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12. Paper Wings (Gillian Welch)
This one's really depressing. Maybe you shouldn't listen to it so much.
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Guys on safari wearing safari jackets shoot things all day, things with funny names …
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She could live there forever, in that smokey memory...
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to say that he was
doing fine
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15292110
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He grew red-faced at her quiet words, "I'm pregnant."
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12812118
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After the funeral there was a luncheon in the church basement.
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14932114
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I don't want / to write about the body indulged, desires / denied, tortures invented, pleasures innate
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A favorite place doesn't always offer comfort.
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You got a lot of people, out there
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1080219
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Polite society will cheer/
as another body is discovered//
and disposed of. The cheers/
will drown out the gasps
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11542011
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The suite of dark rooms/
extends forever./
It’s no big deal.
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16162016
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It was Gatlinburg in mid July
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12652016
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The custard of eternity is scooped into
the quantum cone of knowledge and drips
out the bottom one lifetime at a time.
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19222013
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I love to lie when discovered. "I'm your new neighbor." "The landlord sent me." "I'm the ghost of the girl who died on the 11th floor." "I fell from the sky." I wear billowing white dresses and a wide-brimmed straw hat that throws my face into shadow. Peo
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644206
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...the bulk of poets are amateurs.
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11492010
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Practice has perfected disengagement.
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16452021
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Nights like this don’t happen often, nights when I wander the streets of an unknown village, dark and quiet streets that offer little in the way of diversion.
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11902015
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I said, “Marcy, Source Almanac is a guide for the Apple.”
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14292010
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The contrast can be summed up in a sip.
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14862013
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You died from a bad heart.
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15082018
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14742018
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They are all sleeping, but I know better. I will keep watch and if he comes tonight I will be alert and ready. When he arrives he'll see the slack mouths, the graceless sprawls, hear the grunts, snorts and snores of the other women and then he'll sense me. My eyes will…
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15592019
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if we stare into the dark long
enough, we see ourselves at some end or
beginning –
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1765208
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There's a special block in the city, nestled between Mutant Town and Trump Towers.
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Their bodies, ripe uncovered flesh, had begun to erode, the edges of their limbs and cores bitten, taken by the wind in small pieces, flaking and tearing, some parts sliding, falling away.
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We construct a paper bridge. The droid walks across it. We follow, one after another, like sentences in a story.
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12192014
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the doomed, but splendid,
first year GT40.
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1569204
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It's supposed to resemble the sea bed. These fish have never seen the outside of an aquarium and even if they had, they are reef fish, they'd probably get the bends and die if they went to the bottom of the ocean where the chances of them finding a cerami
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