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He doesn’t intend to lie after this. For now, he just wants to take in the sea and the quiet.
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A delicate thrill buzzed my face.
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Moon Boy sits atop the hill's crest and watches Moon Girl.
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“Hear that?” asks my wife Amy. Books in hand, we relax on our flagstone patio. A shaft of late-day sun borrows through the maples' leafy canopy and deposits a dazzling, sunlit pool on Amy's lap. …
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At this stage of the game you don't even matter enough to have an asshole.
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Route 346 is the way Pop drove to Troy long after everybody else took Route 2. Today Charlie and I drive in the opposite direction. Back then, Pop drove us to Troy on Route 346 on Sunday afternoons with the car windows…
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123844
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I assume the shape of a pronoun.
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She tells me I have to face the fact that I have the heart of the Tin Man. I know the story. He had none. She is very sensitive and I have to measure my remarks because words bruise her so easily. So, I…
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The snow buzzes in the Ritalin air beneath Dairy Queen clouds
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The cataclysm of all those photons/
mad to be a part of you
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123811
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Zorro lived in his mother’s basement until he could get back on his feet.
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in his thin, swanky
black leather jacket
out on the town at night
in Mexico with his girlfriend
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123821
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He repeated these six words like a prayer. His only confession.
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123854
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Many hours to make a brick: many bricks to make a curve.
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fated and cruel, a person I don't love
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123831
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"seventy five degrees longitude
submerged
in holy rivers
out of my mind emerge
anointed paramahamsas"
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1238109
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Cinema Verite’ is the best book of poems I have encountered since Matthea Harvey’s Modern Life
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Harpo sits and looks at something I can't see. I drink beer and ask him questions. I ask him how they found the cancer. Backache, he says. He went to see a doctor.
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12372011
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The suite of dark rooms/
extends forever./
It’s no big deal.
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“I’ll be damned,” he said. “I never knew where that was.”
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123791
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Naked, we stood in my shower. When she kicked my tool, I noticed she had a toe ring.
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123711
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Somewhere, a mathematician is going mad in a box that decreases in size at the same speed it takes the mathematician to find a way to get out. At least he’ll die with an epiphany, which is more than we can say for you.
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"Jesus was a zombie?" I ask, shocked.
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Later I asked Mark if he wanted to watch, but his wife wouldn’t let him. She didn’t like kinky stuff, she said.
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Ahead, she heard voices. She approached very slowly, as quiet as possible. She knelt behind a pair of shrubs and peeked through a small opening.
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The man had decided that this was going to be his last day. He’d find out one final thing and he’d be done. He had spent the last few years of his life unwinding things that had been wound and untying knots that had been tied.
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The last row of furniture is all black leather. In unison the tigers hop onto a couch a piece, sit calmly on their haunches, and reach for remote controls buried in the cushions. Roaring, they paw at the remotes.
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