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But it was a necessary evil and one he’d made peace with, easy to do when he arrived home each day to the comforting touch of his wife, his home.
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I have bathed in patchouli oil and my heavy hair is lustrous from brushing. I am wearing my gold ankle bracelets with the ruby charms that my love gave me when we had been married one year. My robe is fuchsia silk and under it I wear black satin…
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I had the distinct feeling she was telepathic. As that thought crossed my mind, she smiled broadly and returned my quizzical stare. It caught me off guard, wasn't what I expected.
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This is the story of the man whose wife lived in his neck. Every morning, he would turn to her and say, "Hello, Sweetheart. How was your night?" and she would answer, Brilliant! What else?
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“Mescaline occurs naturally in our bodies, you know,” I said.
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The knife that precedes the bigger knife that precedes the spoon that precedes the flat fork, with stuff like that I'm all butterfingers, & even though he's never been to Italy except once to shoot a gun when the world was a great big jumble, he remembers all…
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proving little more/
than the player’s keyboard dexterity.
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By morning it was over. I crawled farther out onto the ledge. The three year old was screaming like Donald Duck. Trains ran into the night. Several pigs entered the open window.
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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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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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