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Four Quartets is a slender book which/
can be read with intensity in its entirety
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176895
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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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1768128
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1768128
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...ghosts still resentful, ghosts far from home...
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176855
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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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176865
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1768125
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Can’t you do anything right?
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176866
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At night, I wake up, and Daddy's in the bathroom with a hanger in his mouth....
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176801
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And out on that lake that day you yelled “desperation please!”
And I heard “desperate pleas?”
I wondered about first impressions.
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176732
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Scientists have determined that a tiny freshwater organism known as the "bdelloid rotifer" gave up sex 40 million years ago. And you thought the spark had gone out of your marriage.
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176744
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The only silver lining? The man in my life and I are in this together.
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176753
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Sometime in the late 60s when I was thirteen I had this paper route for the San Mateo Times.
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17671920
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It was a pleasant time, my thoughts were mostly good ones, with little effort wasted on regret.
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176712
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“Why do you write filth?” they howl
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17671811
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hoping for a happy outcome/
like a kindly voice on the line
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176763
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If he had not just decapitated a chicken, he was a man I could have loved.
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1767117
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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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176700
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You enter the lobby of the office building tentatively at first - you're a little nervous about this interview, after all - but you recall how spectacular and professional you dressed that morning. Plus you read through the company's LinkedIn profile at least five times…
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17671411
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I visited the grave of Rimbaud. / It was pale blue
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176733
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1767106
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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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176696
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Hey, how are you? she squeaked.
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17661211
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I walked to work back then...
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1766167
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176683
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At the third or fourth discotheque I drink so much I accidentally find myself happy.
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176610
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The separation—the plan—had been a long time coming. After years of fighting and therapy and apologizing and, finally, silence, their marriage was about to die of exhaustion.
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176685
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The strange bones of language
wander the room.
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17661816
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March 16, 2006 My mail, e-mail, and phone calls go from the ridiculous to the sublime. Apologies for the cliché, but I can't resist its perfect applicability: In my mailbox today yet another catalogue of boob jobs in bikinis and an invitation to explore…
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176663
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I'm not sure if this is breaking the rules of Fictionaut, but here's a trailer of a poetry tour of Europe I did earlier this year. We hope to break it down into webisodes soon enough to highlight the brilliant readings, brilliant local poets and such that you can find not…
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176632
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Not a fuss, not a stink,
The eulogy, deep, will make one think,
Grandmother, sat in back, will wink
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