1821 15 12
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You anchor the real
You make love to the true
I am bound to you in consecration
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182152
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Some books are like old friends and when you read them, you no longer feel alone.
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182022
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I flung the basketball at the hoop and Cooper shagged the ball. He was the luckiest bastard I knew. ...
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1820106
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182022
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Next to you, the mother tightens her grip on her stroller. The young teenager tears her gaze from her mobile phone for an instant.
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1820108
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Half-pint Ball canning jars, each labeled in earnest capital letters, took up a whole wall of Teeny’s bedroom. Inside each jar was air she had collected from some place important to her life.
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182012
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Moon Boy sits atop the hill's crest and watches Moon Girl.
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182066
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There is a push-up on the ceiling. I don't know how to get it down. I've tried hitting it with a broom. That just made it blow steam. I asked my wife, did you do push-ups on the ceiling? She did. Why? It's easier up there. The cat doesn't bother me. Well, you left…
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182054
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Never touch David Letterman's neck!
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182066
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A son packs his bag - bottled water, extra masks, and jerky. Mom paces behind him. “Don't go.”
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182087
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We want our lives even-cut, …
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182052
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I considered explaining that the universe is still evolving and changing, but the look on her face said GENESIS ONE.
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182021
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I look at that wall, it has piss-stain yellow paint and water scars from several years of leaky pipes. I say I wouldn’t mind that, if he took out some of that wall.
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182033
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Susan was twenty-four when it happened again, but she had neither the patience nor the attachment to see it through.
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18201814
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Also in development,/
the anatomically perfect robot/
pool boy and naughty maid,
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18201514
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I wrote this during a poetry workshop at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with Carolyn Forché. January, 2015. So much more has happened since that stunning week.
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18201110
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Some of them are notorious tweakers. Nobody epitomizes the cowboy-outlaw biker more than the ironworkers, who are wired on Black Beauties they sell on breaks.
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1820106
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He is drilling the door of a safe to access the keys he locked inside.
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181953
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Having sex with her there made me feel like a child molester, I said. She said it made her excited.
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181933
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Waking in the middle of the night, tangled in the hotel sheets, I wanted to hear the story again: their pilot friend, the war, his specialty. "It's just a screw, son," Dad said, "nothing exotic."
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181900
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Black tagliatelle with squid and funghi porcini. He didn't understand why they called it a special, it had been in the menu since day one they had opened.
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1819114
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Mounds of earth and grassless ground
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181962
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"What is a vageena?" I wanted to know.
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181920
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The cabin has windows all around, like ribbon tying a birthday present.
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1819148
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When Kat returned home from The East Street Wars, she learned that her epileptic lover, White Dog, died from madness
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18191610
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181922
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181882
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The Numbers will never romp up the stairs from the laundry room to slip warm socks on your feet on a winter’s night.
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181821
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Mrs. Noah eyed the thickening clouds from the front stoop. Noah was still out in the yard kicking up sand in disgust, arguing with himself the whole time. Piles of cedar timber lay strewn all about. Maybe if they’d lived even three days’ journey clos
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181800
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And Mickey said to the reporter, "I wrote a play for Richard. It is the wild play I performed with Richard. I think he will like this shit."
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