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It was a phone call we never expected. You were so full of life and joy and the sound of your laugh was pierced in our minds. Two strokes. That's what they said. No explanation, no back story. We worried we would lose you. Immediately, all of our memories with you started…
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Lucy looked up, smiled and said mine had a head that looked like a mushroom. I suppose she was right. We were sitting on the floor drawing naked bodies for our anatomy lesson and teasing each other about our lack of drawing talent. We were new friends, having met when…
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I watch from the cabin window the death of the sun, hear the howl of the new-born storm.
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Somewhere in her the name triggers/
a grainy chain of Cheech & Chong
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Hideki likes the uncomfortable face one makes when trying to "break wind" after eating too many dried potatoes.
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I know what he meant.
I've been in the 3 A.M. cream cheese.
I've known the hole in the bagel.
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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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Most loss control specialists wear standard rent-a-cop outfits, but notSister Joseph Arimathea and Sister Mary Clarus, who wear the grey, white and black habits of the Precious Blood Sisters.
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Guys on safari wearing safari jackets shoot things all day, things with funny names …
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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What does she have / that I don’t have / that I can’t buy / for myself?
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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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A sturdy and goatish original by know-nothing punks from the sticks. Who cares if we were puny and smelled like fresh milk? For a few years we played and rocked, even turned the Appalachian soundscape a little brown at the edges. At least at first. Mainly
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Lu peeked at his cards again. They were still jacks, and they still looked mighty nice.
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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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Twice burned, it buries its graves.
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An action oriented solution for bovinity
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woke up to the sound of a diesel
looked out the window to see i’m not home
outta bed to see if you had called
not a damn thing on my phone
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The heat was different in the 90's Car rides played all the right tunes, and early, Saturday mornings echoed explosions of excitement, and neighborly visits Apartments; one beige body; filled our LA slum, street Sprinklers colored the hot…
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Almost to the elevation of regret.
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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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One by one our friends are kicking the bucket. Let's get together. It's now or never, we figure.
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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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as i sink down into the
shadows crawling like a worm
past cold bricks
centuries old in my blood
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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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I travel over your body with small feet,
reach your heart.
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They stand together in the doorway looking at the crib.
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With such demeaning precarity, I can’t read/
anything more than a thousand words
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Oh to be young and vigorous.
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