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And so it begins, like this, waiting to long for a lazy train out of West Toledo...
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190512
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In his dreams, he swam in piles of pills. Sometimes the piles were infinite, other times the were contained, tonight the pills were intense shiny reds, chalky yellows, deep blues and matte purples and swirled around in a children's inflatable castle. Derek swam happily,…
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Stories Around People An Event Facebook lived in midtown, for there the people and windows shone like water. Though it would board the bus—1 day—and ride to the sea, where people said words like sea and where the city shone in the waves…
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19051312
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Let’s talk about Chattanooga, the cloud / mountains, the monastery bench, drunk / at sunset
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1905118
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The wind has no voice
and yet we listen,
perhaps imagining the ramblings
of a mad man
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1905135
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Dad woke us up and said it was time to go.
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190587
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"I've been on eight blind dates in three days," she tells me. I can't quite work the math out, but somehow the combination of her wildly undulating eyebrows and harsh vocal tone manage to convince me."I can play the kazoo," I tell her. It's my one saving grace--the thing…
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190477
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Tsunamis are quiet at first:
not one big wave but many
small injustices, so chaotic
all the pressing all the weight
of the noise, like a stone
holding you under.
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1904107
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The Muse stands at the summit of a paragraph playing with a yo-yo.
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190475
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We could kiss under the elder tree, even though it was forbidden, even though we were drowned by the noise of the river and nothing we said was right
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190474
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“Lunge to your right,” the woman on the screen instructs. She is easily six-months pregnant but still looks fit and healthy. “Now show off your baby.” She centers herself, splays her arms, and thrusts her belly out towards us. “Lunge to the left. Now show
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190441
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At that time I was meeting Jacob at 3:30 each afternoon in Joan of Arc Park so we could walk dogs together. This was our job.
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1903103
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“I’ll be damned,” he said. “I never knew where that was.”
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19031112
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...even unbelieving prayer
muttered with quiet resigned breaths
can not foretell or forestall stains...
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190343
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[testing ... one, two, three ... testing ... is this thing on? ... ok, here goes:]
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190320
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She’ll get a dog
a Weimaraner
I know
She’ll call him Alfie
after her first
two dogs
He’ll try to get up
on the bed
She’ll say, Alfie, no, no
But in the night
she will let him
so as not to be lonely
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190310
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They gave Lee a bunch of morphine in the ambulance and he came to vaguely, murmuring shit about God and mermaids.
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190398
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The stand is designed to clasp two guitars, one on either side. She cradles an Ovation in her arms, a guitar variety our high school friends used to call a soup bowl. In the stand is an acoustic-electric hybrid that I toyed with for ten…
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They discovered the baby in the grass, under the snapping cotton sheets.
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190220
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His mother was not an aw-come-here-honey-and-give-me-a-hug type mom. She was the kind of mother who, if you had some kind of problem, would suggest that perhaps it might be a good idea to volunteer (she was really big on volunteering) at some sort of orga
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190252
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“It’s about basic working conditions!” she says, rubbing ice cubes on her nipples.
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190256
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She told me one way to deal with it would be to put everything in a box and burn it.
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190250
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“No, dad, I've never seen urine colored pearls.”
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190220
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“I can’t believe you went ahead and got pregnant without me,” I said.
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190266
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4. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
> > (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
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190297
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Giving challenging patrons funny nicknames is a "library thing."
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190200
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In desperation, the city council imported a shaman to exorcise whatever demons had possessed the house.
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19021611
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Is there a recipe for / lasting happiness?
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190254
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The same night your best friend of two years called you up to tell you they don't want to think about you anymore was the same night you had stood silently, leaning, head against the mustard wall in your mom's boyfriend's house, stuck listening to Randy…
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Great Uncle did stunts in silents and shot a man in a cowboy one-reeler, then vanished to the hills like Roy Earle in High Sierra.
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