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I'm standing on a toilet, trapped behind a stall. Watching Father U mop up the blood.
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I had told myself that I would not cry. That I would hold on to my anger so tightly, there would be no space for pity.
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When we're near, there is a black cloud, such as Sylvia Plath described in her unabridged journal, that semi-appeared in her rental cottage where she and Ted Hughes lived in Cornwall. The cloud filled the center of the room where she sat alone.
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Call it a spell or a prayer or a ritual; it worked.
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As the other mammals go extinct,/
we can’t presume we are immune//
because of big brains and a history/
of belief in the control of nature.
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She's always sitting in a soft chair watching television with little stars dotting her elbows and lightning bolts on her wrists.
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She was not the usual member of the band, not the girl nextdoor, not next to any door, not a regular housekeeper or woman. She was a ditch digger, a pied, circular piper, a mouse hugger.
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angels and lambs
drunkards and whores
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A lot of people are like this--they thrive on On conflict My bartender is that way-she likes the Confrontation She wants to fight and argue and haggle And I never related to this In anyone Well, people are scared, or pretend to be Scared at the bar. Some…
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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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