1811 8 8
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I can confirm nothing/
but impressions of the world//
that appear beyond my/
body’s reach.
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181186
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Here I am in the city where we walked side by side, you had driven a great distance and lost your way somewhere where exits left the highway from both directions and unpredictably.
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181166
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The man went into his backpack and pulled out his book of crossword puzzles. The deluxe edition with fifty percent more puzzles for free. It had been an impulse buy from the bookstore, cost him four…
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1811114
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Mounds of earth and grassless ground
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181100
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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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1811147
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where is the magic at?
the spit
the dirt
or the words?
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18111814
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Also in development,/
the anatomically perfect robot/
pool boy and naughty maid,
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1811119
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He asked me to bury him in Vegas.
Instead, I had him cremated in Trenton.
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18111513
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We lived on the edge of a tiny Iowa town, and picked corn fields were steps away.
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181133
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They said AK, AK, if you want to come here, if you want to come to Antioch, you have to bring your A+ game. If you want to run with the big boys. That’s what they said. So I brought my A+ game.
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181153
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The thing was, though, she couldn’t shake the image of that dead dog she had found inside the black trash bag she thought could be first base, right before the twins said, Screw the game, let’s swing.
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1810109
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It was all I was convinced / in designing the encounter.
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1810123
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I'm explicating Emily Dickinson when the alarm starts: three long, two short. Lockdown mode. Only there was nothing in the staff bulletin about a drill. So I tell the students to get down on the floor, away from the window. I open the classroom door and lock it from…
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181031
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the future wrapped up in a dream
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181097
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I stand at the edge of the water naked as a newborn. Tiny ripples lick my toes.
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18102119
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The younger woman asked Scott if he loved Jesus.
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1810139
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Like many little towns, ours has an archive. It is a catalog of everything that happens.
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181000
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an ominous figure of fear and grace a ball moves back and forth
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181054
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180962
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180955
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How would you like to leave the land of your ancestors, the place of your birth, the home of your identity?
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180955
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While the other kids blew bubbles, Maddy clung to my neck. She didn't cry or scream, and she held on loosely, not with the death grip some kids have. For five Wednesday afternoons, Maddy wrapped her pudgy arms over my shoulders and rested her bottom on m
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18092214
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I thought each day died inside the clock.
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180987
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what is raised up must rest on its foundation.
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1809193
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The snake was fang-less and so had to choke her, making the kill bloodless and drawn out, just the way she liked it.
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18091310
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I see my siblings once a year when we all show up, as if required by law, to eat Thanksgiving dinner. It is apparent with every bite how much they hate each other.
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18092111
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Guys on safari wearing safari jackets shoot things all day, things with funny names …
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180955
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Alessandro was no ordinary demon (what demon is?), insofar as he had Constable Pulce's number. In demonly fashion he had Pulce's number in a way Pulce himself did not.
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180820
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a store called ROCKING FROCKS. In its window was a black tee shirt that said in big white letters, I'M NOT A SLUT, I'M WITH THE BAND.
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180833
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In a corner of a neighbor’s land too stony to till Cob makes a mystery.
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