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You call your wife. “Do you see what I see?” you ask.
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I'm sure someone somewhere must havefelt something like it before. Imean I've never been able tohave this kind of deep longing asif you might want to forget everythingyou know. I always figured that funny stuff onlyhappened to folks in a foreignfilm. Not to some guy…
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1963 14 11
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The winter following their son's death, Mr. Kelly's wife became absorbed by the tracks that ran in back of their house. At any given hour in the night, he'd hear her in the next room, their son's old room where she now slept, shuffling through dresser drawers. He…
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The handsome man at the opposite table swivels his head at the tall cool slim blonde entering the breakfast cafe. The ordinary woman sitting with him adjusts her chair accordingly. She pretends to ignore her husband's distraction, smoothes her hair, licks her…
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A brief colorful season/
and then the fall as winds/
break the hold the leaves have
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Tyler has a Mars bar in his jeans pocket. It’s warm and soft. He tries to insert it.
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7613 14 7
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The plumber has three lives left or else he is already dead.
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1915 14 12
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I sought to feel something. I hunted my mortality. I craved that rush of life pulsating through my veins.
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You can't always get what you want, and fortunately, that's sometimes a good thing.
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Can’t seem to put your clothes on today. You’re wandering in the little closet of your mind again, picking at socks that won’t stay up, shirts that are always too big -
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He pounds the roof of the Pontiac with the side of his fist and it rumbles like a timpani. He raises his head to light and wipes the sweat from his forehead. There's no sense in fighting it. He will go back and knock on Peter's door.
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The patient people who work with the insane are not my kind of people. They are too entertained by the oddness of the inmates and act with a superior sense. I, on the other hand, am odd myself, searching for adherents to my view. The inmates knew me as such and agreed…
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But you can have a lap dance.
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She'd liked the name of the tanker. The Amoco Cadiz.
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568 14 12
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I keep sneaking looks at this guy on the subway. He's old, maybe 80. Really thin, the kind of thin that makes you think of a skeleton. But he's wiry. His beard, it's a gray, shaggy mess. He's mostly bald, but the hair that grows around the sides and back of his head is too…
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2100 14 8
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Trying to hide, and yet, what continued to permeate was the shiny.
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2026 14 9
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It would be another difference a building has from a “sculpture”. It would be something that even photographers would have difficulty in disguising, since many modern buildings, even many modern photographs of buildings, place such emphasis on symmetry. For both…
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1795 14 10
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Oh to be young and vigorous.
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a question that (never) left
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sheets, white, coarse
redolent with Clorox
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They often leave me dulled/
and wanting back my time.
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--How's the wriiting business? How about that thing you' was workin' on..."Gawain's Green Nights?"
--Yeah, well, I'm kind of off the soft-core...
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1347 13 10
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I'll see her this fall, a redhead in camo
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Slice the moment into/
free body diagrams/
of elegant simplicity
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1953 13 4
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tell me about the time you lived in Carolina, and what my smile does
for you.
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