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Christine comes back from the future looking tired, which is the opposite of what I expected. For some reason, I imagined the future as being invigorating. But she walks into the apartment and abandons her suitcase by the front door, collapses into a heap on the couch next…
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I still want to kill Allan, because he now is unseen
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There's a mirror in front of me and I thought it was so I could see myself, but I didn't want to see me.
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I am experience and information//
at a small but irredeemable remove.
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Unless we see it, probe it,
Name it, star by star, and feel
This awful, tenuous gratitude.
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Under nervously flickering fluorescent lights / your name will grow / fed by the tongues of Those Who Never Leave
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When I died, she said, she was going to have me cremated and put my ashes in the cats’ litter box.
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Warning: contains sexually suggestive comments.
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Sometimes you can't sleep.
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no one likes a bitchy cowboyhike up yer britchespull yer brim down'nshut up and ridestop making petsout of peevesand idolsout of gossipinsteadmake a hobbyout of yer horseand fer godsakesseason that saddle
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you escape by finding the bubbles
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....the first/
in a long history of indignities.
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Unapproachable... for all that.
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I shuddered. This is how we are chosen
by strange and silent hands.
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Cahill—Dr. Cahill to those who knew him in his small town in Maine—had decided that his screened porch should be relocated. Wouldn't it be better to winterize the current porch, adding a door at the far end which would lead to a new, smaller porch,…
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He'd hung above her head for months.
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Our disappearance would register/
as the movement of a sand grain/
on a windy beach full of sand.
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They teach that emotional pain is physical pain, culture pain is science pain, but they cannot test for the absence of these synaptic conclusions. I will say, if you can test me and find something missing then you can supplement me for the missing thing.
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Confused, I paused and locked eyes with the girl who’d just bounced it with the long, dark hair. “I just saw you with it.”
She stared back at me. “Do you see it in my hands now?”
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fire rolls through
the drive-thru
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...when she spoke, her voice still seemed to spill bourbon from a heavy crystal tumbler, and drift cigarette smoke in a dark paneled room.
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Two stories, limestone, gray shutters,next to the park.“We almost bought that house,” my father always saideach time we drove by.He doesn't go down that street anymore.What could have been taunts him from the sidewalks —two little girls and a bucket of…
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Lavender, a Liberal Betty, batty from hormones, in a fanciful fit, named her daughter Lavender. Husband Don winced. Brothers Donald, John, Billy, and Tom were puzzled and pleased by this sister, this girl, who was a little bit like them, yet not like them at…
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I'm panicking trying to think of the next line in this poem
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A wrinkled old woman sat at the table next to me. “Are you a writer?” she asked.
“Yes, I am.”
“Are you Jewish?”
“No, I’m not,” I replied.
“Where do you come from?” she asked in her broken English.
“Chicago,” I said. “The Bohemian ghetto there, o
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There are simply no more words around me quite full enough yet to sort of cancel outthese more than emptied ones. I'm sorry. There might be some forever fields left ofcrowded purple flowers if you look hard enough but no mountain's majestyto…
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Is there a recipe for / lasting happiness?
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