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. . . hot sand and quiet ocean only.
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Your mother is a great and dying bird. Once, she tended her grand feathered nest. Once, she preened.
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you dug a hole inside my heart
and asked me if it hurt
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you notice some of what
you need―
a pressure of something
you've intended,
somewhere without
a place,
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FOR SALE. One prom dress, never worn. Size 18.
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I'm walking you / through Pere Lachaise
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Have you heard this yet? The daughter flew home to care for the mother, whose pump is still tick ticking—though now with aid—which means she leaves the kitchen when the microwave clicks on.
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She sometimes ate her dinner standing up, in front of her living room window.
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Strauss does all the stirring at the start./
The rest is all murk and meander
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There was a children’s lit theme running through the party. Aside from Annemarie’s costume, there was a Harry Potter, a Pinocchio, and a Grinch.
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Your soap on the shelf in the shower
melts with my every hair wash
and I'll miss it the way I should have missed you.
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the Great Way itself is very smooth and straight,/but folks take to the challenge of rough, wild roads.
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Based on length it looked like a note, lacking the deeper illustration found in full-fledged letters, but also missing were condolences and considering the subject, such sympathies might have seemed appropriate: Dear Mr. and Mrs. Madison, Katie is
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wrenched its lower back trying so hard to lift too many stacked November clouds off the newly shaved prickly heads of the slowly freezing trees,like ring weights,and had to spend the last of its hours setting in a small square box in…
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I watch as my character falls lifelessly to the ground. I press the square button and I am instantly revived.
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I seem to be at a crisis in this cursed writing life of mine[exclamation point] I am too depressed to squeeze another uncannily inspiring observation out of my pert[comma] sassy self[semi-colon] I waiver hysterically between feverish confidence and a pai
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Another siege/
with kamikaze fervor.
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...as a boy I rode once in an elevator with Colonel Sanders...
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Coward, cuckold, she taunts: So be it. He's not a young man anymore, nor as clever as he once was, or thought.
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He extended his bent arm to its full length with a crack, straightened his hunched body and tried, and failed, to close his lips over his frightening grimace. Stone lips are not pliable.
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The Sobriety Group met at four every Wednesday night, just in time for the seven members to get a good table at Patrick's bar to drink beer by six. “Beer's not really even alcohol,” laughed one and then all. …
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Cellulite is legal to have, either way.
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I got 3 good hubcaps
That oughta be enough
You can take away my house
You can take away my stuff
Just leave it on the curbside
With my beat-up Cadillac
Got my 3 good hubcaps
I ain’t never coming back
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Defy the impulse to grow beyond/
your means and the means of the/
place where you lie at night.
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my space heater throws a pale orange light
my white candles flicker in the middle of the night
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The juice that stays on my neck when you tip me back, catching me in an alleyway, holding me upright as the oranges tumble and strike the backs of my knees. You cup your strong-smelling, sticky-soft fingers around my ear and say let's blow this city.
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He now knew the impossible to be possible.
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If Simpkin believed in reincarnation, which he did not, as he was a philosopher, not a religious fanatic, he might have thought he was Boringer reincarnated.
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