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In se'enties style serenading strut
A passin all the pretty birds in kin',
The feathered Stetson ‘clipsin crimson suit,
A whistlin Dixie blues ‘cross county-lines.
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The river’s not/
a river but/
a FEMA map/
of flooding probabilities.
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Gorgonzola. It's what she was to bring this time. Plumtree's potted meat. What it was last time.
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For my Dad
Happy Father's Day!
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No news spreads faster than news of a death. Word of the death of a child can be heard simultaneously in a thousand places. . . the word spread by telephone, in back yards from clothesline to clothesline, with whispers in grocery stores, in the looks on faces stunned into…
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["This is not a snippet of text. This is only a test."]
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Her pudgy face, flour-coated and sugary and so life-nurturing in the past, had a different spark now, a searching look I’d seen as soon as she opened the door.
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"Do you have to call your brother a loser? He is not a loser and that was just uncalled for"
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So it was cancer. And so he was screwed, royally screwed. He was screwed all the more because he knew how screwed he was. He had to carry the shame of knowing, as much as he wanted to deny it, that this had been his first thought when he found out about h
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Mary ran her cake business in a way she could never have run her marriage. It was by appointment only, full deposit, partial refund (and this purely at her own discretion). Business was terrific and she had to turn down job after job. She only made…
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But by day the birds / of prey were in control.
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I want crazy at my funeral. I want clowns, a petting zoo, fireworks, craps tables, male and female strippers, and a three-person band composed of old men wearing striped vests, black pants, and straw hats: one plays a banjo, another on tuba, and…
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i.More and more, for Megan LeMaster, each beginning was its own end. She couldn't bear to buy flowers or dresses that seemed too beautiful. Friendships formed, endured, gave out in a handshake. Each deed in life had an immediate, inescapable…
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“You wanna fight.”
And I say yes.
And he says –
“First, we gotta make out.”
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Watching water fall in the longest waterfall/
becomes immediately tedious
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Duh. It’s all the same sky. Instead I nod, and don’t say anything.
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In sleep their bodies drift between the sheets until they find each other.
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The waitress says,
“That’s a memory,”
as the smoke dances around her head.
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When I died, she said, she was going to have me cremated and put my ashes in the cats’ litter box.
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After court, the three of us skipped third period, walked down to the river and huddled under the 6th Street Bridge.
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On Day 1122 at 4:14 AM the door which has remained since installation firmly glued to the masonry behind opens and a man emerges blinking shielding his eyes against fine stinging snow.
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Blacked-out out on junk, I bet money on a sport I hated just last year.
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Feminine, safe, though disembodied,/
she shapes your life in ways/
your mother never could.
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I spent the whole day at Oliveira's, writing furiously in my notebooks. The words came pouring out. Just before seven, Darrell picked me up. I grew anxious driving down to Parker's studio because it was in a bad area on the border between Oakland
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You call the shit in this paper news? ‘Dog Accidentally Shoots Man With His Own Gun, Swedish Man Bursts Into Flames on Train Platform, The Truth About Elvis's Hidden Extraterrestrial Daughter.' Seriously? Enough about Elvis already.
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"Ah, finally the rain stopped pouring!" She opens the window to let the sticky air out of the house. The colours outside have changed. The air is clear and the sky turns into light pink while the sun is drowning at the horizon. She takes a deep breath. The…
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She comes in with her white bag with its floral patterns scattered, almost accidentally, all around it
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[DO NOT READ BETWEEN THIS LINE ... CITIZEN!]
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Things don’t happen here, life is so boring in this little Irish town.
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