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[He] practiced aromatherapy and licentiousness, in no particular order.
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...the loving and very painful hurt of our daily sustenance
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She'd no doubt catch the guy's eye in the act, flash her smile and laugh in his face as an insult or invitation, depending on how she wanted things to go.
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But no matter how we died, we all end up here, in the Meadowlark Children's Cemetery.
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when thoughts of you
waffle in through memories scent
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Henry and I had met at the hospital. He'd been forty years my senior, but we'd been in for precisely the same reason: kidney stones.
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Falling Water almost fell./
12 million dollars later//
it will splay itself a little longer
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Only scotch and cheap champagne/
retain their reliable flavors.
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the steady, persistent work of beauty
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As a boy I fished under the Tappan Zee bridge which spans the Hudson River above New York City.
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"...you are a freak of nature..."
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The next thing we knew, the KGB started tailing us everywhere we went. They must have heard about Lenin’s Paintings, was all we could figure. Because, what if they were real?
That night we went out to a pizza place where we saw the worst graffiti in t
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There's this sepia-toned photograph, which my mother gave me, of my brother and me when we were still both youngsters. In the picture my brother's dressed in a skimpy checked suit whose sleeves were already too short for him — on its way to becoming my
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There is an empty space,
between every note in rock 'n' roll,
where they have buried John Bonham,
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love weaves a perforated web
between the spikes
of longing
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I didn’t question any of it and instead sat motionless as she dropped my wrists and walked away seconds later.
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The chipping sound started around the time Susannah reached puberty. Not all at once, it was just now and then at first.“What's that noise?” she'd say, and everyone would cock their heads to listen. Her mother eventually took her to the doctor. He said it…
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You're thinking I don't have a conscience, right? I'm asking you.
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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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Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
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The suite of dark rooms/
extends forever./
It’s no big deal.
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To be honest, I've always wanted to be black
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Hurried, hassling suit in front of me is being awful to the barista. So she refuses to serve him, turning away.
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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I don't know how long I was down on the curb. When I came around it took several minutes to realize that it wasn't the moon overhead at all but a street light and the sticky feeling stuff I was lying in was, yeah, my blood. And the hand on my shoulder wasn't hers. I…
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And there sat one man. Searching for words and solace. The silence returned and the colors peeled off from the walls. Darkness returned with fledgling light. He threw back his head and filled the emptiness with his laugh. He laughed in mirth and in misery
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Weddings, engagements etc.
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