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It's so nice
to be under something else's power
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People huddle in their basements like kittens. People laugh, darkly, saying they'd rather be surfing. People wonder if their batteries are charged. People never do get what they want. People grow tired of the sad dog following them around. People want you to know how…
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Lately he's been wanting to write about love...
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Every time they said Gloria I turned around but of course they meant Gloria Steinem.
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When I was miranda and my mother Rose, ours was a skinless intimacy. miranda in Rose's womb, captured in an essence of love, anger, frustration, fear, the overwhelming stress of Rose's life heavy syrup that kept the bond between spirit and body weak and
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I felt/
no need to show what I had made/
to anybody else.
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“White,” he says. -- “Black,” I answer.
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his dreams are filled / with aprons
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We are not alone, not as alone as we think.
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The man is not happy at home. When he sees his wife or his son, he
knows that he should be, but he is not.
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It's a business, after all, all are quick to remind us. True dat, and the sun always rises in the east and sets in the west, and death and taxes...yup yup, we know. We get it.
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Sleep shall take you where plutonium
Stars the drinking pools with light.
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This is not a story you expect to end at Cape Horn.
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Nothing has changed//
except the toys and fashion.
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He's Eric Roberts, the stalker and eventual killer in Star '80.
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On the bus I sat like an ounce.
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She wants to be an apple on a stick, a mop and handle, a brain attached to bones.
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“There’s an ill energy that emanates
from your precise heart that I find attractive”
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She asked if I needed to be measured for size “to make sure they feel really good on you,” her lips all gloss and smile. I was nineteen and knew my size but changes in weight had caused fluctuations before so maybe I'd be different…
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Borges must be so proud somewhere
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Co-written with Bobbie Ann Mason
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Its intelligence won’t be/
diminished when you take/
a bone saw to its cranium
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Your writing offended the editors greatly, and we would select certain word choices we disliked, but we truly hated every word, including mere articles, prepositions, and conjunctions.
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Oh what fun they had riding that bike! What adventures! They went everywhere, in town and out.
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As soon as she left, I sat down at the computer. Booted up. Read my e-mail, then looked at pictures of bare-naked ladies.
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There are two kinds of stupid in the world of smoking. The first kind includes anyone who smokes – knowing well that it is likely to cause terrible pain at a later point in their lives. The second kind includes the people who tell the first kind that sm
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