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				Class differences in New York (and if you believe F. Scott Fitzgerald, in America, generally) are best viewed from the beach. 
					
				 
				
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				When I was eight years old, I stepped into / a snow bank in Pennsylvania and sank / in over my head 
					
				 
				
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				The monarchs that migrate to Mexico and California in the autumn every year live for only a month.  
					
				 
				
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				...fancy the idea of tapas, Spain an' all. 
					
				 
				
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				i could make swamp boys believe / under dust-sheets stiffened by ice 
					
				 
				
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				I put my mouth to it and said hello hello hello. 
					
				 
				
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				Do you suppose you could make your female protagonist a salamander rather than a human?   
					
				 
				
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				The diagnosis was peculiar, the doctors agreed, / but so was the condition 
					
				 
				
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				I will gobble them like tiny men, missions and things to prove. 
					
				 
				
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				I would fly drones with hydrochloric acid sprays/
over their squadrons and watch the disfigurement/
begin. I love disfigurement... 
					
				 
				
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				Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air, 
					
				 
				
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				The planet will be fine without us as it was/
when the Permian extinction made the goo/
that made the Rockefellers wealthy. 
					
				 
				
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				A landscape has the tendency to take on new dimensions when night comes.  
					
				 
				
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				Later I take his hand, and I lead him up the stairs.  I want to show him something, I say.  
					
				 
				
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				You just can’t believe your key / won’t open the front door anymore. 
					
				 
				
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				His head was usually full of ah ha!, a luminescence that folded around obstacles like smoke. 
					
				 
				
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				Clayton had a grin like the hand of a beast that stretched as long as her gravel road... 
					
				 
				
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				looking space packed right in up therelike a sun bleached kite stuck in between  the several bluish colorsof the sky today has its ownamazing heartbeat. I can seeit clearly from here. Oh I can feel it  reverberating for miles andmiles. If I look away it… 
					
				 
				
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				A woman’s hair is her crowning glory, my grandmother always said. 
					
				 
				
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				Does flight exhilarate the sparrows 
					
				 
				
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				Gasps and shouts, a hand on my arm, sequined gowns and expensive colognes parting before me. And then, there, Raymond’s crumpled form on the hardwood floor of the foyer, like a sleeve torn from a jacket, the stitches frayed and useless. 
					
				 
				
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				I watched as the light fled 
from your eyes,  
No slowly dimming lamp,
 
					
				 
				
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				When last June V.S. Naipaul remarked "women writers are different, they are quite different. I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. I think [it is] unequal to me...My publisher, who was so good as a 
					
				 
				
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				Now when she speaks to him, he no longer responds with an interrogative but rather a cheery, "You're absolutely right, dear" or "I'll get right on it," or "What a great idea!" 
					
				 
				
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				Last summer our marriage took a direct hit and crashed into a deep pit with little warning when Millicent met a Facebook man and simply left, taking up with him, presenting him with my space in her life to receive her touch and this thought perpetually gnaws away, making me… 
					
				 
				
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				Man waters Earth with his eyes. 
					
				 
				
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				He would lean on his window sill in the evening and watch the whores.  They wore gaudy clothes and too much makeup. 
					
				 
				
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