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"Jesus was a zombie?" I ask, shocked.
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I watched you knee deep in water with a little boy you were hitting.
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Another Saturday in April. Another set of scars.
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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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When she told me to write itI did; I scratched out what I wanted to sayin quick print letters. Not all of it.I could never get it all out in an hour but thegeneral idea was definitely there. We had to finish it in the rain becausewe couldn't light the…
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Lately he's been wanting to write about love...
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The Karaoke Girls are not appreciated. Not nearly enough and not often enough.
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You can use your shoelaces or an Ace bandage. Loop a belt around your neck and toss the loose end over a shower curtain or closet pole. Pull. Try to lift yourself off the ground.
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We are prisoners of anticipation.
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We've talked often about that night, where six hours of our life disappeared, about our shared experience, and the big question of why.
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I kept a journal
for so many years
I've forgotten
everything I wrote.
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When I was 17, they said in an e-mail that you would get too drunk to function and that you would abuse them, verbally, and do way more than embarrass them in public. They said you'd yell at them and hit their mom for any reason. They put a restraining order on you.…
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A junkyard Bison seems an odd choice over the usual dog, but it did the job--trampling trespassers, vagrants and unautorized salvagers with a violent and admirable efficiency
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The truth about the bird and the snake is this. They are dead. And me? I cannot stop thinking about them.
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Someone will labor to keep it alive/
although the body will want but/
to return to random particles
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I remember ...all the teenagers offered no-longer favored CDs, last year's cell phones, third-place trophies, team jerseys, played-out videogame cartridges, and candy-colored miniature stuffed animals...
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Cellulite is legal to have, either way.
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this reaching, this striving to love like it's there becoming something we need.
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Joaquin Phoenix has inspired me to quit writing and purse my true lifelong passion.
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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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“Ol’ Betty has a nice set of headlights,” he says with a wink as he springs out of the recliner.
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They had been wintering on the Cape under gunmetal skies...
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the array of regularly spaced wavering human forms floating upright seems to extend endlessly in all directions.
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Particles flung by the sun
pierce us through, undetected
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It might not seem easy to breathe any love into a name like Father. It’s a stiff word—it’s not soft, like, say, Papa—but sometimes you have to breathe love into names you don’t choose.
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In a corner of a neighbor’s land too stony to till Cob makes a mystery.
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It takes twelve years for the hot water to run out and your skin has not even begun to prune.
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When I was young in the suburbs, there was an empty lot across from our house. Bulldozers cleared the trees, shredded the bushes, and piled mounds of dirt three times as tall as I. But they never built a house.The dirt mounds, chain-link fences, and neon signs were…
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