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Regime is elected officials ignoring constituents, ignoring protestors, ignoring history
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I enjoy the walk through these crowded woods. It's good to be back among deeply seated young and old trees again. That familiar smell, you want to always savor it so very much, to not deny any of it. It smells like a blue sky, the…
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Smoke is pouring outta my ears! (And outta my mouth and nostrils, but that's normal.) The Fast-o-matic Supermart has changed their coupons. Now you can't swap them for plastic surgery. So all those tubes of New Orleans-style Cottil-i-Lard dog sausage…
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If I wrote a war novel my wife would be killed off before our relationship figured out our differences. Like her being really Asian and me being just so-so Asian.
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Why don't we do it in a yellow submarine?
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And right there beside me
That single wobbling
Snail-like trail of my heavy
French Horn case
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We exist to facilitate/
successful conclusions of hopeless lives.
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We walk in silence. We water our plants. We don’t eat as well as we should. We try to love. We try to forget.
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The officers carried him away in cuffs as he yelled "I NEED STATS! PLEASE! JUST GIVE ME THE STATS!"
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This is what it is to feel yourself forget.
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Lullaby for a dragon baby who breaks the bough with bottled fists escapes the armored cradle stealing swords from terra cotta men to slash the Ming canopy and loose the butterflies that will free
Ho Chi Minh from the fire.
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Used to be I'd keep busy. Dreadful the time I spend sitting, standing, staring. I lose track, now. I believe it's because he died. It gets hold of me. I'll see him half on half off his bed, a plaid blanket angled over his back and legs, held…
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Lucy entered the open door next; she had been inside the cat litter house before: Brother Fran didn’t bother to cover turds he’d laid. He spoke of the outdoors: lizards he’d separated from their heads, world of work.
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"[A]ppointed an official supplier of watches for the Ministry of Defence of the Soviet Union in 1965."
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I have the right to remain silent. If I waive that right everything I say can and will be used against me like a razor dragged across my neck.
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She pulled the book off its shelf. It meant something else now. He'd quote her in the mirror, at the backs of buses that kept her moving, something she'd said without saying. He would remember for them. She'd forget, without him, the way she wanted. Garland and lights were…
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I suppose the lazy trees would have a thing or two to say about love
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When God blessed creation, a ewe gave birth to Adam. When he cursed Satan, Eve hatched from a crocodile's egg.——In naming the animals, Adam marked them for death. His own name was a slow fire. Eve's was an inferno.——In the shelter of the Tree of…
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It is equally likely that just as the rate of melt continues, the rate of melt will also continue to accelerate.
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Space, blank, uninterrupted, but then a fissure, a crack, a corridor, and down it you're walking.
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and the President didn't call.
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In and out of morphine dreams, he flies through the unfinished roof of Illinois sky. Below, matchbox-sized farm machines. A silo becomes his father's thermos, the silver-capped tower from which he stole sips at ten, his first secret. Back …
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Anyone thinking they aren’t alone on life’s journey has their head up their ass.
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...a headwater stream that has never had a name....
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I try to keep myself from weeping.
We are all actors in a bad dream,
that doesn’t go away in the morning
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A lowing cow cracked open the darkened room like the yawn of a gravid alien.
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Start with a long look down the alley, a small hoodied figure turning in.
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I'm not sure if he's right or not but he has a gorgeous smile, he's charmingly self confident, and he's very persuasive.
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Sometimes you have to go wild; you have just to go fucking nuts. You do.
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The Judge waited for the perfect wave.
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