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19681311
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The hair on my arms have greyed, or so that's how it looks to me. It's been 12 years since we last spoke. I think I haven't aged too well. I bought a rocking chair.
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196800
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And it whispered like any wood. And the blade moaned when he got too deep and tried to cut too much. And as the dead parts of him came off, in tendrils and dust, the man's chest began to move, like the hands around his heart had let go.
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1968149
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When Uncle Dan got sent to the Alzheimer's ward, the ladies licked their lips. Fresh meat.
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196898
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Travel into the beautiful swirling being you occupy whenever you get the chance. It's your right to seek the name of the most holy one in your deepest awakening. Then will you most likely find fellow travelers splashing about in their naked auras in…
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19681910
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The snows have not come but left behind are the sounds of summer in my old neighborhood.
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196893
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One night we were invited out for dinner, and we got into a knock-down, drag-out that afternoon. My wife got so angry I had to hold her down on the bed.
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1968119
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"Jesus was a zombie?" I ask, shocked.
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196897
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Giving challenging patrons funny nicknames is a "library thing."
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196841
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The sun was so upset that immediately he pulled his blanket over his face and cried out of worry. His blanket, of course was made of clouds and his tears made up the rain. The sun was very right to be frightened, as were the flowers to wither, for the Kin
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19681311
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Max leads the parade up the hill. He is sawing on his violin, wearing nothing but a raincoat.
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196786
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When the boy held the rifle’s sights on a living creature, his breath stilled and his heartbeat swimming in his ears, his father seemed close.
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19671315
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Somewhere a banjo, somewhere a hound.
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196721
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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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1967136
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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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196712
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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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196710
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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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19671611
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Is there a recipe for / lasting happiness?
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19671412
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A sweet fog rises to the rafters. Inhale.
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196795
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Hair as black as a Raven’s wing. Dark eyes. You wore a black dress, too, my favorite color.
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196721
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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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19671713
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19662117
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After breakfast, he dresses and heads / for the blackjack tables.
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196641
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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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196665
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There are glasses in the sinkfrom the water that I drink.And the books in my li-braryare not dumb and ordinary.There's a doggie at my door;did I go to the pet store?There's a puppy on my couch-ywho was happy, now she's grouchy.Was a writer, now an authoror an otter; no, an…
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19651511
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Stupidity is not a mask; it is the face / and it is the face that betrays us / always.
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1965168
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dos equis ambar
sits cool and dark
by my side
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196573
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I, the energies moving through this body, in this particular parallel reality in this multiverse, am standing out in the middle of the night, under only stars, and surrounded by the soft, organic shapes of a tree line.
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196521
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He lays his piping accoutrement on the bedside table, removes his cap, brocaded jacket, boots and slacks. Holmes brushes gently, the back of his hand across the confused face of Watson— their…
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1965107
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Difference 'twixt night and day
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