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In the cicada's cry No sign can foretell How soon it must dieBasho "Hear the locusts?" The woman lifts the child's head. "Hear em, baby?" The child looks blankly in the…
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It was hard to believe that, even very recently, there had been first days of school where nothing happened.
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I am abandoned to the mundane/
calculations of a small mind/
trapped by small considerations
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What purpose other than misery/
can cancer serve? And Parkinson's,/
AIDS, and STDs?
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"They treat us like shit," the mathematician said. "They think they can just take us and electrocute us and drown us."
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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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Often I eat lunch at the hospital. The cafeteria may be the best place to eat in town.
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We’re on our way out, my brother and me, to the graveyard.
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Why won’t my parakeet eat my diarrhea?
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“Hey honey. How are you?” The man sat down in the office chair, his cell phone pressed against his ear. Light peeked beneath the closed door from the main area of…
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In the dream Yesler rolled, a broad avenue made of fine yellow dust, from Third down toward Second, and I made my way in the silence and bright morning air. To my left on the corner of Second stood the old Mocambo cafe and lounge, home to drag…
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The weatherman can't predict
accumulation. He can only tell you
it will be cold. Expect ice, wind, snow, expect
delays. Your daughters play outside,
dancing around the Evergreen, its branches
bearing the weight of snow, its branches
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He lost his patience and began ranting and raving, angry that he had to come home every night and feel like he was being smothered by a pillow. “I can’t make it stop,” she said. “I can’t make myself stop feeling this way.”
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But those burning red numbers persist in my mind
and I can't rest 'till they're gone
They always come back
Like the cat in that childhood song.
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I have/been you/years before/of course
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“Choices overwhelmed us,” Thomas continued, years later, “like waves crashing.”
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"Jesus was a zombie?" I ask, shocked.
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Where you used to exist, there will only be spaces.
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Beautiful kids in sunglasses dashed around as colourful as jars of mixed fruit in the warm air of a midsummer’s night drinking on the riverbank, the bar sheltered under a crusty wooden shack, the sight was stunning in the twilight before the sun rose.
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Scales were installed on station platforms. Those who were overweight were turned away
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So strange this feelingTo meet someone I've haven't really metTo know someone I don't actually knowTo desire to learn more but sure I never willTo feel connected not knowing what I'm connected toTo read words, thoughts, feel moved by them, but never hear a voice
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I built the fence myself, strong and high and aesthetically pleasing. It was high enough to provide privacy on both sides, but from my bedroom balcony I could see everything. More than I wanted to see.
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The separation—the plan—had been a long time coming. After years of fighting and therapy and apologizing and, finally, silence, their marriage was about to die of exhaustion.
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Either they got married in the church dressed in their mothers’ bridal gowns, gaudy and ancient dresses with off-white lace faded from years of hanging in the attic, or they snuck down to city hall...
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Each person in each car could be poetic/
Duende, but they look at each other and ask/“Did you fart?”
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My only celebrity anecdote involves seeing Barbara Bush in the back of the Presidential limo ...
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Julie and I had been dating for almost a year when she slipped her vagina under my door on her way to work.
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We have always been a trashy species./
We study ourselves by examining/
garbage-- a pile of mussel shells here,
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Try it with and without/
middle name or middle initial.//
Try different keywords.
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