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Karen likes to make a big deal about life experience. Specifically how much more she has than me. What that actually means, she's never made clear. The definition changes and mutates as the years go by, always in her…
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I call him a Staffordshire terrier. You call him a pit bull. Some people say he's lovable. Other people say he'll bite your face off without thinking too hard.
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"...innocent butterflies of pollution
trapped and entangled,"
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Satchmo sings a love song over the sound system. People read books, tap keyboards, drink coffee, eat cake. In Barnes & Noble—more a coffee shop these days than a bookstore—I am thinking about my dad and his stomach cancer.The terror he…
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It’s like drawing with Cesium
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Some fiftysomething woman with a small dog in her arms was waiting for him, backstage. Security hadn't succeeded in restraining her. Strange.
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Once, asked what time it was, M. replied, "Eternity."
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Come, bring your sadness
to the precipice of my body,
bury it within me like a tool
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I start with a morsel of truth, then hide it with lies...
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Marge bought the rug on-line.
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I didn't care for parties when Jackie was alive and I donot like them now. Deborah, our daughter,…
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I think I remember now why people write poetry.
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She smacked his back a couple of times with the flat of her hand
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"Isn't it time to remove the nails, and put Jesus to rest once and for all," Mary asks.
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Hours. Hours, bygone. He said, “Come to me all liquored up and you know what’s gonna happen.” Sure. It was every bit true, what he said, six months bygone, chewing off cuticle scabs somewhere out west.
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There’s a hole in my sock, just large enough that my big toe keeps slipping out.
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Fortunately, when the bird hits the sliding glass doors in our den, I know what to do.
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I didn’t always have this metal thing poking out of the top of my head. I used to be a self-respecting farm animal amongst a barnyard of toys, but then the kids grew up.
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The thing Bentley remembered most about her was she had no body odor. None.
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When I think about love, I actually think about life. And when I think about that, I wonder if we’re really who we used to be.
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"What is a vageena?" I wanted to know.
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... we both know how we go to fresh air like fish, gasping.
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He hid in parks and abandoned apartment houses until his wounds healed. He ate nuts, berries, and seeds. A shy, gentle soul, he watched children playing on the monkey bars, and thought of his lost youth.
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feathered waves of tangerine peach
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Twice burned, it buries its graves.
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I am heading to work. It's early and Clare is still asleep. When I hit the breezeway I realize that I forgot my keys. I walk back into the house and start rustling through the junk on the table by the door. After a moment I sense someone standing behind me and…
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Sometimes they bleat like sheep when I shave in the shower. They live in a complex social order.
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Our Lord Savior Google/ answers prayers without prejudice/ and leaves the self-hatred up to you
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