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I remember mad strong words out of a teenager, fresh from the shower without a blouse: First! He will be my age, period! He will be the first to walk me to my room as my fear crashes to earth, final, considered.
And I will be the first to milk the w
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170767
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Just take the mountain curves
as tightly to the inside and
as fast as surface conditions permit
and the road’s edge
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170733
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170700
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This summer they had reached their fifth anniversary, the landmark they’d dubbed the Bacchanal year. Instead of exchanging gifts made of wood, they’d bought expensive wines and champagnes and emancipated their bodies of clothing for two straight days. The
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170676
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So, I escaped from the Iron Curtain out of Czechoslovakia, as was called then. That was in 1956 I escaped, and came to Chicago where all of you were for some time already. I know our grandparents came over in early part of century, but my part of family
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170687
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But what if it grew into a nasty tea party-ish bimbo right winger -- a little Michelle Bachmann nubbin?
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170621
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I am far from home, wherever that is.
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170675
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A performance is a series of situations. Each situation defines the characters that are in it.
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170610
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Alicia got to third block early and scribbled down some of the derivatives homework. Others trickled in intermittently, drifting to their seats like impurities getting caught in a filter.
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170691
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The television volume softens in the shadows.
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170610
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It's difficult to remember, much less write down, the hard times you thought were unforgettable when you have a full stomach. It's hard to remember that dirty little room you rented in that house, from a Bosnian landlord, on 27th avenue and Missouri. The…
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170687
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170530
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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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170500
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When you have lived with pain so long, you grow old and the old man inside of you takes over. That’s just the way it is.
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170574
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You're a good dog, she whispered to him, a good brave dog. Her face was tight with soap.
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170510
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Lise started making up words when she lost her voice.
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1705117
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On his knees
he divinates diverging lines
with belly laughs he levitates
the rebel spheres into geodes .
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170521
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Judith was a bed wetter. Judith was a first-year college student and she was embarrassed that she wet the bed.
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170521
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I knew nothing about the letter at first. When I came in that morning and smiled and said good morning, it was a genuine smile and a heartfelt good morning. But the letter, which had arrived the previous afternoon, was already doing its corrosive work of
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170521
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The car has been parked there for slightly more than a day now, and nothing has occurred—there’s nothing “unusual,” nothing “amiss.” Except that it’s there, still, as he follows his boys to school.
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170567
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I start with a morsel of truth, then hide it with lies...
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1705106
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Rarely is Quay Street so clean,
Monday in rain,
Neactain’s ticking over with
Slow jazz and crosswords,
Stout and steaming anoraks.
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It’s Sunday- no need to shave-/
but shave, I do. A little act//
of discipline in the discipline/
of routine.
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The place is buzzing with little women, all clad in black smocks.
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170400
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There are three ways I can love you, not even half of one more.
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170497
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It doesn't have to be force grown betweenus. We entwine naturally. It's agood feeling to have a friend who at oncedoesn't require a hothouse ceiling laidbetween each invisible touch. There's justwind. There's just rain. There's just sun. There's just you.There's just…
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17042311
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The missions never change:/
To plant a bed of fast-blooming/
Flowers of annihilation/
Across an unspecific plain.
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170400
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At street level there is a small arrow on which is printed “Museum of Numbers” that points up a long narrow staircase. There is a restaurant on the first floor. All the way up the stairs, the air is permeated with smell of fried foods
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170422
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Sit back n enjoy the show in a puffy puffed-up chair
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170476
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Uh oh, the dry cleaning ticket
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