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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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Get something cheap and light at Target. Trash hell out of it. Encourage baby to urp up in it.
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162553
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"I made up my mind then, in the backseat, sucking on a cherry Popsicle, that I wanted to be like Ruby’s mother..."
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162510
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[He] practiced aromatherapy and licentiousness, in no particular order.
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The list of things to live for/
shortens with age. The list of regrets/
lengthens.
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162522
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I think fat will just appear, like a narcotics cop at my door, or something.
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162530
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He did it in front of the waiter and everything.
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Mama sleeps in bed with us. The blue of her ghost sleeps underneath me. I love her more than anything. What does she think when we are naked, when we yell, or mimic, imbibe, curse, cry, shake, make love, roll over on her, want to die?
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1625135
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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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I reached for that hair and the air zagged white...
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“What would you think if I committed adultery?”
She pauses very briefly before replying.
“What, you got time on your hands?”
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For the residents of Oak Morrow, entropy is an art form. They break their own windows and crash their cars into their living rooms. Grannies and pets can usually scoot out of the way before they’re crushed under the juggernaut of creativity.
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"I who?" Mrs Caterpillar slithered closer to the door, peeping through the peephole with her stemma. Upon visual inspection, she discovered that it was Mr Earthworm standing outside in the rain.
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Neglected long enough, uncalled for/
by the shrinking language of the day,//
my words abandon me.
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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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but I pretend again I've kept the prairie/
out, have battled back the smoke and dirt
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Ok, so I’m sitting here trying to write through a frigging cold. And I. . .Oops, . . . . . . wait a sec!. . . I’m stopped, astounded, stunned between coughing my left lung clear over my keyboard and watching it flopping on the back of my desk. . .
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Although radiation and chemo rendered him a wraith...
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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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With such demeaning precarity, I can’t read/
anything more than a thousand words
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He reveled in the chase, giddy when just out of arm’s reach. When to catch him, that was the question.
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Their nouns are few and stark./
Ours are numerous and dappled/
or subtly shaded and shadowed/
by circumstance and possibility.
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162311
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Will wondered if Doobie was afraid that it might be nothing but the abyss waiting on the other side, but he promised Doobie he’d let him pass on if it was finally his time.
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162385
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When the malady struck and the world fell dark at noon, she and I groped the walls and found our front door. Outside, bewildered, we heard the whine of jets in free-fall, explosions in the imagined distance. And we heard a car — or was it a truck that veered…
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Mostly, though, reiteration of the old/
in an idiosyncrasy that strives/
to become fresh and fails
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fate is an illusion we use to ease the terror of our mortality
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Outlined against the thinly layered darkness of the room, there is a silhouette of a small boy with his feet pulled up to the chin, failing to hold its own against the thousand stares from the deep violating the stillness of his room, their long familiarity with the…
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I'm a lot wiser now but so what?
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Trollo Martinez was wearing a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses and an old LA Community College T-Shirt. He needed to find some water so he could down the 5milligram tab of Ritalin in the palm of his hand.
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