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On stage, students from the junior college join children from the community to speak and sing in American-French accents. They are timid, heart-broken, in love, rebellious, faithful, resigned to their fates—and all in the matter of a few short hours.
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I kept a journal
for so many years
I've forgotten
everything I wrote.
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People crawling up out of the chimney, then onto the roof, then sliding down it and off over the edge disappearing from view.
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an ominous figure of fear and grace a ball moves back and forth
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He never bothered converting the tip money he pocketed at the Imperial Street 24 hour car wash as his world was replete with 25 cent transactions, making quarters the perfect coin for his realm.
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If we thought that love was gone
that out of sweetness none remained
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I am tired of playing the old game: Saying something old in a new way. So let me do the opposite:
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These are the small miracles we witness from my barrio stoop.
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Moon Boy sits atop the hill's crest and watches Moon Girl.
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How much do book editors earn? Peacock Love. (aww…)
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I remember being sent a picture once from one of my old roommates, Louise, back in Chicago where I came from. The photo was taken when she’d come out for a visit to California. In the picture I am sitting on the front stairs of my house in the Rockridge
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I am abandoned to the mundane/
calculations of a small mind/
trapped by small considerations
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I saw it all, in a flash. Holy shit! I thought. This is good. I have to sit down and begin writing. This is serious. Dead serious!
I would rather be doing this than eating, or fucking, or anything. It was exhilarating. If I could only keep this up, who
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Clare sits bolt upright in the hard plastic chair, warily tracking every passer-by. In her lap, Kim’s hair is damp with sweat, dark blonde curls melting against her flushed cheeks. Clare absently strokes the length, soothing both of them.
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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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"I'll tell you one thing I don't want to see, armed confrontation, leading to domestic warfare."
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fat furry marmots who play hide and seek
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...will it be as overwhelmingly dull and tedious as de Sade?
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Lately he's been wanting to write about love...
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[CAUTION: TO PREVENT ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE COVER. NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE. REFER SERVICE TO QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL.]
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Particles flung by the sun
pierce us through, undetected
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Under the dirty orange glow of sodium streetlights, the glistening pavement looks slick, but it’s only just wet. The mid-November temperature is cool—quite mild, actually, for this late time of year—still hovering in the upper 30s—so far posing only the
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Never touch David Letterman's neck!
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She wears three or four tattered sweaters on cool days. She pushes a basket borrowed from a grocery store. There is a plastic lawn bag in the basket with God knows what inside.
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