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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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Calm down, I wouldn’t classify this as a sex dungeon.
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One sunny morning, a big-bellied ball of yellow fur surveyed a yard full of prospective adopters and ran straight to one.
She’d been chosen.
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Our lives depend on/
engineers
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That evening I sat and watched the sunset. The color of the water changed from blue to black. The sky turned from pink to star-spangled ebony. There was no moon.
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whistling some blithering tune, trotting around the kitchen in his underwear with his ribs, a long row of meatless tragedies that screamed for something other than the meal he was making.
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One can watch the grass green/
in response. One can watch the world green/
in response.
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