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Real Estate

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He drove down there in his truck the second time. Didn't want to get anywhere near that snooty car of hers.

The Sun Eaters

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And in the end, when there was nothing left and we all had come to look like whispers, we ate the sun.

Wife

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What used to be a scene has broken into fragments and blips of her on a screen I can’t control or manipulate.

Shoebox

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They lie down in the prairie grass and clutch each other, imagine dying under fat clouds.

On the Way to Your First AA Meeting

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The memory of thinking in some other language

Temporary Passport

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It is late in the twentieth century and I'm on my hands and knees for you.

Things I Should Have Done - #4

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I should have created a first-date questionnaire heartaches ago.

Vigil

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You have arrived at the river, numb with the murmur of the city and the sleeplessness of anger, boredom, and too many people loving too many people too much. The heat in this night, not the moon as in ancient poems, is blazing; the moon is pink like the…

Shooter

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After the shooting, they sent the boy away. He returned taller and heavier, a sulkier version of his earlier self.

Confessions of an I.R.A. Terrorist

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Most of us are just ordinary mutts with no gift for writing, nothing like Joyce James [or] any of those...

Sweet Sounds of Home

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Father makes sure the rum is safe, and still down, on his ass, he unscrews the top and takes a slug, and then a second one.

A Night of Not Knowing

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I lie here sleepless and wait for the moment when I will touch...

Florida

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In her paper, Emmeline compares Mary Todd Lincoln's crazy, which involved spending lots of money and going to séances, with her Aunt Janine's, which involves wearing cowgirl outfits and running with strange men.

Them

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If I had been a cat you probably would have kept me forever, even with an incurable disease. I think about that every time I clean the litter pan, especially late at night.

Rome Ants In The Sky

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Headstone

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On the ground deputies comb the back roads. Border Patrol scouts from the air

Gymnopédie Set

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The streets have terrible breath, it’s said, and everyone hides but the young, who have slick, naked shoulders and fragrant tobacco shreds in the linings of their empty pockets.

Spaghetti Woman

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She was fast as the wind and lived on air, her clothes a size 0000.

Mister Fix-It

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Lined up like ghosts on the front lawn, the second-hand porcelain fixtures had embarrassed her.

Responsible

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This morning, she woke to the banshee: “Individuals must get up early and put in a full day’s work in this economy!”

Turbidity

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Where seldom is heard an encouraging word

Supergirl

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"It's what being out of work does to you, " she said, with that innocent sense of the everyday tragic, that kind murmur.

The Tightrope Walker's Demonstration: Coming Out

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"Oh, abracadabra," she muttered.

The Look

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He looks in silence and he looks with longing.

Three Micros

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He'll tell you if you listen long enough the words run together like the teeth of a zipper.

See?

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Arise, ye masses, arise!

17 Days

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Sometimes, under the gauze and yellow salves, I glimpse you...

Sinister Age of the Draft

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The so-called good, a weak but whiny lot, who actually clung to that abstract of "justice for all," would tattle to Mrs. Pufry...Mzzz Puffy, she hit me...Mzzz Puffy he said the bad word...Mzzz Puffy, I gotta go...Mzzz Puffy, Thomas is hanging in the cloak

Big English

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I hit the pole near Whited Avenue a year to the day.

A Forest

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Her mind was full of fresh air and swung like a bee over clover.