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The end will film itself/
in charred, eviscerated bodies
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17211412
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I have nothing in me but a raw loneliness right now. It's as if someone whirl-winded me out of the sky into the middle of the ocean in the middle of the red faced night. My fate seems immobile, sealed, doomed to a rocking nothingness, like…
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172110
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My best friend Khaled’s idea was, he’d set up a pool tournament. Nine-ball. Each church would send a player, and whichever church won, he’d join. Any church that wouldn’t shoot pool, he wouldn’t want to join.
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172144
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She lets go and it slides back too slowly.
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172182
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the dogneck gave no support
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17211510
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On the birthday before he started school, he received a pencil case from his paternal grandparents. The violet, oblong pouch contained a pencil and a pencil sharpener in the same color. He didn't remember what had happened with the pencil or the sharpener, but he had…
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172110
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At that point he would leave and listen to the scientists as they debate as to why the moon has organs and why they are covered in a thick fat.
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1721136
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The three were up early to await the deer with rifles, ammunition, and coffee.
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1720146
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I was a six year old with no bike. Only the males in my familyhad that privilege. So one morning I got up very early, before the older siblings awoke, crept out the back porch door where Iknew there would be two bikes in the yard just waiting for me and my…
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17201412
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He says, You think too much and he grins a grin that has all of the attic keys on a wrought iron ring, on a chain.
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172083
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I was making good bread as a New York studio musician and jingle writer, anonymous back-room jobs.
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172032
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Teaching never occurred to me in college. I took workshops and wrote often. Friends and classmates, meanwhile, switched from studio majors to Art Education, or from English to Certification. Not me. Teaching high-schoolers would be all wrong. Briefly, I…
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172061
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Do you think we die when we age?Or when a car runs over our hearts?We die slowly, minute by minute, every secondBy the time you read this, you've died a little
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1720178
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"Your mother does sailors," the parrot screeched.
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172045
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When the city froze and the darkness began to arrive ahead of rush hour, my pills worked; Butterfly Hu’s did not. In a double blind trial, you can’t know who gets the miracle, and who gets the sugar.
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172011
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I'm not hungry now
The darkness swallows me as they eat.
I'm starving now
With a pain I can't defeat.
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1719138
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I’m aware I will never be a woman the night you leave me for another city
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171910
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and we got the apartment, which was on a street that backed up on an alley situated, as it turned out, right across the alley from the very first Hari Krishna house, where they would wake up at four every morning and begin their maddening chanting: Hari K
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171983
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I walked on hot coals. She got ahead of me. (228 words)
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171954
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It is late at night and you lean / over me to make sure your alarm is set.
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17191410
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It is indisputable that poets love roadkill...
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171931
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Jane worked out of her new husband's suburban house, struggling to remember it belonged to her too. She shook off memories of years in a rented Mid-City shotgun, an old elevated dwelling that still seemed like home. It ended up with four feet of canal water…
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17181914
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Sure, to a teacher, life is a paper / but what would life be to a druggist?
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171800
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Allen would stroll the remains of the orchard, reminiscing with Tad, flirting with dementia.
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1718107
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Uncle Tee, a dog handler, taught all the camp children their basics: how to "make change" from a $10-bill, how to slip a hand into ladies' purses, and how to make their smiles warm and endearing.
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171884
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He wrote, wrote, wrote with the sharp eye of an eagle...
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1718106
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I saw/
star shine in/
my silver pail
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1718125
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The heavyset blind woman came into the art opening without a dog or a cane.
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171811
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17182118
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After the funeral there was a luncheon in the church basement.
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