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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.
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They lie down in the prairie grass and clutch each other, imagine dying under fat clouds.
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The memory of thinking
in some other language
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It is late in the twentieth century and I'm on my hands and knees for you.
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I should have created a first-date questionnaire heartaches ago.
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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…
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After the shooting, they sent the boy away. He returned taller and heavier, a sulkier version of his earlier self.
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Most of us are just ordinary mutts with no gift for writing, nothing like Joyce James [or] any of those...
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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.
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I lie here sleepless and wait for the moment when I will touch...
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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.
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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.
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On the ground deputies comb the back roads. Border Patrol scouts from the air
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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.
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She was fast as the wind and lived on air, her clothes a size 0000.
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Lined up like ghosts on the front lawn, the second-hand porcelain fixtures had embarrassed her.
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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!”
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Where seldom is heard
an encouraging word
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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.
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"Oh, abracadabra," she muttered.
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He looks in silence and he looks with longing.
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He'll tell you if you listen long enough the words run together like the teeth of a zipper.
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Sometimes, under the gauze and yellow salves, I glimpse you...
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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
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I hit the pole near Whited Avenue a year to the day.
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Her mind was full of fresh air and swung like a bee over clover.
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His face was cold and hard as marble. Rudy’s angular features shuddered and twitched in the darkness.
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