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Flames dance behind glass
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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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Linus had it right with the security blanket he held like a beloved pet swan. Geneva had it all wrong with a pastel-colored music box, painted with impressionist-styled daisies and tied up in gold-ribbed pink bow. But it had come from her grandmother. Her
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I crave the confines of the convent
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published in The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review.
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Uh oh, the dry cleaning ticket
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Parsimony, Sage Advice, Alimony, and Time.
That would be one.
The Waste Land. The Hollow Men. The Red Wheelbarrow.
There are others,
But I have definite shoe anxiety dreams and can’t get over them.
Do not Go Gently Into That Good Night. Alone
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Dinner conversation reminds me of the chatter of birds. Happy talk. Nothing real.
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One by one our friends are kicking the bucket. Let's get together. It's now or never, we figure.
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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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There won't be dancing, anymore. That isn't true, that can't be true; but there is no floor to dance on, you know?
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At the third or fourth discotheque I drink so much I accidentally find myself happy.
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"Did I have a dream, or did the dream have me?" - Rush, "Nocturne"
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Afterward, at the motel, I asked her why she liked sex so much, and she said she liked the taste.
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I started walking around the Jube like any other sheep, lemming, or penguin: passing plate glass windows, one after another.
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Jesus came strolling
by in his sandally Jesus foot sandals.
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I have two of those hand exercisers jamming the
tray and keeping it locked in place
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I have committed to nothing. Therefore I have committed to something. The first sentence is now moot, and this story will eat itself.
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The money stank on the table. Money is dirty she said, one of the dirtiest things. So many people touch it. This pile of brine would not explain its reek, only demanded that we accepted its stench as requisite. It had to have been the cash that stank, prior to its arrival…
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That dog again; enduring love.
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fate is an illusion we use to ease the terror of our mortality
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Your mother is a great and dying bird. Once, she tended her grand feathered nest. Once, she preened.
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I travel over your body with small feet,
reach your heart.
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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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so I tighten hands with my castaway and say/you failed to impress in your folded peacock dress
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During what's called "Children's time," one day at church Sarah slides her left foot halfway out of her tiny ballet slipper to show Davie her toenails are painted the same soft pink as the inside of her shoe. "Look," she says. "My…
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Kick your employer in the ass. Emotions are strange experiments in honesty.
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Abominables do roam the earth; I know it.
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The water rolls gently this evening, barely touching my toes before retreating. The tide has been going out for over an hour and already there are several victims – crustaceans, spider crabs, minnows.
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