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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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Why is the sky grey he asked meI don't know, I saysudden flashes of light snowbloat the cloudssea gulls are squawkingexpect them to peck at my headI have nothing to feed them
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It distresses me that you will never lust after me /
the way you did for that girl /
who had her hands around your belt
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I imagined the crystals in my mouth.
Salt flowers blooming on my tongue.
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If you've ever cleaned house because a death is coming,you know it's the same as any other kind of cleaning.Wipe the tables.Pick up the floor.Sweep the crumbs under the carpet.For later.And for the ants.It's different, too.Because you're floating.On caffeine.On muffled…
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We got Bob Dylan on the wall
wriggling from the lack of music
and light among the spheres
A great doubt has been raised
and can be seen from far, far away
for they are even afraid now in heaven
that things can’t be going right
and to
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She smacked his back a couple of times with the flat of her hand
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I didn’t question any of it and instead sat motionless as she dropped my wrists and walked away seconds later.
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It's a good thing too—because Of the way that feeling Made her even more beautiful than usual. You shouldn't doubt such an obvious Feeling. It's a good thing— Because frankly you have Been informed before. When Beauty …
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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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My only celebrity anecdote involves seeing Barbara Bush in the back of the Presidential limo ...
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Our ink was disappearing. All of it.
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Be careful when you choose your muse,
for she may be a siren.
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He doesn’t intend to lie after this. For now, he just wants to take in the sea and the quiet.
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On Saturdays, we pull out big white poster boards, magic markers, and draw babies.
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We have a responsibility,” she says, “to enrich our local business community while delivering quality products to customers.” She had brought over some application forms for the Better Business Bureau, and we sit at the big table and fill them out, marki
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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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Although radiation and chemo rendered him a wraith...
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When we take Vengeance,/
shave and shower him,/
deodorize and scent him,/
clothe him in a starched shirt
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You know moments like these. You know how your mother ruins them.
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One must be drenched in words.
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The box thuds at your feet: mug, plant, wedding photo, the 25-year pen.
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It takes almost an hour before I drift to sleep on the bus. When I wake up in Crescent City, I’m surprised. Maybe I was going somewhere else in my sleep. Walking out of the station, it feels like a strange place. Somewhere I’ve never been before. The
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They'd taken so much: ivory, rubber, copper, gold. Wealth for the grabbing. No remorse.
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They are plastering on lipstick in pay-to-enter toilets
around the corner from the mosques, where old men
sit on back streets selling toilet seats, spices by the
shovel, flashlights, and Audrey Hepburn t-shirts
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We crept to the edge of the cliff and stared down at Lake Travis. In this alcove, out of the churn of the speedboats and pleasure craft, the water shimmered, impossibly blue.
“Didn’t you used to jump off here back when you were getting high?” Ryan said
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I had no portent this would occur, /
Ne'er did I see this happening, /
Not days before, nor those coming;
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