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the swan drives a car ( window down; wing half hanging out ) …
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15801414
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A wrinkled man lie atop an ivory-clad mattress, matched sheets covered his body, matched hair covered his head.
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158097
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The day you came to the wedding the sky was so, so brightly July./ I saw my face where I left it the last time . . . .
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15802913
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With such demeaning precarity, I can’t read/
anything more than a thousand words
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1579127
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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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157911
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i killed a poetic boy yesterday. the old ladies in theshadows swore at him when he was walking home proud ashell with a new pocketknife. they told him we dienext week so laugh like you got limes for balls. hecalled them drippy old vultures in his native tongue.they didn't…
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157975
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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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157974
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I can take you away, away, away.
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1579102
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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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1579105
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"Some Purgatory in order, innit?"
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157953
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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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15791613
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Their nouns are few and stark./
Ours are numerous and dappled/
or subtly shaded and shadowed/
by circumstance and possibility.
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15791410
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Oh to be young and vigorous.
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15782114
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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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157830
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“Listen, Mother – you’re my ticket out of this burg and I’m not about to cash it in!”
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157885
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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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157821
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An undercover agent posed as an Orthodox Jewish woman in a sting operation that led to the arrest of two rabbis for kidnapping men who refused to grant divorces to their wives.
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157854
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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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157800
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It seemed like only yesterday that she was making sure to remember bottles for Hunter and now he was eating regular adult food, and they were looking into tutors for next year, and Hunter was nearly four. Her runty Hunty umpkins was going to be four.
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15783020
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We are moments away from the end, and it feels like it.
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15781211
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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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1578155
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I thought, what are we talking about? Botox?
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157894
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“Are you my neighbor in 3D?” Was she?
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157884
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When Roger was small his two favorite toys were a tiny, squat doll called Care and a rubber millipede.
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157800
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We all ran out of the house into the communal garden without fences. There stood Von Rotten with a smoking rifle in his hands, and our mascot Digger lying on his side, limp. We all looked at each other in disbelief.
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1578109
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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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157774
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not that we ever had before
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1577126
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All creatures know death at their very core, a tacit default--
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157711
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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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1577139
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Writing as a form of imaginative hatred
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