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We can apprehend beauty only/
by framing it with the photographic/
paper’s edge or the novel’s margins/
and bookends.
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157194
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Oh, what jealousy does to us! What love does to the living!
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1571109
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Now comfy is as comfy does, but when sleeping strange, please accept a wide range of cradle, crib, cave.
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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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15702114
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Walking to class, Paula routinely fishes around in her purse to be sure the condom she thinks of as a close friend, even naming it Rhonda, is in there to help her avoid a pregnancy yet, even so, Paula admits that sometimes she daydreams in that boring economics class,…
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157085
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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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157011
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No, I’m not at the junior high bus stop. I’m at the dining room table with my parents.
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157022
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I think fat will just appear, like a narcotics cop at my door, or something.
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157010
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Lu peeked at his cards again. They were still jacks, and they still looked mighty nice.
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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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15701612
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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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1570155
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I thought, what are we talking about? Botox?
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15702111
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Guys on safari wearing safari jackets shoot things all day, things with funny names …
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156965
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“Can I feel it?” he reached his hands out immediately, expecting I’d say yes. I am the type to always say yes, right?
“Sure.” I confirmed, swallowing back my fear of his touch. He didn’t seem himself, like this. I led his hands to my hips and let them
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156952
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Almost to the elevation of regret.
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1569168
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Their specialty is the roasted Australian hare, long ears intact, arranged on a bed of sassafras.
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156933
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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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1569126
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All creatures know death at their very core, a tacit default--
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1569139
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Writing as a form of imaginative hatred
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156965
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the names / she carried (within)
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15691211
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Coward, cuckold, she taunts: So be it. He's not a young man anymore, nor as clever as he once was, or thought.
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156921
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In the dark, alone after she was gone, he would whisper her name into his pillow and fight the tears more out of shear exhaustion than anything else. He had mourned for her even before she had passed, as he watched helpless while the disease marched slowly and…
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She was about 35 or so and noticeably pregnant. She was near hysteria when she knocked on our apartment door, right across the street in L.A. from a convent. But she took one last desperate wild look at me, standing at the door. I saw the animal in her ey
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You enter the lobby of the office building tentatively at first - you're a little nervous about this interview, after all - but you recall how spectacular and professional you dressed that morning. Plus you read through the company's LinkedIn profile at least five times…
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156900
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It was where the “Suits” worked. I didn’t want to go there, I didn’t want to be there, but in those days one did what one was supposed to do.
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You are a space-walker and a time-traveler...
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156977
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She caretakes, he takes care
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156821
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The other night while we stood in the kitchen locked in each other's stone silence, he finally said, “You're waiting for something to get you to the other side of grief. But there's no such thing.”
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The list of things to live for/
shortens with age. The list of regrets/
lengthens.
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