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The Plaza had a chess-board floor, green wood booths, and the lights stayed up. I might be combining a memory of Fitzie's in Binghamton. The Plaza felt like a preppy soda fountain with beer.
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I see those shoes and the status they confer, and I know what they cost.
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I took Annie to the zoo, and the tigers got out. The little tigers, that is. Cubs. Two of them. The zoo employees scurried about, peeking into nooks and crannies.
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The rain pelted down, it got dark, and they couldn't see a thing. The wind roared like a thousand locomotives.
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We liked the orderly Newtonian/
with its fundamentalist action/
and reaction, its rules
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Neither/
evergreen nor exactly deciduous./
And soon, a yellow residue of pollen/
smearing hoods and windshields
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I asked the hospice nurse about maggots.
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and all the trees are holding/their limbs up in prayer/and rain is mating with soil
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But even if the truth
Never sets me free
I'll know this ain't the end of me
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I am a housekeeper at a private women's college in upstate New York.
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Ever had the occasion to wake up look at your watch and see it's five-thirty in the morning — after sleeping on the couch all night? Ever then gone to take a leak, trudged down the hall, cracked your bedroom door to check on your wife and found a portly, balding man…
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Library life is full of surprises.
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Because they boil bananas and I fry them.
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During war, as in any terrible time of upheaval, burials are merely quick words and a scattering of dirt, if the dead are lucky.
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Maybe all quarterbacks are shitwads.
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Bones consolidate with age. The fleshy/
bits of body follow by wrinkling and/
spreading outward, appearing to expand.
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"She gave me a "you're fucking stupid, kid" look and handed me a of cigarettes. It was all downhill from there."
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I was a six year old with no bike. Only the males in my familyhad that privilege. So one morning I got up very early, before the older siblings awoke, crept out the back porch door where Iknew there would be two bikes in the yard just waiting for me and my…
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My date with Satan commenced at the Sanrio store by Union Square where we went to browse through two stories of miniature Japanese school supplies and grooming accessories.
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“Mommy,” the voice was thin as a fledgling's. “I'm here, baby,” I said. An arm rose from the pavement and small fingers wound themselves into my…
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They were carried out / over shoulders of running soldiers / naked bodies pass
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I think he viewed Communion as an act of hygiene that allowed him to go on being fiery and self-determined.
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The alphabets will disappear.
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The dog is reading. This morning, as every morning, the book is open in front of him. Well before his master's rise, he had already read the moon then dawn and the clouds. Now the slippers, these that walk here and there. Followed by coffee and the pages that turn. A little…
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In the late 60’s, I lived on West 71st street in Manhattan and borrowed books from a store.
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