1790 3 3
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Don’t worry about what went aloud. I said nothing.
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179098
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This is the parallel room I keep my heart in. Got a solo fireplace. I don't want to invite anything else into the story. It doesn't matter if no one knocks on the door ever again. I'm too shy to hope for much more than a couple of Interesting shadows…
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179084
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"This tastes like goat cheese," I said.
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179078
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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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178962
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We’re on our way out, my brother and me, to the graveyard.
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178910
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I'm completely naked in an unheated basement, about 40 first year university students, most of them female, are staring at my ridiculous waif-like body.
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17892216
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They come to mind/
like ice flowers/
on the small panes
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178931
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1. there's nothing more to say about it and I don't want to be drawn2. beautiful she couldn't hear me anyway I was desperate and there were moths3. they'd replaced his head with a picture of the moon he looked4. none of them were speaking English more like a ticking a…
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178922
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"Honey," I called out to my wife. "Why do we have Spam in the closet?"
"You mean unsolicited bulk messages sent electronically?"
"No--the canned, precooked meat product made by the Hormel Corporation."
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178943
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Viewed correctly, nature is an inexhaustible storehouse of clichés. A successful landscape is their pleasing rearrangement.
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178900
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I went out behind Parker's house and saw Darrell's tent set up in the grass. The flaps of the pup tent were open. I could see him through the mosquito netting. He had a Coleman lamp burning and lay on his back in his underwear on top of his sleeping bag.
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178966
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No one writes epics anymore. Why? Perhaps it's because we no longer share mythologies. Once there was a shepherd, and now there is a Google bus loaded with pricks. Yes, you say, but they are good at math. Each and every one of them. And this is true. I envy them…
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178976
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He leans in close then, close enough that when he speaks, his words tiptoe out and tuck me in.
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178921
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My music teacher, Luigi Biagi, told me that he was done with me. He said it was time I moved on to more specialized teachers. Since my passion was composing and arranging, he recommended Al Fine.
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1789116
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One must not confuse the meaning / of life with the joy of living
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178842
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I think for a second that I should have called my husband out to witness this thing, but I am instantly made aware of why I have not.
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1788117
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He said stuff like
‘Crikey that's a knife',” she said, “it was bad, really
really bad.”
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178777
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178700
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There is a feeling in my hands,
fingers,
a restive, potential energy,
drawing inward, reaching
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17871413
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Hunters took 925 bears in the 2020 season in Vermont
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17871813
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One must be drenched in words.
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178754
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But no matter how we died, we all end up here, in the Meadowlark Children's Cemetery.
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178786
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Your faded presence in sepia dream returns, firelight whispers and vanilla scented ash. We were a beautiful knot: sinew and hemp, burlap and magnolia petal, concrete and vapor. Gray kisses hovered overhead, misty…
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178743
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Still no rain. Eight months, says Hollister. More like nine, says James Earl. We stand in Hollister’s high meadow, what’s left of it.
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1787127
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as i sink down into the
shadows crawling like a worm
past cold bricks
centuries old in my blood
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1787137
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His note said: “I’m sick of low attendance.”
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178766
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The coffin-sized pit in his basement wasn’t freshly dug.
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1787123
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178721
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Four nights out of sevenI will lay with youFour nights out of sevenIt's the best I can do In the day, we will bake our breadAt night, ha, we will break our bed!Four nights out of seven, I will be with you
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178742
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Renee said, "I have actually slept with a number of Captains of Industry and would rate them, overall, deficient in skills."
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