1374 20 12
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burnt-up leaves rustle and fall
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1186 20 11
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Reality for us must be broken so we can fix the one small insect of it we can capture and pin, wriggling.
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1951 20 11
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...falling into that breathing abyss, and she can feel her heart pounding against it. A falling and falling that’s never ending. Frightening. How hard the thump will be if ever she lands. The darkness continues to breathe all around her.
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My glasses fog up every time I go to collect her from the pool. I'll never get used to glasses. When my sight got suddenly worse the day she was born, I didn't tell anyone. As she turned from baby to child, my love for her grew, and my world got smaller,
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2211 20 13
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disorderly black squirrels / inhabit upper Michigan
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1745 20 13
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I heard today about your friend
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1404 20 14
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In the bearded sun, I see a golden goat.
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3100 20 11
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Maybe you should consider a few more things before embarking upon actual rescue, like: Is the victim hot? Not stove hot, idiot. Beauty hot. Will this be a triumph to save this person (like perhaps they are some Nobel laureate), or are you risking you
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895 20 12
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I say her- it might be him-/
but from a distance I supply the details I prefer.
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1284 20 8
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Phoebe-Lou Adams wrote this of them
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1483 20 11
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...he thought often of the rollicking waves, of being pulled under, of being weightless and senseless...
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989 20 11
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There was a form to it, not reproduction. I wanted to write Moby Dick without a man in it. [I wanted to write Moby Dick with only a woman in it.] But I didn't do it. It's like a seven-year diary, and it did happen. I might write it as memory then.
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1368 20 5
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He tells me that only a few things had happened in his life but some of them he had felt deeply.
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1559 20 12
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I drove to you in April / and you loved me all through Illinois
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1624 20 15
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The tailfins of our ’57 Plymouth Fury dip and rock from the stress: Three boys—say no more?—jumping into the car. And Dad, loading suitcases into the trunk, working them around the steel cooler heavy with Cokes, root beers, ice. He slams the trunk lid dow
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1913 20 8
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Writers, hopeful ones, hopeless ones, poets and petty penmen, worked as bartenders, librarians, substitute teachers, anything.
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1387 20 18
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1296 20 11
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We invent our beauties//
as we find them and engineer/
our horrors
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1891 20 14
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The ethnographer turns on a recorder. The story began before but that is lost, like it never happened.
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1927 20 9
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My son thinks he's French.His accent was cute at first, but it's starting to get on my nerves. If he asks for another glass of Beaujolais I'm gonna go to jail for child abuse.Yesterday, I walked upstairs to make him turn his new Jacques Brel album down and I swear it…
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1302 20 11
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When the car arrived, Kitty bounded out, lipstick-stained cigarette dangling, silver hair tightly teased. We could not escape her hug, smelling of peppermint and Aqua-Net and Jean Nate.
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1520 20 13
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I sprinkle seaweed over the water and all twelve rise to feed. Two of them went down the hole but knew to come up. A toilet has mouths and caverns, not a bad place at all for fish.
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1468 20 8
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The music, Antonín Dvořák's 'New World Symphony,' the second movement, 'Largo,' immediately alters my mood.
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1413 20 9
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Leaves dance their way down,unfazed by this September heat. Bus stop routines set already-summer ended years ago.A chipmunk scampers undera parked truck while once againthe young man does his morning…
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1573 20 3
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“This is the most dangerous road in the world and you want to drive down it. You crazy,” he said.
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1492 20 13
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A tiny story, 55 words, just enough to fit on a . . .
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2003 20 15
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I tell my friend, the animal lover, not to get too near the panther's cage. "Why not?" she asks. "You'll see," I say.
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1098 20 12
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Our ironies don’t make us happy
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1388 19 14
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Sure, to a teacher, life is a paper / but what would life be to a druggist?
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4208 19 12
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It was a sore molar that was giving me trouble, on the bottom right. The dentist, about whose adulterous affairs everybody in the neighborhood knew and whispered about, ts-ts-ts'ed me and murmured "decay" before pulling out the drill.
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