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His note said: “I’m sick of low attendance.”
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Most everything is white because white means clean and hospitals are supposed to be clean. They wouldn’t let me leave.
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I had a crappy room on the fourth floor of a crappy hotel.
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Scavenge at that address only if you feel possessed of great courage, a profound faith in resurrection or reincarnation, or an impatient desire for a premature date with certain death.
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182232
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He was drinking heavily again and complaining that there was nothing fresh worth writing about.
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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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There’s a hole in my sock, just large enough that my big toe keeps slipping out.
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I had a meeting with the editor of a well-known magazine. She said, “I think your paradigm got stuck up your monomyth.” “Oh dear. Is that bad?” “Bad? You want to be a writer, don't you?” “Well, I did. I'm not so sure now.…
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With the morning comes the repetition...
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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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182200
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We dig up conscience-tunnels, pluck the play-flower of present choice for fun, run aground, past this dimly lit, though not to be underestimated, stage, and open door upon empty door, to nothing, for the lights are a pulse flickering in the perceptual per
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Just take the mountain curves
as tightly to the inside and
as fast as surface conditions permit
and the road’s edge
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At street level there is a small arrow on which is printed “Museum of Numbers” that points up a long narrow staircase. There is a restaurant on the first floor. All the way up the stairs, the air is permeated with smell of fried foods
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It was just lying there by the side of the road next to a mailbox, pockets turned out, weeds kinda rolled flat around it. I counted three nickels, a dime, and a cigar butt too. I could sure use the change for gum, but I didn't want to get near it. It looked dead,…
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the steady, persistent work of beauty
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"This tastes like goat cheese," I said.
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I'll never be a Republican Megadonor or a Doomed Aviatrix. But I'm okay with that.
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182132
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I've heard of sucessful marriages where there's very little sex.
My heart aches for that kind of love.
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love weaves a perforated web
between the spikes
of longing
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I am eternal/
as long as the power holds
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My wife and I were looking for a "fixer-upper." We were strange that way. We were leaving a rental which had cat tunnels built into the walls. One villa we toured had a heartbeat. In the basement, in place of a well pump, was a heart made of fibrous roots which had…
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Don’t worry about what went aloud. I said nothing.
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God's honest truth, I wake up every morning when my clock punches out its dulcet, insistent clangs, a setting called Ultra Zen Up & Out. I brush my teeth with a blue dollar store toothbrush and watch one of the five morning TV shows designed to let me know the weather…
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”My goodness how that child nurses hope,” Edward’s Grandad would often say, “were it not for her where indeed would this family be?”
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“Man, that Fats just nothin’ but a powerhouse, nothin’ but ‘Jesus Rolled Away the Stone’ and them Cats his apostles.” La KeeSha replied, “Ya’ll a real Blues Daddy now.”
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Suds, like gossamer bandages at her wrists, concealed the turbulence below but could not relieve it.
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You are walking through a canyon made of shelving units lined with colorful masterpieces of three-dimensional minimalist design
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