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The Star of David

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Everybody in Amsterdam spoke English, and unlike the French, they didn't pretend that they didn't.

market your company now

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List all your business online now.go to www.geminimarketing.co.za if you are looking to sell your business online or advertise your business it is advisable to trywww.geminimarketing.co.za.you will get the best clientel there as we have got a lot of traffic…

My Children in Times New Roman

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This test should not be a riddle, it's a simple yes/no. The answer should settle curiosity with an image. One line or two, plus or minus. I say something like this, and the customer service rep asks me to hold.Thing is, I know the answer. I'm moody. My breasts feel like…

Peace-keeping (Valentine's Day Massacre Theme)

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So they told him he better get ready to join the army because that’s where it was at, for him. After all, not everybody could split coconuts with their hands.

Strange Fruit of Unrewarded Labor

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Poets are more like Jesus,/ suffering the cross

Some Kind of Change

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She was flying back in the morning, returning to a long-distance boyfriend I believed she had cheated on while she was here but didn’t ask about because I thought it would have been too obvious and somehow ungentlemanly.

Wishing Fountain

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People go through life all the time with only one kidney, or with some of their female-parts removed.

I Must Slip The Batman a Fin

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The Batman says it's his birthday. I take him at his word.

Gerade rechts zum Volkszimmer

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So, we are all healthy but suffering financially, not equally so, and the tendency to suffer financially has been caused by humbling ourselves to particular men. We take a quiz in moral values, phrased as a party game.

Baby Hater

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You leave your husband and go to the nursery at 2 a.m., painted so cute, go to them, and that’s the only place you want to be, and there’s no chance to leave, or trust they will be okay if you turn your back on them. They won’t. SIDS. Meningitis. A

Nietzsche

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The Poet

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...there is something quite delicious about the air between people strange to each other, something that makes my skin crackle alive with the possibility of touch...

Seventh Floor Ward

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Hers is the kind of crazy that can't be masked. She's worn it on her sleeves since tenth grade.

A Whole Forest Full of Leaves

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A response to Darryl Price's "Hello Is All There Is".

Eight States Away

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He boarded the wrong plane. (Hey, it could happen. Maybe not after 9/11, but certainly before)

New Questions of Travel

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Watching water fall in the longest waterfall/ becomes immediately tedious

The Basement of Desire

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sooner or later you realize

Statistics (or: Walking to Work through Lexington Market)

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I avert my gaze to the crab grass pushing through broken concrete, the spent condoms, the empty vodka nips rolling at her stockinged feet...

The Party

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My wife tells me I should marry Pam. “She would be good for you,” she says.

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

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Rothko explored horizons,/ blurring figure and ground/ by omitting the figure.

Sparrow Down

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There's no surcease from heat, no "cool of the evening," like the songs say about summer in the South. Those songwriters sat under fans in the Brill Building in downtown Manhattan.

Grace for Mao

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I greatly enjoyed imagining each wonton was one of my personal enemies and then biting it in half and pretending I could hear it screaming piteously as I chuckled and dragged out the chewing.

Great Moments in Blindness

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I am complicit in the darkness

Tadpoles

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Whole frogs are/ too difficult.

Cake

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A little poem

Cracking Open

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Her addiction started with dry roasted nuts, and quickly jumped to peanuts. At her worst, she was consuming a large glass jar of peanuts daily. She loved while hating their salty taste and greasy feel, the repetition of tossing them into her mouth. …

A Letter

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I write to you from waiting for the world to end. I will leave this in a desk drawer.

Like the Goats

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Madness

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I read my book of names. Over and over again. Our name appeared in the newspaper 254,991 times between 1896 and 1944.

Going Bananas

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I haven’t made the headlines yet. Maybe I never will. In a city like this, it probably takes more than this to get the helicopters in the air.