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stinking nightgown

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Frank says if I eat the whole bowl of live crickets he’ll give me five dollars and his grandfather’s silver bullet from the war.

A heart that is not broken...

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She'd had every reason to believe he'd be difficult, though he wasn't.

I’m Afraid You May Have Made Some

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awfully evil decisions upstairs in your head that could come back to haunt you in your later years;I'm here to report your zooming about hair isn't really one of them. You have found the infernal wheel works in all four directions at once. Good for you.…

Precipitants

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we’ll never win/ the ongoing battle with dirt.

Michelle from Southport

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True story, I swear to God.

Day Off Work

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My time glass allocation nears its end.

A Short Film About Baseball

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The throw was the last leg of a triple play.

Lost

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“It’s lost. Lost and gone. Forever. My love for you. I’m sorry.”

Picnic Jugs

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The car was a two-tone black and white Chevy...

Why I Write

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Creep up behind me one day and prick my skin. I promise you won’t draw blood – for it is ink that will spurt from my veins.

Blackish by Reason of the Ice

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"Sara, do you taketh it with your eyes?"

Ladies' Day At Sam's Place

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I'm warming my stool at the far end of the bar as usual, nursing my fourth draft on a balmy Wednesday afternoon when I lock eyes with this lady who's bashing her head through the front door. You've heard the expression, “50-yard fox,” right? —Looks…

Bunker

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Dressed as an English professor on Halloween I escape the red devil and run downtown. I go to the Art Car hangar I dance, I swing my golden brown briefcase

I'm Hoping, I'm Reaching

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I'm hoping, I'm reaching, I'm scratching the sky...

Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra and A Nice Hot Bath: What I Learned From Magazines This Week

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Actress Rita Moreno wakes up humming.People (5/1/17)Riding a roller coaster with your partner makes you more attractive to each other. People (5/1/17)The image on the commemorative stamp the Central African Republic recently issued to honor film legend Marilyn Monroe…

Forever KAP

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She mustn't...

Impotent

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A spire that had stood one hundred and forty years fell in a single second of the blackest day.

Male Pattern Invocation

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in the much more terrorizing display/ of male pattern stupidity// as seen so often on TV/ in the House and at Fox News.

A Breviary

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Whistle for silence.

Old Joke

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How many exceptional people/ does it take to change a light bulb?

Dashboard Jesus

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When I first started this, a few months ago, I was timid about looking people in the eye.

Dealing with Sudden Melancholy

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Someone who I know only via Facebook and a writer site we both belong to posted a picture of a 12 week old fetus in the palm of a human hand. The message was anti-abortion. You know--how can you consider killing this baby? And the picture was of a tiny, tiny…

Widow Walk

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She heads toward the end of the island and doesn't look back.

Through windows dimly lit

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Burren-grey, the sky through sky lights is cigarette ash smashed across July.

Buddha in the backyard

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He sits ...

Upon a Time

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then all crawl out from the wreckage to begin a dance lasts all night so by morning we'll be tired surprised we're still upright

From The Island Of Final Regrets

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A friend of mine recently died and went to Heaven, or so I innocently thought. It was only when I received a letter a month later postmarked “The Island of Final Regrets” that I realized he was still in transit.

God on Paddy's Night.

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Paddy's night arrived in the manner of finding a half torn fiver, initial anticipation usurped by disappointment before a chancer's edge suggested some craic might ensue after all. A great crowd had gathered somewhere else, for under Hill street bridge…

Godot, Go Wait Yourself!

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a bone-crusher handshake

Polaroids at the Old Place

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Can I still be in your pictures?