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There was something about his eyes that seemed more sly than happy. He looked like a teamster winking at a mayor who’d just paid him off to keep trucks rolling through Scranton.
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I asked him where he hurt and he said everywhere.
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I tried to talk, but only / whispers slithered out.
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Know what you’ll become? You’ll become one of those guys who masturbates in any single occupancy restroom that locks.
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Of course then I did it all over again. Got married, that is. Fortunately, this one worked out.
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She’s changed leaves to emeralds. Worn a shawl of inked birds’ wings.
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Myrna came home from her new, midnight shift, waitressing job at the Waffle House saying she was sorry but she couldn't take any more gray-haired Jesus-types with their dollar bills held high, releasing a few so they would flutter, as if borne by wings, onto the tables as…
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...galaxies burst into an infinite slide-show of the absolute... god?
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We wonder if this is how we tangled in our mother's womb: hands to feet to heart.
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His note said: “I’m sick of low attendance.”
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When the planes crashed,when the levees broke,when the ground shook,there was a song I dreamed of,humming subsonic,a chorus of voices and prayersuncorked like the little brown jugthat holds all the love and memories.In the outback, Aborigines believewe create the world by…
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All the years since, until this morning, I'd thought the actor was James Gregory.
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Train whistles in wintertime made him feel lonely.
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As American as hotdogs and apple pie...
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You should never have believed your daddy when he said a man with half a dog was better off than a man with no dog at all.
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I was always more comfortable with the ponies than you were / more comfortable with betting windows and two-dollar bills than you were
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I was desperate for a social life but I couldn’t go out because I was too embarrassed to smile.
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Those who don’t die, desire, descend. No song aloft arises from my irk. The seeing chieftain, not of sea, nor sand, nor boat, I till nightfall stammer alive, dig boneless trenches against tiding dregs and lathe, hunt, wallow, plow the hours, call in awei
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that moon does not think (unless mineral thoughts) . . .
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By the end of my Saturday night shift at the Oyster Bar I look like some kind of filthy nurse
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The two were huddled in a corner of an alley, joined by some others that I’m sure wandered into the darkness when they realized they were far from alone. That alley was the one off Market Street. I used to steal candy from the corner shop when I was nin
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Today I'm feeling fertilized by an egg—
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If I had a daughter, this it how it would be. It would be all, Stand up straight, missy, shoulders back, no slouching, and she'd be sulky, sullen, pouting, wilful, and I'd see in her eyes, which would be my eyes, that she was starting to hate me, and I'd
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As I go by I see five, six high school kids standing on the corner waiting for the bus. They are huddled together like a bunch of ducks....
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4. Hers blocking driveway, his diagonal in grass
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You drink in women's bodies, without reserve. You take a sip at the post office, a gulp at the gym, a teensy taste when we walk together. Tonight you even indulged as we were looking for a parking spot and passed some twenty-somethings, then followed up w
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That led to the first aid box on the bed at 3 in the morning, but what about those veggies?
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They confess love for Karaoke and metal rock. They have purchased expensive Stratocasters and Zildjians.
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When she opens the door, I say hi and introduce her to my friend, a bottle of J.T.S. Brown. She laughs and tells me to come on in before I fall down.
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