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"Did I have a dream, or did the dream have me?" - Rush, "Nocturne"
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What in the name of God’s green earth does this say? “Chifferobe if you can of Aztec in coffee can”?
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She looks exactly like my sister, though I do not have a sister.
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She caretakes, he takes care
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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"He turns in his bed, and reaches for a body,
like the blind to braille."
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Neglected long enough, uncalled for/
by the shrinking language of the day,//
my words abandon me.
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So, I escaped from the Iron Curtain out of Czechoslovakia, as was called then. That was in 1956 I escaped, and came to Chicago where all of you were for some time already. I know our grandparents came over in early part of century, but my part of family
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At the third or fourth discotheque I drink so much I accidentally find myself happy.
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It's the little things that trip us
up: a small hole in a level field,
an innocuous root in a well-trod
path, a disinclined sidewalk...
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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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The night wrapped its arms around us as we drove west, taking the highway past Medford towards Philly. The kids were asleep in the backseat and we were both counting the mile markers, staring out the windows with quiet eyes. I listened to the drone of the…
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IT's like, 15 words. Do you really need a snippet?
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At five a family relative took my life away from me and no one cared
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The moon is now at the corner on pace for the horizon. On top of a tall business building in Downtown Newark stop a woman in a hood cloak.
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He was supposed to be a garden gnome. Give pause to the squirrels, keep an eye on the impatiums. We found him at Wegman’s. He looked hopeful and observant.
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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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he took me hostage as I came out the door.
Nelson took me hostage and we went back to his parents' house. They were gone crappie fishing so I had to spend the whole weekend alone with him. I didn't have anything lined up for Saturday night, so it wasn'
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Everyone else in the bar was looking everywhere else: it was as though they were alone while Journey played loudly all around. “Streetlights, people,” she sang. Time didn't move. What she must be like while driving, singing to herself with the windows fog
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A wrinkled man lie atop an ivory-clad mattress, matched sheets covered his body, matched hair covered his head.
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Only scotch and cheap champagne/
retain their reliable flavors.
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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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And the ocean was black and green and blue—as your dress that clung to your body’s curve. Round as the bend of the water trailing the false line of the shore.
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The suite of dark rooms/
extends forever./
It’s no big deal.
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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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