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You, the correct Other, the one I am looking for, you have exacting standards concerning where things must go.
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but all I can give them now are air hugs
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Lying in the dewy grass in corpse pose, the stars of heaven above him, it was hard not to let worries take over his breath...
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Life, like a kite string, is slipping out of
your hands
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Henry yells at her when she lights cigarettes and candles. But this is her small secret ritual, her way of making good with the god she is no longer sure she believes in...
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I am abandoned to the mundane/
calculations of a small mind/
trapped by small considerations
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There's an orangutan riding an elephant that spots a hound dog.
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We met an old friend and his old dog. We went off leash on the lush Buffalo grass. He and I—this old friend, I mean—talked mostly of divorce, something we shared between us.
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Every Monday you brought your Sunday finest to the bus stop...
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It's as if there are little men inside her head, wielding hammers.
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I choose my words carefully, “Dogs love to chase squirrels, squirrels hate being chased by dogs. It’s a pattern that results in both dogs and squirrels being frustrated.”
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The missions never change:/
To plant a bed of fast-blooming/
Flowers of annihilation/
Across an unspecific plain.
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He and I are still and somber at the kitchen table. We’re both wearing black and stare at each other through blood-shot eyes. The children’s thumps echo on the ceiling above. I think about the other family’s children.
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Pa grasps my fingers, odd because he's never held my hand and he's dead ten years anyway.
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We deny one another, here,/
as long as it’s plausible.
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The painting was on loan from a gallery in Chicago. We stood there connecting the dots.
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The man is wiry and jumpy. There is a tattoo on his upper arm of Charles Manson. He jumps and jumps. He looks like a man on a pogo stick. He will not stop jumping.
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"Bit of a shrinkage situation."
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We know them just enough/
to recognize them when we find them.
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She stepped out of her panties. She spread her arms wide. "Take me!" she sang.
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Death came to my street, but I did not invite him.
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We all got married — Suzanne, and Virginia, and I — and it was all we ever wanted to be at the time.
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Down cellar, my father showed me where he kept his beer stash. It was in a cubbyhole under the bulkhead, where Mom never thought to look.
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Alice writes three different versions of the letter. The last one is the most tempered, the most like her, but still it is such an unlike-her thing to do. The couple who lives above her has been disrupting her sleep nearly every night for the past three weeks. The woman's…
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An Ayurvedic astrologer tells her that she is a child of India. Is a girl born in Indiana a mistake of just two letters on a Scrabble board?
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'Hey, are you supposed to be from a cartoon or something?' said the Grim Reaper. I had to take a big drink before I could reply. I didn't know what to say, so I said 'Could I see your watch, please?' He looked down my dress while he thought about it.
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Good buddy Jesus./
Life coach Jesus. Enthusiastic//
and optimistic Jesus, no cross/
or crown of thorns in sight.
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I made him stop at an AM-PM. We bought a bag of barbecue chips and a yellow rose. Those days, we were testing our keels, sloshing against whatever rose most wicked. On the way to Beth Anne's apartment, we passed a man on the shoulder heaving a couch back
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Sue Ellen walked on. “You were thinking about me -- I saw you.”
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