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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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178010
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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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178021
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Miriam forced herself to focus on the kitchen door and on putting one foot in front of the other.
“Is everything alright?” she heard Ada ask the family.
“Of course, everything is fine,” the woman said. “What could be wrong other than the impossible serv
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178000
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You are like gasoline on the fire of my desire–you send me higher and higher into paroxysms of earth-shaking erotic explosions. Remember–the “light” catfood is the kind in the turquoise bag.
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17802012
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I say her- it might be him-/
but from a distance I supply the details I prefer.
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178010
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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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1780104
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Jasmine as skeined skins… of liquid hers, by willow courts, the lychee's water wains: as apple-moats flush fawn in russet light, through cherry floats, the leopard-dots of dawn. Branch to branchlet green …
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178076
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Uh oh, the dry cleaning ticket
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177995
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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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177993
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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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177900
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"My Chi felt stimulated."
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177921
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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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177976
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there is a vault in the mountains / that in itself contains infinite vaults
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177966
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They were all sitting naked in a sauna and drinking Diet Coke, with droopy ball sacks and sweat rolling over massive man titties and paunches. Yahweh sat on an upper bench, wearing dark goggles to protect his eyes from the brightness of his own still radi
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17791616
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She’s witnessed her mother’s terror on the day of the hurricane, and she demanded for the first time in her life that her mother do something her mother did not want to do.
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17781211
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I walked to work back then...
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177874
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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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1778167
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177811
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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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177812
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From a window, the young Pole Krzysztof Penderecki saw resistance fighters hanged by Nazis...
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17781512
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Soon enough, October’s ragged/
lawn will hide its deficiencies//
under withered leaves of oak,
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1777100
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It’s been stored away in the cedar chest since my mother put it there in the early 60’s, well, 1962 to be exact. She was a careful woman, but over these many years the bow has flattened, and the wind-up parts have corroded some from non-use. Oh, the
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177732
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fate is an illusion we use to ease the terror of our mortality
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177765
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the names / she carried (within)
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177700
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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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1777136
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I travel over your body with small feet,
reach your heart.
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in our teens as tough as the cold/we wore denim and flannel with our boots/kicking at whichever wind blew . . .
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17771512
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A farm girl raised on fresh eggs and weather forecasts...
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Mosaics are a trick of the eye, seeming
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