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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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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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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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but I pretend again I've kept the prairie/
out, have battled back the smoke and dirt
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I can take you away, away, away.
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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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“Are you my neighbor in 3D?” Was she?
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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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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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Harris Tobiasharristob@gmail.comThe Alarm A terrible clanging in the middle of the night roused me from my bed. I put on some clothes and hurried into the street there to mingle with my bleary eyed neighbors. At first we thought it was a fire but there was…
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This woman is naked to the waist and then nakeder below that.
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Oh to be young and vigorous.
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Kitchen.
sandwich.
wife.
daughter.
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The place is buzzing with little women, all clad in black smocks.
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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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Oh, what jealousy does to us! What love does to the living!
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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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All creatures know death at their very core, a tacit default--
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We are moments away from the end, and it feels like it.
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I travel over your body with small feet,
reach your heart.
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they got some heat here in the West
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The elephant kept popping in and out of the savannah--which is to say, in and out of existence. It was an African bush elephant, which made this trick even more impressive.
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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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not that we ever had before
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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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Writing as a form of imaginative hatred
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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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