1723 20 11
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The suite of dark rooms/
extends forever./
It’s no big deal.
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172321
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‘Miguel! A pint of Guinness, please!'
I might as well have asked for his mother's immortal soul. A smile as benign as a stiletto. But he served a clean and tidy pint.
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1723107
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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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1723105
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Brazilian girls yammer
with their book bags
up against my leg.
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172333
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Everyone was shocked when they heard Tinkerbelle was six days gone and had got so heavy she couldn't fly. Who could have done it, everyone asked, but Tinkerbelle wasn't telling. So no one knew. That isn't true. I knew, and in this Declaration I swear I will tell…
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1723169
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If love could only by heat be bound
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1723109
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Strike me down hard, bolt of pure blue, laser focus square, blast of hydrogen nuclear, knock me on the keister, blind me down, oh Lordy Lord Lord.
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172383
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At the third or fourth discotheque I drink so much I accidentally find myself happy.
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172311
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I don’t personally know any models—let alone any supermodels—at this point in my life but some years back my father, who was working for the Woolite Corporation, was in charge of hiring models for them.
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172289
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I thought the Ferris wheel was dumb. All it did was give you a high altitude view of the little Minnesota town where I had grown up.
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1722102
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I had no portent this would occur, /
Ne'er did I see this happening, /
Not days before, nor those coming;
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17221413
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Hunters took 925 bears in the 2020 season in Vermont
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17222013
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172243
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He’d tossed and turned all night, pondering what to do, afraid she was living alone. He’d decided to email her two words: “Love you” and signed it “Scary Sal,” as she’d always seemed so afraid of him.
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17221510
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Weddings, engagements etc.
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172210
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Leda looks back over her shoulder at us as the swan
grips her from behind while at the same time nipping at
the nape of her neck. She's a freckled child and
a little frightened. There's a dark smudge beneath her eye
where the shadow runs. The swan
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172220
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It takes almost an hour before I drift to sleep on the bus. When I wake up in Crescent City, I’m surprised. Maybe I was going somewhere else in my sleep. Walking out of the station, it feels like a strange place. Somewhere I’ve never been before. The
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172200
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If you were the ozone,
I’d want to leave you gaping.
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172196
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A horizon shrinks a burden until it’s a seagull getting fat off vinegar fries. I’m in love with the way your mouth moves when you aren’t talking. When it fills with salt.
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172198
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I think I remember now why people write poetry.
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172143
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"Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut."
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172132
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Jesus was a cancer survivor and possibly a super nova.He ran with the Wolves of night time, with the women of the paleolithic era and hunted for meat when the blood didn't drip to their feet and create veritable red shoes like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.I am no longer in…
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1721138
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Every morning if I don't have to go potty....
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172195
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The border crossing at El Paso will soon be arriving. I'm apprehensive about Mexico, all the violence.
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172175
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Independence Day was a Thursday. Frank had been invited to join some Yale Art School classmates in Vermont for a three-day bacchanalia.
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172121
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Five o’clock, and Madame choosing her evening legs. Elizabeth assisting. Elizabeth will continue to assist until midnight, despite the chaos, at which point the authorities will tell her such assistance is no longer necessary.
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172121
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Cammie Richard's house was just like all the others in Wilchester. The exterior was vaguely reminiscent of the Dutch style; gray stone with cross beams of dark wood, with two stories and a bay window. Her yard was fertilizer green, with a giant STRATFORD FOOTBALL…
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172161
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In his mind, he could hear Eve’s voice, “We had some good times, didn’t we?”
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172132
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She looks exactly like my sister, though I do not have a sister.
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172196
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I cannot begin to list all the ways this conversation can go downhill from here, so I hang up the phone quietly.
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