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Beard of Bees
My father always used to say to me, he said "Son" (he called me son) "Son. Falling in love is easy. Getting into the Guinness Book of World Records is hard".
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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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“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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So no one ever caught sight of Eleanor picking her nose; besides, that wasn't what she was doing.
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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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fire rolls through
the drive-thru
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Let’s talk about Chattanooga, the cloud / mountains, the monastery bench, drunk / at sunset
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Is there a recipe for / lasting happiness?
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190721
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One night the woman went down in the
basement, grabbed an electric drill, and let the voices out in eight places.
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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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Dad woke us up and said it was time to go.
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His head was usually full of ah ha!, a luminescence that folded around obstacles like smoke.
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...even unbelieving prayer
muttered with quiet resigned breaths
can not foretell or forestall stains...
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“I can’t believe you went ahead and got pregnant without me,” I said.
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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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In desperation, the city council imported a shaman to exorcise whatever demons had possessed the house.
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They discovered the baby in the grass, under the snapping cotton sheets.
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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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I don't want no laugh track
I'm trying to find something that's real
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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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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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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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“I’ll be damned,” he said. “I never knew where that was.”
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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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When the writer expressed with subtle alacrity that he adored the painter, she was flattered and didn't raise objection. The writer-in his aloof manner, with experienced caution-pointedly wrote a poem directly for his muse. She never spoke of it, and hi
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“No, dad, I've never seen urine colored pearls.”
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The world is full of dead dogs
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I answered with my usual economy of words. If someone wants more, they must ask, and he did.
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Giving challenging patrons funny nicknames is a "library thing."
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