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When you bring information, it does not arrive.
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I bought some charlatan art / and hung it on the wall
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Eons later, Bobo evolves into Shakespeare. Bonus feature: wings.
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The year begins well here
with much needed rain
and tee-shirt temperatures.
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Don and I return to Rasheed's room on the top floor of the middle house where Uzma sits waiting to speak her piece. I'm feeling blessed listening to their enthusiastic chatter. It's like the world is opening up to me again, allowing me to experience a rush of…
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Trapped inside a seashell, almost pickled and eaten for dinner—could my life become any more bizarre?
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Dad woke us up and said it was time to go.
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I stood there skinny-as-a-half in “big hair,” ankle boots, and black eyeliner. P. was in radio, not books. He had a sense of humor. I was researching a different man for a novel.
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I always have a serious expression on my face, am usually in a white coat and probably look completely unapproachable but there I am, and pasted in my scrapbook: Local Doctor Saves Another Life.
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All the attractive women in the building had secrets. He wanted to know their secrets, but they wouldn't say.
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The stars align against us. Lines of force/
collaborate to push us off the edge/
into the dark abyss we’ve joked about.
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the urgent, naked glow of opportunity
or
the dim fluorescent nuisance of an object out of reach
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1. It uncurls in your hand like an autumn leaf but fails to recall your happiness. 2. A triangle is the sum of its angles a priori. 3. Leaning on the lens of psychotropics leaves you with restless legs and akithisia. 4. Body…
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It is Cary's favorite time of day. School is finished and he is alone, outside his home; and that is the way Cary likes it. Buffalo Bill is having a grand time today! In one corner of the backyard where the grass is bare, Cary is leading the little plastic Bill to…
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My friend says there's some kind of bug that bites its mate's head off after they have sex.
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1.As fast as that I wake to astonishing desire. I'd met you at my parents' house just the weekend before but for them (them the drained students trying to relax, refill before their afternoon sessions) you are the stranger in the room,…
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The three were up early to await the deer with rifles, ammunition, and coffee.
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You are a space-walker and a time-traveler...
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a Ferris wheel gently rocks
its last riders
then dumps them to the ground.
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Times were tough back then. Just a few jobs. This was in the late thirties. It's the story of how Albert hooked up with Iris. Their unlikely meeting took place when they met out on the Highway 61 right-of-way just outside of Natchez, Mississippi, each trying to hitch…
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My sacred boxes contained this information.
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Treasure that first love. And that first heartbreak. Don’t let it be the last thing.
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unsteady, they try to rise
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They stumble and curse prettily, their thin arms traversed with colored lines of drainage from the swooping trays, snakes of pricey liquor tinkling down their armpits and disappearing into unwashed bras packed with soggy filler.
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Love is always going to be all even when all else is
floating to the burning ground.
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Alone on the platform, I waited for a train.
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Max leads the parade up the hill. He is sawing on his violin, wearing nothing but a raincoat.
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I had been in bed for a couple of days and by this I mean sleeping for fifteen or sixteen hours at a time. I don’t think that I believed in God anymore. I no longer knew how to stay awake.
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