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will we become artifacts?
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1230199
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I screwed my courage to the sticking point and asked him if he had shot down any Japanese airplanes. He grinned at me. “One,” he said.
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1230139
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We mourn/
in perpetuity and are inured
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122964
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She'd still rest her fingers on your back, and her smile still lit the lantern of your soul.
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122943
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I’ve paid my dues in this dimension/
so show me where the rest of them are
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122998
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When the sun was above the treeline, and the hunter returned to the cabin, they were ready for him.
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122976
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—indistinct and foggy, my eyes lost at sea,
confined to a horizon not close to land.
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122932
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The snake-like veins began to pulsate angrily, and viciously about his body. Quickly he rose up about the girl. His heart was now pounding rapidly against his chest. Outstretched, were his wings, the width of the balcony, white and decrepit and old, yet s
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122964
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When he smashed his plate in my lap, the dog hung around, licking my wrist and hoping that he would get some milk, too. With my luck, he'd jump in the pool, getting grass clippings all over the edge. My nails were sharp that day, I had to cut them, and I did while…
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1229167
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122921
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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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122996
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Let's make a monetary enticement for writers who can revel in the magnitude of this tragedy...
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122985
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They are plastering on lipstick in pay-to-enter toilets
around the corner from the mosques, where old men
sit on back streets selling toilet seats, spices by the
shovel, flashlights, and Audrey Hepburn t-shirts
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122955
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This may be too religious for you, as at first it was so with me. But I assure you, on my scholarly integrity, I have found the Genesis Serpent’s skin! Yes, that Genesis Serpent--though just a leftover piece of him,
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12291714
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It shouldn’t take that long to count/
to six but when the six are cats, arithmetic/
assumes Heisenbergian properties/
as the objects counted defy the count.
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122952
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Some books are like old friends and when you read them, you no longer feel alone.
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122986
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Although I think we can easily work it out because we are not here in the Yale graduate school, and diction is the theme of the story. Diction is a choice in language.
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122800
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The tsunami started, ironically enough, with a phone call.
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122833
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Let's buy this robin's egg blue furniture. Okay. Let's buy this album full of wren songs. Uh, okay.
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1228149
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When Uncle Dan got sent to the Alzheimer's ward, the ladies licked their lips. Fresh meat.
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12281310
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Sin by Nonnie Augustine After my mother died, I met Aunt Shirley. I found her in dozens of snapshots piled in falling apart cardboard boxes we hauled down from the attic. Small girls, with huge bows bobby-pinned right on top of…
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1228154
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This cell the sole certainty,
all else steeped in mystery.
Why should we be here?
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122855
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awoke in confusion, fear and hurt never seen before that day a year past
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122842
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Albertine had never loved Agnés. Oh! She had liked her very much. Especially her wit, the skin at the nape of her neck, even the two freckles on her arse that would bloom when licked.
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1228117
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On the bank of the stream, we take off our clothes and dash into the water.
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122841
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My ride, my good friend Morning was due any minute, but of course, he/she was always late. My costume was a dog. I was stuck to another dog, in the act of passion. A stuffed one. A basset hound. I said my name was Lightning.
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122831
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I stared deep into the sepias...
And you touched my soul anew.
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1228107
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In her blanched beauty, seated in a silver deck chair, with complacent socialist ways
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122832
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She looks exactly like my sister, though I do not have a sister.
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122896
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Scientists have discovered what I already did once on dope
way back in the Sixties.
There are so many other earths out there
that they are almost infinite.
Now in our other lives we have to
shuttle from planet to planet
reading our poems. And
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