite’ is the best book of poems I have encountered since Matthea Harvey’s Modern Life
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So when they shake a finger, when they yell, she remembers Miss Whalen saying, “It’s not for keeps.”
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He is drilling the door of a safe to access the keys he locked inside.
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... and you can’t balance your checkbook or divide a three-way bill in a restaurant but you can still recite all the sixteen ways of SHAUN CASSIDY TELLS: 16 WAYS TO TURN ME ON!
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Half way through our cigarettes she told me her name was Charlotte.
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Sand underfoot.It's raining I say …
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I called it Nirvana and Elysium
I called it Bountiful
I called you to come forward
Without counting.
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As a boy I fished under the Tappan Zee bridge which spans the Hudson River above New York City.
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