1618 17 10
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The list of things to live for/
shortens with age. The list of regrets/
lengthens.
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16182011
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The box thuds at your feet: mug, plant, wedding photo, the 25-year pen.
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161800
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The sound of drums blared from down the street. Car horns tried to fight the sound. Mayumi and Keiko saw the size of the crowd walking past them increase.
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161830
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He did it in front of the waiter and everything.
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1618119
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Neglected long enough, uncalled for/
by the shrinking language of the day,//
my words abandon me.
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16181211
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Bag worms hang in their cloudy white hammocks. This is the month of webs when long-bodied yellow and black spiders sign their autographs.
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1618117
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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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161895
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The border crossing at El Paso will soon be arriving. I'm apprehensive about Mexico, all the violence.
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161875
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Independence Day was a Thursday. Frank had been invited to join some Yale Art School classmates in Vermont for a three-day bacchanalia.
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1618112
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Although radiation and chemo rendered him a wraith...
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1618135
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That led to the first aid box on the bed at 3 in the morning, but what about those veggies?
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161800
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I would be the mortal to hand justice to God. It wouldn’t come in the form of steel from a blade or by gun powder of a revolver, but by my disbelief...
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161800
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When my feet touched the ground on the tarmac at Bagram I cannot begin to describe the feeling I had. It was as if God had spoken to me directly, whispering in the cold mountain air: “Son of Marjan, I welcome you.” The feeling took hold and overcame m
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161752
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Almost to the elevation of regret.
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161743
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After dinner, I looked forward to taking a shower and cleansing myself of the day’s mishap. Cher had other plans.As I left the bathroom, Cher nipped me in the butt, taking my towel, skin, and blood with her. I remember writhing on the floor outside my sis
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161764
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We need to keep writing
because the great ones
aren’t always that great
We need to keep writing
to insure that the future
even has a future
We need to keep writing
because the wind won’t know how
or when to listen if we don’t
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161763
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My fingers are shining
in the underwater afterlife of memory
searching for the nipple-sized mollusks
searching for the solid nature of things
left over from having lived a life
at all
That new rain smell, specifically
I remember that,
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1616119
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My wife is making lunch. I suggest leftover pizza. We are going over to the neighbor’s house for pizza tonight, my wife says. I tell her that’s okay. I like pizza.
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161632
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fate is an illusion we use to ease the terror of our mortality
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161632
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Scientists have determined that a tiny freshwater organism known as the "bdelloid rotifer" gave up sex 40 million years ago. And you thought the spark had gone out of your marriage.
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1616115
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when thoughts of you
waffle in through memories scent
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161645
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Jack would have felt betrayed, and my parents alarmed, had they ever suspected me of playing with Jack's guns, but I found the temptation overwhelming.
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161620
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‘Just get out of bed,’ I reply. ‘It looks like the fairies have been at your head. You should turn your clothes inside out. Put out a biscuit. Ring a bell. Buy a rooster; or a recording of it crowing. It will keep the sprites at bay.
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161653
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Smoking is like hooking up with an ex-girlfriend: you know she's bad for you and that it won't work out, but it feels so familiar and comfortable and so easy to slide back into.
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161697
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They rise up, a sullen, sorrowful/
army of reproach, staring,//
stone-faced but eyed with fire.
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161631
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It's Granny hauling her crooked soul into heaven. Guess who I stole that image from?
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1616114
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My spooky cat got out again. Under the deck she ran. Out came the hose that chased her about. Fur spiked, tail pointing, yowling, she hissed at me, and back in the house she pranced. It's been two days now. She slithers out for food after…
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161686
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Get something cheap and light at Target. Trash hell out of it. Encourage baby to urp up in it.
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16161911
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Today the isobars are far apart.
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161510
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[He] practiced aromatherapy and licentiousness, in no particular order.
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