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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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I think fat will just appear, like a narcotics cop at my door, or something.
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They stand together in the doorway looking at the crib.
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The truth about the bird and the snake is this. They are dead. And me? I cannot stop thinking about them.
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157535
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I was sitting on the steps in the entryway to our apartment building taking off my running shoes when I spotted a paperclip on the floor. I assumed it had fallen from the mail that my wife had just taken from our mailbox. Once my shoes were removed, I went down to pick…
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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157555
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What does she have / that I don’t have / that I can’t buy / for myself?
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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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1575127
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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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15751310
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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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157575
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In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God. What on Earth does that mean? What the hell? Earth, hell, heaven, they were good concepts. He took a rib out of Adam and began to write with it.
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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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15751612
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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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1575105
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"Some Purgatory in order, innit?"
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the swan drives a car ( window down; wing half hanging out ) …
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...Loves and fights and retires; / And dies.
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With such demeaning precarity, I can’t read/
anything more than a thousand words
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15751211
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When I no longer know you, what signal will you give to remind me that you and I once loved?
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157400
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“We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'," said Dostoevsky. Well, sometimes, I think otherwise.
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15741710
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The list of things to live for/
shortens with age. The list of regrets/
lengthens.
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After Jonesy entered the bear habitat, he walked up to the biggest bear in the group and punched it square in the nose. The bear was visibly startled. I mean, bears don’t get punched that often. And there’s a reason: bears are ferocious animals.
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157410
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Lu peeked at his cards again. They were still jacks, and they still looked mighty nice.
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There was something about her eyes that he couldn't shake.
He stood in line, waiting for his chicken finger tenders and one large size 32 oz. cola. No salad (a childhood aversion he had never abandoned), and no mashed potatoes. Friday night and the eve
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157485
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Twice burned, it buries its graves.
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157464
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An action oriented solution for bovinity
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1574109
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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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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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No, I’m not at the junior high bus stop. I’m at the dining room table with my parents.
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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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