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but let's stop and take another look at things
could it be through our closed eyes
that we didn't really know what we were talking about
that there never was a surprise
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At some point, indifference//
will swallow the small gasps./
The appalling will become the norm.
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But tonight the circus is dark. She is free to go to her lover, to embrace, to float in the night sky.
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They left me on a gurney for hours...
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“Is your husband abusive?” the therapist asks. Therapy is Kerry’s secret.
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From the way she scooped him from his buggy, shushed him, kissed his tears and hugged him...
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She waves her hand around, says, “Pah!” and starts digging invisible things out of the potato salad with her bare hands.
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She looked up, blinked. Fuck are you? I shook my head. Nobody you’ll remember, I said.
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I told him he was just paying for his sins. He gave me a look. "Why me?" he asked.
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Why was the broom late for work?
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I forgot how masterful you are, way better than a pickpocket. After our meeting, I drove home with one hand. It felt funny but I figured I'd absentmindedly put the other in my purse or tossed it into the backseat with my jacket. In my…
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"leaves &damage, &shifts of shape"
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When I finally met the time broker, he sat at an antiquated mahogany desk with no computer. He looked up and waited for me to speak. "Time for sale," his ad had advertised, and I was ready to pay
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Together / they peeled and fed each other pink fruit, / ordered expensive pink beef, went on / vacations and viewed pink sunsets / on paradise beaches.
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The courts had scheduled the date long ago but the time, an hour always left to the warden, had yet to be decided.
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March 16, 2006 My mail, e-mail, and phone calls go from the ridiculous to the sublime. Apologies for the cliché, but I can't resist its perfect applicability: In my mailbox today yet another catalogue of boob jobs in bikinis and an invitation to explore…
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It could be fun,/
with the guns, explosives, Molotov/
Cocktails and all,
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Squirrels and mice fear her shadow
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hoping for a happy outcome/
like a kindly voice on the line
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For a few/
vivid weeks, deciduous shrubs and trees/
will seem to glow like flames and embers
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I always step around his mess...
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I don’t name the dog but the fish requires a name. Animals that do not get eaten must be named. The dog is still on the menu.
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There once was a girl who was lost in a storm. She wandered this way and that, this way and that, trying to find a way home. But the sky was too dark, and the rain too fierce; all the girl did was go in circles.
Then, suddenly, there were arms around her
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Let’s face it, there are simply too many things too know these days.
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Why is the sky grey he asked meI don't know, I saysudden flashes of light snowbloat the cloudssea gulls are squawkingexpect them to peck at my headI have nothing to feed them
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She hardly twitches. Her face regards the stars. If her body is an object, it is the isthmus before global warming.
They want to find the source of the glacier in her eyes that is always melting. Maybe they like a woman who cries.
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She had loved sleeping in Todd’s arms at night, hearing the soft tinkle of crystal above her when cool drafts moved through the house, his hand wandering over the swell of her belly.
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