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Being awake for the sunrise, that is the good planfor writing poemsand listening to enginesbirdsand bus stop silence.Now, I'm going to smokeout back on my roof porchfrom this atticapartmentin this desert land of big-titted blondesand listen to stadium fansrage…
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Indeed, it was quite likely that no one in town had ever played either of these games. The townsfolk were not big fans of word games, though they did enjoy Whist and Canasta.
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My motivation as a filmmaker for traveling to Japan was economic and opportunistic. American military occupation had accelerated westernization and, when Japan regained its sovereignty in 1952, their economy was rapidly expanding. Led by manufacturing and export of items…
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“If 'neighbor' applies to women who covet—'deliriously desire'—husbands from Angers, then one day he'll be your husband's neighbor," I say.
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A Nonfiction Behind the Scenes look at how the Arcana Magi Universe came to existence.
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Melinda said forget the kegger last night, what we’re about to do will help you figure out whether you want to apply here.
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I was squatting in the living room at the party handling foreign currency. Two W.A.S.P. men in dark grey suits—we were partygoers new to each other—told us to keep the money. We removed the bills from a black leather album.
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The javelin was cancelled after the unfortunate incident with Mrs Parker last year, but no one could have predicted this year’s sack race tragedy.
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It felt like he'd just taken his marriage out into the woods, forced it to its knees, and put a bullet through its head. Or they had, together.
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Like many little towns, ours has an archive. It is a catalog of everything that happens.
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A year after we'd last spoken I can still remember your commentary, our ill-fated reunion at the baggage claim forever immortalized as this solitary instance of unobstructed joy.
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Born, he stood up. He wore nothing as often as possible
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Librarians are hiding something. What is it?
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The squirrels will not stop peeing on the trees.
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Q: This name in Basque means “owns a new house.” A: What is “Xavier”?
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Her preferred post-coital activity is to pant, to suck in air with urgent greed.
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My love for him like wax wings/
so long they stretched eternal—
beating in the sky, grazing peaks,
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He asked me to bury him in Vegas.
Instead, I had him cremated in Trenton.
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But they all know the parking prayer...
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Having read the poetry of Dennison
I hereby give up writing.
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I won't fail at this like trying to fix a leaking sink without mud grease or washers tinier than Cheerios.
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Fingers fan like birds’ wings
cradling the volume,
head hanging low
and lips moving silently...
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you hear the knell of kindness
long before its cathedral voices -- a recessional --
barters better times.
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The eggs got badder as the cook got madder
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It was the first time I had ever seen a possession.
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When the Borgias ruled Italy they had murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love and 500 years of democracy, and produced the cuckoo clock.
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I tell my woman friend the new man's penis is too large. I tell her once. She asks me later whether I asked about it at the doctor's—large cock, she calls it, and I say I told the doctor my boyfriend's in a wheelchair.
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Nick frowned, the changing of the leaves reminding him of the graying of his hair.. He'd never appreciated the colors of fall, as they heralded frost, winter, which he hated more and more each passing year.
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