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....sees the beginning of a new day through the closed shutters, hears the guard washing up at the sink, feels the beginning of a cry in his throat.
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SeesWe fell into this lake together and traced the clean soft lines straight back to ourselves, with a carefree laugh, ha ha ha-- an embarrassing ease. This small miracle does tend to put in orbit something high flying besides clouds into the sky inside of…
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I write in the morning when the world is bendy.
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I looked around in my pantry but there were no sentences I felt like cooking.
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The kid with a testosterone chip
Instead of a brain
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When did the air become warning?That clairvoyant delft and Delphic sky.What strange and ardent premonitionheld sway? Where were we goingbefore this hard work of constant falling?We were catching cabs and making breakfast,ironing, cursing late trains; hoping the deal…
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My father brought home a turquoise Porsche with red leather upholstery. My sister and I were small, eight and six, and fit tightly in the jumpseats behind my parents.We went for a ride, tooled around Rome, circled the Colosseum, showing off for the people looking. My father…
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My name's Barbara and don't call me Barbie if you want to be my friend.
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as i sink down into the
shadows crawling like a worm
past cold bricks
centuries old in my blood
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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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