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"Stop watching the news!Because the news contrives to frighten youTo make you feel small and aloneTo make you feel that your mind isn't your own"--MorrisseyThe world has gone crazy, but please let me make you One of my healing songs. You can eat it now, if you…
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The sirens didn’t eat the sailors
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Some time ago, I began to write you letters with the idea of helping your newspaper become a more complete map of our little shared world.
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a human hand/
looks sadly/
naked now
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I could have a minor stroke.
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The calls come in a few times a week. When the unknown someone calls Safety Now, Radon Testing and Elimination Headquarters, Mrs. R. wonders who it is that just sits silently on the other end of the line. She wants to say, "Look, if you're a bill colle
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What did it mean? What would a psychologist say? Oh, who cares. In my opinion, we ask why, what, when, where, and how too often.
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You make your art when you can and Perhaps vice versa. You really Don't know what that means? Consult your tarot. You make your Art and visualize your mind As a large pool of water. You Make your art and if you're lucky They may…
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She bought her first gerbil at the age of nine. She wondered if he would die from endless logrolling. When he died from natural causes, she refused to bury him and kept a distance from the first boy who kissed her--Thomas J. Hobbit. The next year a twister swept…
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his perfect ivory
voice telling me
i brush too hard.
…as if he cared
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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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